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CRD wrote:

No the hemline stayed fairly high, I'm not sure why the gap in your liking of women in that era, They did add a more pointy conelike bra at that time and things stays fairly uniformed fashion wise also hemlines did drop abit and clothing got bulkier after WWII because we had more fabric to play with again.

Personally, I like the frizzy hair of the 80's. Like what Keeley Hawes had in the TV series "Ashes to Ashes".



On a separate note, I am reading "Iron John" by Robert Bly. It's "a book about Men" and "Male Masculinity".
I want to ask other members, what does "Man-hood" and "Masculinity" mean to you?

I think that the men deserve to have a forum, as much as the women. Why did they take that away from you guys?

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Well us boys live by a simple philosophy --

THE LAU GIVETH AND THE LAU TAKETH AWAY

To my way of thinking "Ideal Woman" can be defined in at least several specific areas:

Ideal appearance
Ideal behavior
Ideal voice
Ideal interests
Ideal intelligence
Ideal aesthetic sense
Ideal skills

I have a question for you men.

What do you think about the color pink?

Do you think it's more of a gender construct to hate it or do you find it on the whole foo foo even if you were allowed to wear it?

I think it looks sexy on some guys...

Hot pink is my husbands favor color.

Pink? I don't like it much. Can't say that it's nothing to do with the gender issue, but it's maybe more than that, as I don't like it on women either. Though I never was one for girlie women, I always want to tell them to stop acting so fluffy and helpless and to get some work done, so maybe it's the "ultra-female" signal that annoys me.

But come to think of it, I don't like pink objects either. In my last job there was a bright pink booklet that would put me in a bad mood every time I saw it, and I saw it every day. Strangely enough, though, I was under a lot of strain at the time from a new partner who I worked with as well as lived with - so we were virtually walled up alive together - and one of the things she did that irritated me was to act too fluffy and helpless, so it could be argued that it was a displacement thing of some kind. No way to prove it one way or the other. All I know is that I hated that pink booklet, and a vague but strong notion that it symbolised something very bad.

I think I see pink as a cheap, tacky kind of colour (no offense to pinkophiles, it's just the way I see it, not what I believe it to really be). Not that I see bright colours as generally tacky at all - I think people should adorn themselves with more colour than they do, especially the grey-suit brigade who look really drab to my eyes. But there are certain shades that just seem wrong in some contexts - typically the colours they used to paint the doors of council houses in the UK. That can't be a gender issue can it?

Red is better. Men look more fierce in Red.

Also, Women are more likely to be asked out when wearing Red.

Since we women have a forum of our own it's only fair that the men get one too.

They should have somewhere for male only issues just like we have the women's forum for ours.

*crickets chirping*

So hear I European beer is better than the american beer. Once in a while I'll pop open a can of Budweiser while watching Nascar with my bro. My personal problem with Budweiser and most other cheap beers is that they taste a bit flat.

What american or european beers would you guys recommend?