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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-05-13 06:40 pm

[ SECRET POST #3052 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3050 ⌋

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[Falcon Densetsu/F-Zero GP Legends]


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(Stephen Paul Manderson aka Professor Green, Never Mind the Buzzcocks)


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[Elysium]


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[Jeremy Renner]















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Re: Double standards

(Anonymous) 2015-05-13 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
No way, women have vocally preferred body hair to no body hair, tattoos to no tattoos, muscular builds or skinnier, facial hair or no facial hair etc etc for ages. How are any of these not socially acceptable?

Height stands out among these as the one thing that nobody can change, which is why it gets fired at so much.

Re: Double standards

(Anonymous) 2015-05-13 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Some of those 'to's should be 'or's, I meant these are examples of preferences that lots of women vocally have which are accepted as normal.
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Re: Double standards

[personal profile] ariakas 2015-05-13 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I've heard men say, verbatim, that desirable women don't have physical preferences, only sluts do. Moreover, in almost every piece of media out there the hot girl is supposed to "see past" any unattractive male protagonist's physical faults for the real him, and this behavior is lionized for women (whereas male characters are never supposed to do the opposed; if a woman is ugly, ew, gross). It's bad for women to be shallow, and nice hot girls don't care about men's looks. Whereas men "can't help it" because it's "biology" or they're "visual."

I mean it's all bullshit; we're all visual, and we all have physical preferences, but the gist of the argument is that height is the "acceptable" physical preference because height = masculinity = dominance = something nice, good, desirable, feminine women should want. It's the sole weapon in the arsenal of any woman who wants to make a counter attack against the seemingly infinite ordnance men have to lob at them: too tall, too short, legs not long enough, ass not big enough, ass too big, breasts too small, breasts too big, breasts saggy, breasts fake, short-haired, brown-haired, dyed-haired, cellulite, too much muscle, not enough tone, too fat, not enough curves, any body hair whatsoever, body hair stubble from removing it, areolas too big, areolas too dark, vulva not the ideal shape, gunt, pooch, cankles, man abs, being any age over 21.... ....and so on, forever.

But yeah, the solution is to overturn the idea that we don't have visual preferences, and make people aware of how fucking shitty being judged for all the shit is all the time, as opposed to clutching desperately at the one retort available: HAH SHORT GUY.