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Re: Femininity eh?? | |
Posted By: Jillybean | Date: 1/11/07 10:42 a.m. |
In Response To: Femininity eh?? (N1NJ4) : Femininity and weakness are necessarily intertwined, simply because of what : they are. Hopefully I won't get in too much trouble for this, but look at : it from a human nature standpoint. Historically (I mean really : historically) men have been responsible for fighting. It is hardly : coincidence either. Testosterone is a great thing to have a lot of if you : are going to be fighting in a war. Generally in war (less so with today's : technology) the biggest and the strongest are the best fighters, and women : are just not genetically inclined to being the biggest and the strongest. : Because of this, and god knows what else, big strong women aren't : popularly considered to be particularly attractive. It is less of an issue : of how the game portrays the women, than what our society expects of them. : Traditionally, the traits of a warrior are male, while female traits are : decidedly not so. As a fighter, today's concepts of femininity are very : much undesirable, although changes in society are making this decreasingly : true. Okay - if we were sitting in a room together I'd be able to laugh with you and hopefully point out that I'm not angry with you, I just disagree. Strongly. Femininity and weakness are necessarily intertwined, simply because of what they are.
If you're talking about flowers and skirts and thin bodies I can kind of see where you're coming from. But if I wore three inch stilettos today and did flame spectroscopy in my lab. I don't want to come off as a stereotype, but just because I wear flowers does not make me a weak person. And yes, I'm small, but I've been in fights and I've thrown punches (not just at other girls either - hazard of drinking in Glasgow) If feminine is merely a declaration of strength, then you can define a lot of men as feminine. If by feminine you mean loving babies and animals and flirting - attitude as opposed to appearances - then you're equally misguided. Flirting and sexiness is something very different from 'femininity. It's the expression of a need that is present in all humans, regardles of gender, as primal as hunger. Flirting is a social interaction that frequently means nothing. As for the babies and cute animals thing - there's no shame or weakness in compassion, and you've heard the lengths mothers will go to to protect their children - is that weakness?
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