The hairlessness and the muscleness are biological. Well, the muscle is. We (women) see a musceled man and it appeals to our baby-making instincts because we know he is virile, healthy and can protect us and harvest grain. I was going to put forth the argument that hairlessness makes a man think that a woman is young and thus young 'enough' to bear his child, but then if you don't have any pubic hair, you're too young to bear children, innit? But I don't think this same biological instinct exists with men, because instinctively we find someone attractive who has big eyes, big lips.. actually very child-like/babyish facial proportions, but then also we like big boobs.
Another interesting point, you know how women always do smoky eyes, and that's supposed to be very sexy? It's actually done to mimic 'bedroom' eyes at the height of orgasm, when your muscles relax and your eyelids drop a little, making it look like your eyes are closed. I learned this all from John Cleese, actually.
Well, these are the kinds of explanations I'm trying to problematize :P
Because what if a woman (or girl) cannot bear children, or does not desire men? This is what I meant by gender being relational. By establishing an ideal male identity based on a response to certain physical attributes, (in this case, muscleness,) it leaves out many people.
I've heard that blood does a good job of acting as make-up, (internally, that is,) and make-up works best when it enhances or exaggerates where it shows through.
Trevor, in my 4 years as a political science student all I've ever done is been given answers and I create questions out of them. In my final 2 months as a student I'm in rebellion mode and refuse to create anymore problems... ONLY EXPLANATIONS!
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Another interesting point, you know how women always do smoky eyes, and that's supposed to be very sexy? It's actually done to mimic 'bedroom' eyes at the height of orgasm, when your muscles relax and your eyelids drop a little, making it look like your eyes are closed. I learned this all from John Cleese, actually.
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Because what if a woman (or girl) cannot bear children, or does not desire men? This is what I meant by gender being relational. By establishing an ideal male identity based on a response to certain physical attributes, (in this case, muscleness,) it leaves out many people.
I've heard that blood does a good job of acting as make-up, (internally, that is,) and make-up works best when it enhances or exaggerates where it shows through.
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