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Thursday, July 22, 2010

prelude

as a prelude to the sexuality module I might be taking this coming sem, Jia wen wrote something on facebook which got me thinking....(which is happening less these days thanks to the holidays)

In any case, she has this quote which says "Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves and of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys, they will be walking around naked."

There are many assumptions that are going to be make in the following. But just humour me? Kinda fun twisting logic in a very twisted way.

Let's assume that human kind dress themselves up to attract attention. Like how the male birds will be more colourful than the females so as to attract a mate and hopefully get laid (and then lay many eggs). Say, if going by that above quote - if girls dress up for ourselves and for other girls, then who are we attracting exactly?

You follow?

In any case, we are either i) very egotistical because we think the world to ourselves and dress up to impress upon others about our character or ii) we are attracting attention, not from the boys, but from the girls.

Then of course, implies that all women actually desire to be with other women - which may not be the case isn't it?

Maybe we don't think each other in the erotic sense. Well, many years ago, marriage and sex was a separate issue. People marry for the sake of family, connections, resources and procreation. While sex was for lovers, entertainment, pleasure. In past, 'spouse' and 'love' were seperate institutions. Today, 'love' and 'spouse' are synonymous. Discovery Channel says women were built to cheat. Which is why the size of men's testicles is larger than a gorilla, despite being very much smaller than our hairy cousin. Gorillas are absolutely loyal to their mates, while chimpanzees, being very much small in physical size, has much larger testes. That's because they literally, sleep around. So the chances of passing on genes increases when erm....the sperm count increases.

Biology aside, I think it's pretty interesting that homo sapiens sapiens (yes, we've upgraded ourselves. It means VERY wise man in latin now. Although I still dispute over the wise part of the taxonomy), are the only species as far as I know, where the FEMALES appear more beautiful and attract attention from MALES.

(we all know the male chicken is prettier than the hen)

Think about it...

Of course, we may never know the true answers to things. However, the truth is only as much as other people believing in it, and right now, the truth is that women still dress up in hopes of catching attention, or hiding her flaws so that the attention is favourable. It has been for centuries, and it is here to stay in this century. So perhaps, we ask ourselves - why? If the men can't care less about what clothes a woman's wearing since it's what's underneath that they are really interested in. Then who are we REALLY dressing up for?

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of course, i'm assuming that clothes do not have social meanings behind it. Dressing up, dress codes, clothing, attire...they are all part of our social identity. I wonder if anyone has studied this at all?

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