What ever happened to feminism

[Aonz]

Originally posted by BlockHead

Tell me, why do women put so much into their vanity? That applies to their legs, breasts, body shape, clothing, intelligence, sophistication, purity, innocence, morality, etc.

 

Women are more vain than men because of the relentless pressure on women to maintain their appearance at a certain high standard. Women do not simply have faces, as men do; they are identified with their faces. Men have a naturalistic relation to their faces. Certainly they care whether they are good-looking or not. They suffer over acne, protruding ears, tiny eyes; they hate getting bald. But there is much wider latitude in what is aesthetically acceptable in a man’s face than what is in a woman’s. A man’s face is defined as something he basically doesn’t need to tamper with; all he has to do is keep it clean. He can avail himself of the options for ornament supplied by nature: a beard, a moustache, longer or shorted hair. But he is not supposed to disguise himself. What he is “really” like is supposed to show. A man lives through his face; it records the progressive stages of his life. Even scars are often not felt to be unattractive: they too can add “character” to a man’s face. But lines of aging, any scar, even a small birthmark on a woman’s face, are always regarded as unfortunate blemishes. A woman’s face is the canvas upon which she paints a revised, corrected portrait of herself. One of the rules of this creation is that the face not show what it doesn’t want to show. He face is an emblem, an icon, a flag. How she arranges her hair, the type of make-up she uses, the quality of her complexion-all these are signs, not of what she is “really” like, but of how she asks to be treated by others, especially men.

 

 

The last time I checked, women still prefer the hot guys when given an option.

 

Women are considered by most societies to be maximally eligible in early youth, after which their sexual value drops steadily, even young women feel themselves in a desperate race against the calendar. They are old as soon as they are no longer very young. Men have little reason to anticipate trouble because of aging. What makes men desirable to women is by no means tied to youth. On the contrary, getting older tends (for several decades) to operate in men’s favour, since their value as lovers and husbands is set more by what they do than how they look. Many men have more success romantically at forty than they did at twenty or twenty-five; fame, money, and, above all, power are sexually enhancing.