Comments | demonlurking: rational people ... supply shortage?

demonlurking

rational people ... supply shortage?

Feb 18, 2003 13:15

warning, this may turn into something of a rant...
Edit: oh, it so did ...so, for those of you who have been so buried in work, or who haven't bothered to look out a window or at a news report, pgh got snow. a lot of snow. (but only for pgh, DC got light 3 ft.) i noticed something during my trek to work for the past two days ( Read more... )

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wanderingpixie February 18 2003, 12:06:20 UTC

"when did humanity decide that fashion was more important than common sense?"

It'd be cynical to suggest that it was around the time that someone decided that a magazine names "Sports Illustrated" needed a swimsuit issue (specifically, one that doesn't focus on sport suits), wouldn't it ( ... )

wanderingpixie February 18 2003, 13:17:00 UTC

In a general, societal sense, how women look has almost always been more important than what they think and how they act.

Just to clarify, I don't mean to imply that this is completely due to guys. We do it to ourselves and each other, too.

blk March 7 2003, 09:06:21 UTC

... corsets from Elizabethan times. Those things actually caused womens' internal organs to get moved around (in the extreme circumstances)!

I'm a little late responding here, but I wanted to point out some of what I feel is inaccurate hype. Proper corsetry is restrictive, but not unhealthy or dangerous. Sure, tightlacing does move organs around, but then again, so does walking, sitting, and stretching. The most extremely tightened corset does not move things out of place more than late-term pregnancy does (and from experience with both, I'll tell you that the 9th month is MUCH more uncomfortable).

A tight corset will eventually change the shape of the ribcage, but that is still not dangerous (or even painful) as long as it is done gradually and carefully.

zagthaar February 18 2003, 15:05:32 UTC

Having never subscribed to the "fashion over function" school, I don't get it either. Yes, I get dressed up and wear less-than-sensible shoes to go out to dinner on special occasions; but I also know, in those cases, that I'm not going to be slogging through knee-deep snow unless something goes drastically wrong with the HVAC system {g ( ... )

ka3ytl February 18 2003, 18:42:57 UTC

Some of it to some degree could be that they don't have more appropriate attire. I sort of had that problem with shoes. I have my hiking boots which aren't all that waterproof. I have my "mining boots" which are waterproof to some degree I believe (but are currently somewhere) and then I have shoes that are not appropriate.

I wore the hiking boots out, but they got pretty wet. I still haven't found the "mining boots". Luckily, I ended up at my parents and my mom gave me a pair of her black winter boots.

*shrug* I just never really thought about it since I generally don't need them.