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  • Can Western ideals of female "beauty" become any more phony?

    Inspired by the Hooters lawsuit thread, allow me to rant on a little here.

    What kind of idealised image of women is it we are mostly presented with in print media, TV, movies, advertising, porn etc. these days? To me, more and more, it's not a pleasant image. In fact it's becoming repulsive.

    I'd like to think I'm not alone in this, but sadly from lately browsing through some "babe threads" and observing what other people present as their "perfect beauties", I start to feel that my idea of what constitutes female beauty is more uncommon than I had thought and hoped.

    I don't like big, unshapely, ridiculous-looking breast implants.
    I don't like extreme amounts of make up, applied in all the wrong places, to make the woman look as slutty and fake as possible, at least to my eyes.
    I don't like artificial solarium tans that make the girls look like they have some incurable skin disease.
    I don't like bleached hair, arranged in stupid looking fashions.
    I don't like overly worked out bodies that are muscular and have coarse features that make them appear not at all feminine.
    I also don't like the way some are obviosly starving themselves bordering on the pathological, making their elbows, shoulders, knees and hips stick out from the rest of the body. I'm not talking anorexics, just the general trend here.
    I don't like cosmetic surgery and lip implants.
    I don't like tattoos.
    I don't like piercings in other places than the ear lobes.



    I like more natural looking women. Not fakes. That's not to say that all cosmetic enhancements in the wider sense of the term are bad, not at all, it's just that some of the complaints listed above are becoming much too extreme and prevalent in our mainstream culture. At least for my liking.

    That's why, more and more, I'm looking to Japan and other places outside the Western sphere of influence, "beauty"-wise, for a little eye candy and light entertainment...

    Discuss, and thanks for listening.

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      I don't like big, unshapely, ridiculous-looking breast implants.

      i agree.

      I don't like extreme amounts of make up, applied in all the wrong places, to make the woman look as slutty and fake as possible, at least to my eyes.

      i agree.

      I don't like artificial solarium tans that make the girls look like they have some incurable skin disease.

      i agree.

      I don't like bleached hair, arranged in stupid looking fashions.

      i agree.

      I don't like overly worked out bodies that are muscular and have coarse features that make them appear not at all feminine.

      i agree.

      I also don't like the way some are obviosly starving themselves bordering on the pathological, making their elbows, shoulders, knees and hips stick out from the rest of the body. I'm not talking anorexics, just the general trend here.

      i agree.

      I don't like cosmetic surgery and lip implants.

      i agree.

      I don't like tattoos.

      i agree.

      I don't like piercings in other places than the ear lobes.

      whoa, hold on a second there. i've seen many quite attractive females with their noses pierced.

      That's why, more and more, I'm looking to Japan and other places outside the Western sphere of influence, "beauty"-wise, for a little eye candy and light entertainment...

      whoa, hold on there... this is starting sound almost like yellow fever, exoticism, and orientalism...
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        I'm guessing if you're looking at Japan, straight white teeth aren't part of your wish list for beauty.
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        • #5
          you forgot to mention you don't like women at all
          In da butt.
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            Thats blackice your thinking of.
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            • #7
              Japan is outside the Western sphere of influence? What the hell...
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              • #8
                they're not caucasian, but they're close enough.

                they're almost white, but still exotic.

                orientalism, yellow fever, exoticism.
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by DanS
                  Japan is outside the Western sphere of influence? What the hell...


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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by DanS
                    Japan is outside the Western sphere of influence? What the hell...
                    I said "beauty"-wise. And it was just as an example.

                    Kontiki needs to shut up.

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                    • #11
                      That's so pretty.
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                      • #12
                        You'll have to look elsewhere than Japan there, take a look at some anime and you'll see a lot of what ya just mentioned.
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                        • #13
                          That's so pretty.

                          100% American woman.
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                          • #14
                            I like how the arms are under the boobs in Tass's pic
                            To us, it is the BEAST.

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                            • #15
                              I like more natural looking women.
                              Does that include shaving???
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