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30 Mar 2022, 3:34 pm

TB_TB_TB_TB_TB_TB wrote:
Is this toxic content?

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The "girl next door" and the :"down to earth" look like they are from an episode of Friends :lol:
That 90s sitcom caricitured "average NY women" did a tremendous service to making millions of young women develop eating disorders



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30 Mar 2022, 3:36 pm

TB_TB_TB_TB_TB_TB wrote:
Is this toxic content?

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Just reposting this so I can gawk at the instagram model



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31 Mar 2022, 11:25 am

cyberdad wrote:
TB_TB_TB_TB_TB_TB wrote:
Is this toxic content?

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https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/01/02/10/22905780-0-image-a-17_1577962576753.jpg


The "girl next door" and the :"down to earth" look like they are from an episode of Friends :lol:
That 90s sitcom caricitured "average NY women" did a tremendous service to making millions of young women develop eating disorders


But don't a lot of women think guys aren't going to get women as hot as that, I'll do just fine?



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31 Mar 2022, 3:30 pm

ironpony wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
TB_TB_TB_TB_TB_TB wrote:
Is this toxic content?

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https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/01/02/10/22905780-0-image-a-17_1577962576753.jpg


The "girl next door" and the :"down to earth" look like they are from an episode of Friends :lol:
That 90s sitcom caricitured "average NY women" did a tremendous service to making millions of young women develop eating disorders


But don't a lot of women think guys aren't going to get women as hot as that, I'll do just fine?


The average teenage boy has posters of swimsuit models on their walls. Do you think they do this to add colour to the decor?



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31 Mar 2022, 3:33 pm

The average teenage boy cannot get those models and just settle for average women anyway, regardless of their posters.



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31 Mar 2022, 3:34 pm

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The average teenage boy cannot get those models and just settle for average women anyway, regardless of their posters.


The average teenage boy is more idealistic than we are.



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31 Mar 2022, 4:20 pm

Oh how are we not as idealistic?



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31 Mar 2022, 5:04 pm

i basically detest fashion. the fashionable people can all have themselves, too high-maintenance for me.



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01 Apr 2022, 1:17 am

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i basically detest fashion. the fashionable people can all have themselves, too high-maintenance for me.


It's very high maintenance. In the old days social climbers in Sydney and Melbourne would fly to Hong Kong to get their suits tailored to fit as this was crucial if you wanted to fit-in with a corporate crowd.

I am fairly sure I have bombed out of job interviews because my suit didn't fit 100%



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01 Apr 2022, 1:22 am

cyberdad wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
i basically detest fashion. the fashionable people can all have themselves, too high-maintenance for me.


It's very high maintenance. In the old days social climbers in Sydney and Melbourne would fly to Hong Kong to get their suits tailored to fit as this was crucial if you wanted to fit-in with a corporate crowd.

I am fairly sure I have bombed out of job interviews because my suit didn't fit 100%

NT society is, safe to say, utterly superficial. it is presentation above all, that is the currency. i saw this even in the army back in the day [1980s], a fellow GI [reservist] made it up to staff sergeant on the strength not of his soldiering, but on how well he answered questions from his "smart book." IOW how well he did up his uniform, polished his boots [technically against regs], buffed up his military bearing. he was also buddies with his NCO peers.



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01 Apr 2022, 1:46 am

auntblabby wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
i basically detest fashion. the fashionable people can all have themselves, too high-maintenance for me.


It's very high maintenance. In the old days social climbers in Sydney and Melbourne would fly to Hong Kong to get their suits tailored to fit as this was crucial if you wanted to fit-in with a corporate crowd.

I am fairly sure I have bombed out of job interviews because my suit didn't fit 100%

NT society is, safe to say, utterly superficial. it is presentation above all, that is the currency. i saw this even in the army back in the day [1980s], a fellow GI [reservist] made it up to staff sergeant on the strength not of his soldiering, but on how well he answered questions from his "smart book." IOW how well he did up his uniform, polished his boots [technically against regs], buffed up his military bearing. he was also buddies with his NCO peers.


Yes it's fair to say when the boss comes up to a new recruit and says "you are management material" it's because they "present well".



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01 Apr 2022, 1:53 am

cyberdad wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
i basically detest fashion. the fashionable people can all have themselves, too high-maintenance for me.


It's very high maintenance. In the old days social climbers in Sydney and Melbourne would fly to Hong Kong to get their suits tailored to fit as this was crucial if you wanted to fit-in with a corporate crowd.

I am fairly sure I have bombed out of job interviews because my suit didn't fit 100%


Are there no tailors in Australia?


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01 Apr 2022, 1:54 am

that1weirdgrrrl wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
i basically detest fashion. the fashionable people can all have themselves, too high-maintenance for me.


It's very high maintenance. In the old days social climbers in Sydney and Melbourne would fly to Hong Kong to get their suits tailored to fit as this was crucial if you wanted to fit-in with a corporate crowd.

I am fairly sure I have bombed out of job interviews because my suit didn't fit 100%


Are there no tailors in Australia?


expensive. Cheaper to take a cheap flight to Hong Kong and get your suits tailored there.



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27 Apr 2022, 12:33 am

So when James Bond said 'I know a good taylor in Hong Kong' in Diamonds Are Forever, I guess he really new what he was talking about?



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27 Apr 2022, 12:39 am

cyberdad wrote:
that1weirdgrrrl wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
i basically detest fashion. the fashionable people can all have themselves, too high-maintenance for me.


It's very high maintenance. In the old days social climbers in Sydney and Melbourne would fly to Hong Kong to get their suits tailored to fit as this was crucial if you wanted to fit-in with a corporate crowd.

I am fairly sure I have bombed out of job interviews because my suit didn't fit 100%


Are there no tailors in Australia?


expensive. Cheaper to take a cheap flight to Hong Kong and get your suits tailored there.


You’re kidding? Maybe I shall become a tailor and apply for Australia.



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27 Apr 2022, 1:21 am

I dunno about "toxic" but all the assumptions are certainly idiotic.

* Women can be categorised using very simple stereotypes with no complications, overlaps or exceptions

* The women in each simplistic group will all look the same, regardless of age, wealth, background etc..

* All women in each group will be attracted to men

* All women in each group will definitely have the same "best match" of man, which again is a simplistic stereotype

It seems to be one of those things that takes very broad, average trends and then assumes they're ALWAYS true, even though they very clearly aren't.

This is a bit like saying that if the average of ten numbers is 5, then all ten of those numbers must be 5. Which is blatantly nonsense.