Comments on: A Not-So-Gorgeous Observation

By: Scholastica

Scholastica — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:44:35 +0000

Vickie,
I agree totally with you too. The men body is also interesting as women’s. But women so often jealous towards others so the negative statements come out from their mouth to cover their jealousy for what they do not have but she does.

By: Z

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:56:17 +0000

Heh, I agree with you. For some reason, female public figures are almost always judged by how they look, while male ones are usually only so if their look is somehow out of the ordinary. And this is so much more frequent than people seem to understand. And also, for some reason, people fail to understand why this is a problem.

Ugh, this reminded me of a silly article (that pissed my dad off. Go dad!) around some sport event. The article was about an athlete lady (I think it was high jump, but AMG I’m straying from topic now) and about half of it was spent describing how pretty she looked, with very little space reserved for her actual performance.

Ace blog in general btw ^__^

By: fyzal

fyzal — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:55:45 +0000

erm.. i think somehow, at one point of view, male and female is quite similar – because sex and gender are two different things.. person might be “male” in “sex” but “female” when it comes to “gender”.. hardly to understand right?

By: Vickie

Vickie — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:18:12 +0000

I disagree. The male body can also be very sexualised if we try.

By: Arwen

Arwen — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:18:30 +0000

Women are catty.

By: kenwooi

kenwooi — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:57:35 +0000

i think there are more stuffs to talk about when it comes to ladies..
there are a lot of category when commenting on ladies..
but for men – it’s either handsome or douche.. probably nice abs too..
for ladies, there’s the buttock, boobs, waist, eyes, lips, hair and the list goes on..
thats why ladies get more variety of comments..

By: Vickie

Vickie — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:32:27 +0000

But putting your sexuality aside, would you feel the same way about men who smoke? Why do women who smoke (and let’s assume they’re not pregnant, not going to get pregnant and won’t smoke when they’re pregnant) carry a heavier stigma, while men who do that are just “being men”?

By: JoeTaxpayer

JoeTaxpayer — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:38:27 +0000

I understand people are attracted to beautiful women, a woman’s beauty changes over time, I mean over the centuries. In the middle ages, paintings of beautiful women were full-figured, what today is called chubby.
To me, intelligence is an attraction. 1 IQ point worth about 25 milli-Helens. (A milli-Helen being the unit of beauty sufficient to launch one ship, named after Helen of Troy.) A woman who smokes, loses more than looks or IQ can even make up.

By: Tara

Tara — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:16:22 +0000

Good points. I can’t really think of any reasons why this is the case except for the fact that . . . well, I dunno. I want to say maybe women are more sensitive so they take these comments as insults, whereas men might brush the same comments about them aside, so nothing is really said about it.

Then again, what I’m thinking currently probably makes no sense. I shouldn’t be commenting on blogs these late at night . . .

But you are right. It sucks. It is double standards. Personally, I think people should stop obsessing over looks, but that’s easier said than done! Me included.

By: Vickie

Vickie — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:59:26 +0000

Have to admit that I am one of those “They shouldn’t put themselves out there if they can’t handle criticism!” types. Not just with women, though.

To me it depends on whether the criticism is relevant. Why is a woman’s physical appearance or fashion sense always of so much importance and interest, regardless of who she is, where she is? Why does it matter if a model is the stupidest person on Earth? Why are both men and women so harsh on women? Why aren’t men getting the same treatment? It’s the double standards between the two main sexes that madden me the most.