The amount of rationalization in this thread is disturbing me. Seriously… apply equally? How many dresses do you have? How many shoes? How many shampoos? Skin care products? Do you regularly shave your arms and legs? Did you ever try to wax any part of your body, and do you have any idea how it feels? Were you ever seriously concerned that the tips of your hair were splitting ever-so-slightly and you must do something about that? Do you want me to go on?
The amount of rationalization in this thread is disturbing me.
What do you think I’m rationalizing?
How many dresses do you have? How many shampoos? Skin care products? Do you regularly shave your arms and legs? Did you ever try to wax any part of your body, and do you have any idea how it feels? Were you ever seriously concerned that the tips of your hair were splitting ever-so-slightly and you must do something about that?
You’ve displayed a severe lack of synthesis here. What you should have been thinking about were analogous items that a male would possess for sex appeal. You’re seriously trying to make a point by asking me how many dresses I own? Obviously I own none, and obviously that does not speak at all to the amount of effort I exert trying to impress women. I also own precisely zero skirts, zero bras, and zero tampons!
To my knowledge, a male’s sex appeal is not significantly improved by most of the items you’ve gone to the trouble of listing. I’ve never felt that I would be more sexy if my legs, armpits, etc. were waxed (although I have plucked my unibrow a few times). Nor, with the exception of acne control, do I think skin care products would increase the average man’s sex appeal.
You’ve apparently failed to accurately conceptualize the idea of sex appeal. When I brought this up, rather than ask for apparently relevant or informative information (how much money will I spend on a date? how nice is my watch, jacket, car, apartment, etc? how much effort will I actually go to in order to seduce a woman or get laid? do i wear deodorant/cologne? do i use contact lenses? how often do i shave? how much do i care about hygiene? what kinds of clothes do i wear? what is my job?), you came asking about how many dresses I own and whether I regularly shave my legs, etc.
Seriously… apply equally?
Male sex appeal is quite different than female sex appeal, but there is a common ground. Clothing, hair (dye, rogaine, plugs, transplant, cutting and grooming), diet and exercise fall inside that common ground.
In a vacuous sense of the word, all organs are reproductive organs and you can feasibly claim that your job and apartment are part of your seduction routine, just like Bill Clinton’s job and apartment were. But can you somehow delineate “seduction-related” activities from “other” activities and somehow make men and women spend the same amount of effort on “seduction-related”, without making “other” an empty set? Try it! I don’t think you will succeed. For example, any reasonable delineation would classify work time as non-seduction-related, which instantly skews the ratio towards women.
My figure’s no good for a dress, but I do have more than one good-sized closet full of clothes.
How many shoes?
Due to a condition, I mostly just wear sneakers. However, I do have a couple of other pairs of shoes for when it’s really important to look good or match an outfit.
How many shampoos?
I have one, which is as many as my wife has. How many do you need? I did an evaluation of which shampoo works best with my hair several years ago, and technology really hasn’t advanced enough in the past decade and a half to bother re-evaluating Pantene Pro-V (though knock-off brands do perform just about as well). I also use the same brand of conditioner, and a couple different kinds of hair product.
Do you regularly shave your arms and legs?
Not anymore. Cutting oneself shaving is an avenue for infection, and I’ve had problems with skin infection in my legs. Also, my hair grows too quickly so I have serious stubble just a couple hours after shaving. Armpits, though, are a must.
Did you ever try to wax any part of your body, and do you have any idea how it feels?
Yes. Really not impressed with the performance as compared to depilatory creams, which are much less painful.
Did you ever dye your hair?
No way. That’s terrible for your hair. I have tried colored gels, but haven’t found any that really work with my color.
Were you ever seriously concerned that the tips of your hair were splitting ever-so-slightly and you must do something about that?
Yes, but it’s always a cost-benefit analysis, as I don’t want to cut my hair shorter than I have to, and Pantene does a decent job of ‘repairing’ those sorts of problems, to some extent.
Drawing any statistical conclusions from your answer would be invalid because you have self-selected to reply to me. A reply from PeterS, or lack thereof, would be more meaningful, but it still wouldn’t outweigh the data about men I know personally.
Clothing, haircut, diet and aerobics apply equally to men as well, and waxing has shaving as a counterpart.
Also, do you have figures on what percentage of women undergo liposuction? Or tan regularly?
Seems to me that all you’ve done is generalized from a couple cliches.
The amount of rationalization in this thread is disturbing me. Seriously… apply equally? How many dresses do you have? How many shoes? How many shampoos? Skin care products? Do you regularly shave your arms and legs? Did you ever try to wax any part of your body, and do you have any idea how it feels? Were you ever seriously concerned that the tips of your hair were splitting ever-so-slightly and you must do something about that? Do you want me to go on?
What do you think I’m rationalizing?
You’ve displayed a severe lack of synthesis here. What you should have been thinking about were analogous items that a male would possess for sex appeal. You’re seriously trying to make a point by asking me how many dresses I own? Obviously I own none, and obviously that does not speak at all to the amount of effort I exert trying to impress women. I also own precisely zero skirts, zero bras, and zero tampons!
To my knowledge, a male’s sex appeal is not significantly improved by most of the items you’ve gone to the trouble of listing. I’ve never felt that I would be more sexy if my legs, armpits, etc. were waxed (although I have plucked my unibrow a few times). Nor, with the exception of acne control, do I think skin care products would increase the average man’s sex appeal.
You’ve apparently failed to accurately conceptualize the idea of sex appeal. When I brought this up, rather than ask for apparently relevant or informative information (how much money will I spend on a date? how nice is my watch, jacket, car, apartment, etc? how much effort will I actually go to in order to seduce a woman or get laid? do i wear deodorant/cologne? do i use contact lenses? how often do i shave? how much do i care about hygiene? what kinds of clothes do i wear? what is my job?), you came asking about how many dresses I own and whether I regularly shave my legs, etc.
Male sex appeal is quite different than female sex appeal, but there is a common ground. Clothing, hair (dye, rogaine, plugs, transplant, cutting and grooming), diet and exercise fall inside that common ground.
In a vacuous sense of the word, all organs are reproductive organs and you can feasibly claim that your job and apartment are part of your seduction routine, just like Bill Clinton’s job and apartment were. But can you somehow delineate “seduction-related” activities from “other” activities and somehow make men and women spend the same amount of effort on “seduction-related”, without making “other” an empty set? Try it! I don’t think you will succeed. For example, any reasonable delineation would classify work time as non-seduction-related, which instantly skews the ratio towards women.
This seems to mistreat the Evolutionary-Cognitive Boundary.
Thanks, you’re right. Good catch. The whole discussion is off track.
My figure’s no good for a dress, but I do have more than one good-sized closet full of clothes.
Due to a condition, I mostly just wear sneakers. However, I do have a couple of other pairs of shoes for when it’s really important to look good or match an outfit.
I have one, which is as many as my wife has. How many do you need? I did an evaluation of which shampoo works best with my hair several years ago, and technology really hasn’t advanced enough in the past decade and a half to bother re-evaluating Pantene Pro-V (though knock-off brands do perform just about as well). I also use the same brand of conditioner, and a couple different kinds of hair product.
Not anymore. Cutting oneself shaving is an avenue for infection, and I’ve had problems with skin infection in my legs. Also, my hair grows too quickly so I have serious stubble just a couple hours after shaving. Armpits, though, are a must.
Yes. Really not impressed with the performance as compared to depilatory creams, which are much less painful.
No way. That’s terrible for your hair. I have tried colored gels, but haven’t found any that really work with my color.
Yes, but it’s always a cost-benefit analysis, as I don’t want to cut my hair shorter than I have to, and Pantene does a decent job of ‘repairing’ those sorts of problems, to some extent.
Was there a point to these questions?
Drawing any statistical conclusions from your answer would be invalid because you have self-selected to reply to me. A reply from PeterS, or lack thereof, would be more meaningful, but it still wouldn’t outweigh the data about men I know personally.