Women's 'issues'
 

Why is it that we're contantly being led to believe that women are in total control of their lives, can effectively juggle careers, kids, lazy husbands etc. and are in all important respects the superior sex when they worry so much about the size, shape and appearance of their bodies? We're told they don't care what we think yet their behaviour indicates otherwise as they search endlessly for the cure for cellulite or the correct bra size. Apparently they only do this to feel good about themselves but then complain when men express their preferences.

We're told us guys only think of one thing yet it appears women spend much of their lives worry about pretty much the same thing. Maybe we aren't so different after all....


Oh and yes we did watch yet another documentary about women issues last night.......

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I did used to think it was men's fault in that the only voiced opinion of men was that women should have an hourglass figure with blonde hair and big boobs. However in the last few years (10-15 especially) is that contra-opinions have become more prominent. You have the the phrase which was made famous by American pie (google Stiffler's mom), and the chubby chasers, and now even red hair has become sexy (whereas ginger males are still regarded as freaks). Men have gone as far as they can in saying many women contra to old-opinion are beautiful.

However, even with that, women still try and tell themselves differently. Its not an image issue, its a mental one. The current women's issue is the size 0. I can't find anyone who finds it in the least bit attractive, and even women's magazines point to size 0 women and say how hideous they can be with bony feet or shoulders, but it doesn't matter. Large section of female society are obsessed with it. Like with anorexics who make themselves more hideous thinking they are on the path to beauty, its entirely an mental issue.

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Agree - A thorough and exhaustive analysis of my very beautiful and shapely young wife has revealed one major fact - she can receive and instantly forget a thousand genuine compliments yet remember vividly forever just one even remotely unflattering remark..... Rather than concentrating on the myriad of examples of her beauty, she worries about that one tiny blemish ....



How odd... :confused:

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Get used to it, it's the way it is, sadly. I can't really offer much to this discussion, so i'll just be reading.

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Why do you think us sensible ones shave it off ;)

Still look like a freak; it's just got nothing to do with the hair :D

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Did you by any chance have a part in Game On ;):D

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I went for the part, but Samantha Janus beat me to it :D

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But shes not a Ginger tos........ :D

I hadnt got you down as wanting to be in drag ;)

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Look, I'm really ugly either way - at least drag makes it ironic :)

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Women have issues about their looks because the world in general STILL relies on a person's looks as a form of snap judgment.Also I've had more adverse comments on my looks from other women than from men-completely unasked for I may add.:mad:

Mind I think the men are all busy looking at the fit females on the other side of the street so they just don't notice me at all.;)

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They are looking at your reflection in the windows opposite, trying to be subtle.......;)

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Stop giving away our secrets.

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I think you'll find most young men these days are looking at themselves in the shop window ;)

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I rememnber when i was dating (before the ball and chain :D) and when asked by women what was more important to me i would say personality and they laughed. I think women have a problem maybe it is because of the media that does seem to love playing on the insecurites of women but one thing i am sure of now it is not because men say this or that. It is a curse i think women have to live with in this day and age and wish them luck with it. Personally i have a podge am not exactly brad pitt and i really couldn't care less i am happy as i am and i would have to give up too much bacon to be any other way so it's never gonna happen :D.

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When I was on the singles scene I was told several times by different guys that I had a great personality. Funny how it always seemed to be located below my neck. Oh how I laughed. :D

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That's cause they knew you were ruled by your heart, not your head, so that's what they were looking at....... (honest)


It's our biological imperative, innit? It's what's in our genes that makes us want to get into yours.........;)

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So we are not allowed to appreciate your personality and your other assets?

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...https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2008/03/2.gif Gentlemen have always been welcome to appreciate all my assets, it's those that aren't gentlemen that I objected to. I am sure all you guys are far to well mannered, and brought up, to be anything but exemplary. https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2009/04/4.gif

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You obviously haven't met any of us then :D

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That sounds like a dare!

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...:D

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That sounds like a cue for a piccy to be placed in the members gallery... :erm:

I'm sure we'd all be appreciating away... ;)

In a very well mannered & exemplary fashion... :D

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Thats not just true for women, thats human nature....:(

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You know I have been watching a fair few of these documentaries about folk seeking help for blemishes across the years and the ones that have made me wince are the ones where men think they have too small a penis..Some of them with 6 to 8 inch ones who have penile extensions despite the fact that they are perfectly normal..So I don't think it is purely a women's issue.I think body image issues are far more complex than the male/female divide.:erm:

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length or girth?

Because if it's girth..................

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Behave, do not go down that road, or you may get https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2009/09/9.gif

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Well extension seems to indicate length to me..girth = widening...:erm:

I can understand the chap with less than 3 inches when ready for action wanting to do something about it but when someone is completely normal in size why bother?

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One could always describe one's dimensions in metric.

Cheaper and less painful than surgery (so I've been told...)