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the real question is: how much of the difference in attitudes towards sex between men and women is cultural and how much is innate.
why shouldn't I assume that there are at least some women who feel the same way?
Of course you don't mean this, what you actually DO mean is that nothing SEXUAL should be private and left up to the individuals involved. Only the right kind of sex should be permitted. Apparently the "sexual revolution" was more of a coup. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Is that a serious question? If it is you must be new.
So naturally men are completely honest with them about everything.
(or be Brad Pitt then some women MIGHT pay them).
Yes but since men are losing most of the jobs in this recession I wonder who is going to be available to pay and if prices will collapse due to oversupply.
if they were as skanky as men are (or wish they could be) AND as tolerant of men as men are of women, it might be easier to take. Actually it would be like it is for gay men, everybody fucks everybody and if two people happen to REALLY like each other then they may take it to another level, otherwise they keep on keepin on.
Feminist promoters of "strong athletic women" for one. "It's NO PROBLEM when women get so thin and muscular that their periods stop" (of course the total amount of fat on women collectively, or for that matter men and/or children collectively, would be more than enough to make up for all these missing periods hundred of times over)
how long do you think women will use the conditions of women BEFORE birth control and abortion were legal as a justification for hostile attitudes NOW? Women can separate sex from risk of parenthood, men cannot (at least not without giving up anything that feels like real sex). Why is it that women have so much trouble acknowledging this fact in a straightforward way? Is it: "women have always had the choice between bad sex and no sex so its only fair that men should be in that position too"?
Well, better get to polishing I guess. What else ya gonna do?
If this results in her being unhealthily fat she sure as hell is overeating. You are right though that it is difficult because peoples minds and bodies evolved to perform at the level of elite athletes in an environment where food was scarce. Is there NO MODERN alternative but the 3 pack a day French or the 400lb waddling/scooter riding Americans?
I am certain that men would happily eat ANY diet that would not compromise their health (actually they would do a hell of a lot more than that) if it meant they could fuck anyone they want. Women obviously have entirely different instinctive emotional priorities when it comes to food and sex.
It's not "cultural attitudes towards men" in some general sense, it is ALL about increases in female income. When women were completely dependent on money that men could choose to provide or to withhold for their own and their kids survival many men were tyrants. When the money that the man provides is a luxury not a necessity for the woman many women see the luxury of having everything their own way as worth as much or more than the luxury of his voluntary contributions (some contribution will be involuntary). Of course if she has a REAL hard-on for the guy she might give a crap for other reasons but how often does this happen, or at least how often does it endure over the long term.
yeah men are relevant...in fantasy entertainment and in Congress, in real life for average people not so much. OF COURSE the word "irrelevant" is an exaggeration. Nannies, mechanics and gardeners are certainly "relevant" to the lives of the people who supervise and employ them.
If men had contraception that didn't ruin sex, such as a pill, men would be stepping up so fast that peoples heads would spin, and whole new class of female victims of male perfidy.
there will be a problem either with the job, or, eventually, conception.
this should make it as clear as anything that men and women need different things, or at least need then differently.
I thought I had seen pictures of her in the past that suggested otherwise, but it may have been someone else.
the women you mentioned may be able to hold up this weight ok when they are young but they will definitely have health problems when they are older. It is true that the situation is complex, big bones caused by carrying weight provide some protection against osteoporosis. The real issue is fat to muscle ratio.
when you can fake that you've got it made.
but for there to be ANY possibility of this EVER being able to work women would have to give up the idea that they are the ULTIMATE authority over "their" children. The man has as MUCH to say about it as the mother OR he will particpate less OR he is some form of servant (which will probably always involve some conflict except where someone has a fetish).
ok...well I guess I can see that the situation is complex. I wonder if we will ever have the genetic or hormonal knowledge to say some people are this way and some are that way for clearly understandable reasons. For women, fat storage, in anticipation of pregnancy and nursing is probably the instinctive equivalent of sex in some ways in a way that it is not for men.
and everyone was raised from birth to do this and expected to do this and the inability to do so was seen as the equivalent of needing a wheelchair and treated as such, the VAST MAJORITY of hip injuries/replacements/damage would never happen/be needed.