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⌈ Secret Post #757 ⌋

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Uh, no. I don't. Re-read the post, and you'll see that I've said as much already.

I saw that, which made it all the more confusin that your opening statement is generalizing your experience to other girls on the internet.

Which is... really, I'm sorry, but I don't think your experience is very common.

It's not, actually. What I'm saying is that I think that this might be true for a certain percentage of young girls, given my own experience, as well as the tendency that I've noticed for teenage heterosexual girls to crush on boys with a prettier/feminine/less threatening appearance, and to move on to liking more masculine faces as they get older.

When I say a "not-insignificant percentage", I don't mean all. I don't mean a majority. I don't mean half. I don't even mean a third. :) I just mean a not-insignificant percentage (like, 1 to 10% maybe, rather than an insignificant percentage like .005%). And I say that I think this, not that I know this. And I also say that I could be completely wrong in thinking that there's even that percentage, and that my experience could be completely unique to me.

And you're entitled to think that my experience is quite uncommon. I'm open to the idea that it's quite uncommon. *shrugs* But I think the labels we ascribe to ourselves when we're young aren't always the labels we ascribe to ourselves when we're older. Once again, I could be the only person in the entire world who changed her conception of her own sexuality as she aged. I'm cool with that, if it's true. I kind of doubt that it is, though.

Not insignifcant means a significant percentage. I agree that the labels we ascribe to ourselves when we're young don't always stick and I'm sure you're not the only person who has changed the conception of your sexuality - but to posit that women like "prettyboys" because they find men threatening and are questioning without any kind of substanting evidence is kind of outrageous.

I just really don't think that interest in prettyboys indicates some pathological distrust of men, and even if it does, shouldn't that take a backseat to plain old interests in aesthetics? That whole statement also plays into really conventional ideas of men and women, too, hence my pretty violent reaction to it.

Well... for one thing, I didn't say women liked pretty boys for those reasons, I said that I think some teenage girls might. It's just casual speculation, not a comprehensive scientific study. Also, it seems like you're perceiving an all-or-nothing, declarative tone that I don't think is present in my posts.

What it comes down to, I guess, is that I'm not gonna do a couple hours of literature search to see if my idle spec is backed up by dozens of reputable psychological studies. You're welcome to do that, if you like. Again, though, I'd look for at least twenty or thirty when and if you do because, at least in the biomedical sciences, you can usually find a paper saying anything you want. It's important to get a broad range of scientific opinion on any topic before coming to any solid theory, much less one that you'd want to state as fact in an argument.

The mouse is hardly the first person to posit that many young girls are attracted to non-threatening, not too 'masculine' men, though. Disney and the pop music industry have been playing on this idea for decades.

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