Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-satan!clayton From: clayton@satan.DEC Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Female Attractiveness Message-ID: <1622@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Apr-85 13:06:23 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.1622 Posted: Thu Apr 11 13:06:23 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Apr-85 02:29:48 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 52 >Sharon Badian ihnp4!hocsp!ahutb!seb > > Being attractive to men takes up a lot of a woman's time >and energy... > I used to wear makeup... > I used to buy lots of new funky clothes... > I don't diet the way I used to... Hear, Hear. I, too, do not have the time, nor the desire, to to even attempt to look like America's ideal woman. I have never worn makeup. I haven't shaved my legs in over 10 years. (Although I do shave my pits, for MY own comfort). I can't (women's fashions are not made or designed for women over 6 feet tall) and don't want to buy funky new clothes. I satisfy myself with functional, COMFORTABLE (often "mens") clothing. I have only been on a 'diet' once. At 6'1/2", 150 pounds sits pretty well, a little plump round the middle but that's just me. And, I will add, mousey brown hair that has yet to meet a curling iron and only has a very rare meeting with a hair drier. Occassionally I get these little voices in the back of my head saying things like: "don't you wish you had more fashionalbe clothes" and "you'd look a lot better with a little makeup around those eyes"... So far I have resisted these voices, planted there by advertisers, recognizing them for what they are: the media's (tv esp.) continual barage of hype working its way up from the unconscience to the conscience. And I root it out. Reassure myself that I am perfectly happy and much more comfortable the way I am, and would not be so if I got caught up in this striving to be some marketing agents ideal consumer. Which is what it is. It is EXPENSIVE to be 'beautiful'. >...We should strive >for bodies that respond well to today's world, will remain healthy And there's the problem. In today's world most of us don't need to be in all that great a shape to walk out to the car to drive to work, to take the elevator up to our office, where we sit at a desk all day. So many of us let ourselves get slack (I definately include myself here) and don't take the time to get the exercise we need to stay in shape. Particularly in the winter (at least, New England winters). In the summer it's not much of a problem, the hiking, biking, swimming etc. keep me in shape. If only I had an indoor pool in my basement for those long winter months... Elizabeth Clayton ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-satan!clayton