Comments on: One More Thing For Women To Worry About

By: Venomous Kate

Venomous Kate — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 04:05:07 +0000

Well, as Heinlein says, “It’s all gray in the dark.”

By: twoma

twoma — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 04:02:19 +0000

Turn the lights out when you are in bed. It’s all in both of your heads from that point on.

By: Venomous Kate

Venomous Kate — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:11:07 +0000

Well, let me just say (now that I’ve calmed down a bit), when I read VH this list of things women are told to do by the magazine/entertainment industry in order to be declared attractive, he said — and I quote —

“Damn straight!”

I would like to go on the record now as saying that VH is in continued good health. Surprisingly.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:20:52 +0000

Out of curiosity, who says women have to worry about all those things? I doubt guys care (I don’t…well, the hairy thing is kinda yewwww, but that’s a personal preference). I always thought that Cosmo was more sexist than any skin mag…maybe I was right?

By: Mind of Mog

Mind of Mog — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:47:32 +0000

Worries…

As if I didn’t have enough to worry about, here’s more. Kate has the definitive and rather long list of things of concern to women. It means more as one gets older. At my age the list is positively depressing. Although I do look much young…

By: Venomous Kate

Venomous Kate — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:23:12 +0000

I can take Photoshop and enhance a photo to the point that nobody could possibly look that good. Artificial standards of “beauty” are no less false for being in print - they change with popular culture.

Then again, there's the "mathematically perfect woman." (Scroll down. Waaaaay down.)

By: wg

wg — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:00:16 +0000

Yeah, besides, it tickles.

I still say the list is crap. I can take Photoshop and enhance a photo to the point that nobody could possibly look that good. Artificial standards of “beauty” are no less false for being in print – they change with popular culture.

And yes, Kate – my other half is lovely, but about half of my library of images of her are pictures that will never see the light of day regardless of how much work I put into it with Photoshop, simply because she didn’t like how it turned out or the light wasn’t right. Photos, like standards, aren’t about reality.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:44:12 +0000

The list explains why it takes so freaking long for a woman to get ready to go out on a date. Yeesh. Though, I must admit, a woman with a hairier upper lip than me is a definite turn-off

By: Venomous Kate

Venomous Kate — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:24:20 +0000

Which was kind of the point, Teresa. Women’s magazines try to convince women that men care about that long, long list. Men, as the guys above have shown, could not care less.

Curiously, I can’t help noticing that female readers responded by first comparing themselves to the list, then rejecting it.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:15:25 +0000

Actually nk…. it’s a list that women created trying to outdo other women.

Considering most of the women I know who are happily married, not a single one would have a husband at all if she was judged by the list above.

As for me – I don’t care to compete with other women. I’m just me – take it or leave it.