On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Susannah Rosenberg wrote:
> > To some degree men and women try to make themselves "desirable" to the
> > gender they are intrested in... Other then the statement being
> > hetrosexist what is wrong with this assumption?
>
> Because it's incorrect, and traditionally the burden of 'desireability'
> is on females.
>
> Not everyone tries to make themselves desirable to those they're
> sexually interested in; at least, not consciously.
Some of us have made a deliberate point of being OUTSIDE as much of the
norms as possible *because* we didn't like the sexist attention. Thus, I
don't even think the statement that we optimize for attractiveness is
true. (Unless, of course, you consider that I was deliberately trying to
alienate the one group....)
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And the tigers are getting hungry." -- Winston Churchill
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