""But part of the reason that is the case is because women are told (whether explicitly or not) throughout their lives that their worth is measured by superficial standards.""
Many women's lives *will* be measured, in whole or in part, by superficial standards.
What's your point?
News flash: Men are measured by superficial standards constantly, too.
Height is a serious deciding factor in life success, despite it having little to no 'rational' role in determining how productive you are.
Attractive men are more likely to be judged favorably in all sorts of situations, just as attractive women are.
When it comes to dating, women may be judged on one superficial level -- beauty -- but men are often judged on two: Their attractiveness and their income level.
Is all this judgment "wrong"? Not necessarily. For most of humanity, male and female, we're biologically wired to enjoy interacting with attractive people. It makes sense we'd prefer an attractive person over an unattractive one even in non-sexual situations, ceteris paribus.
""I think the fact that women can be very petty with one another (and sometimes downright vicious) is an example of that. Women generally feel on some level that they're in competition for male approval in some way.""
The most vicious cruelty I've ever heard of between women has been in all-girls schools.
That said, considering social interactions tend to center around men in competition for *female* approval, with men being expected (traditionally) to take the initiative, the idea that women are just delicate little flowers undermined by the hint of a man's approval is rather silly.
""The fact is that women are judged more based on superficial traits by other women and men, whereas men aren't judged by either to the same extent.""
Oh really?
That's funny, every statistic I've ever seen suggests that men are far more willing to date a woman who earns less than they do, whereas women tend to be highly resistant to that idea.
The resistance doesn't decrease as a woman's income decreases -- a woman earning six figures will still be far more likely to look for a partner with a higher income than herself, compared to a man earning the same.
What, do you think superficiality only means 'looks'?
If anything, it makes more sense to judge someone by their looks than to do so by their income level.
Attractive people make us happy -- a simple scan of our brains proves that. By contrast, there's a wealth of evidence that money doesn't buy happiness.
""Maybe my view of this is a little biased because I'm from New York where people tend to take how they dress a little more seriously on average but that would be the same when you compare women from here to women in other areas.""
Yes, us philistines out in Los Angeles wouldn't understand a concern with fashion. :)
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Don't be slutty, starve yourself like a classy lady would.
Link />I for one would rather see women walking around in nothing than thongs and heels than becoming emaciated, pretending it means they're above it all.
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Many women's lives *will* be measured, in whole or in part, by superficial standards.
What's your point?
News flash: Men are measured by superficial standards constantly, too.
Height is a serious deciding factor in life success, despite it having little to no 'rational' role in determining how productive you are.
Attractive men are more likely to be judged favorably in all sorts of situations, just as attractive women are.
When it comes to dating, women may be judged on one superficial level -- beauty -- but men are often judged on two: Their attractiveness and their income level.
Is all this judgment "wrong"? Not necessarily. For most of humanity, male and female, we're biologically wired to enjoy interacting with attractive people. It makes sense we'd prefer an attractive person over an unattractive one even in non-sexual situations, ceteris paribus.
""I think the fact that women can be very petty with one another (and sometimes downright vicious) is an example of that. Women generally feel on some level that they're in competition for male approval in some way.""
The most vicious cruelty I've ever heard of between women has been in all-girls schools.
That said, considering social interactions tend to center around men in competition for *female* approval, with men being expected (traditionally) to take the initiative, the idea that women are just delicate little flowers undermined by the hint of a man's approval is rather silly.
""The fact is that women are judged more based on superficial traits by other women and men, whereas men aren't judged by either to the same extent.""
Oh really?
That's funny, every statistic I've ever seen suggests that men are far more willing to date a woman who earns less than they do, whereas women tend to be highly resistant to that idea.
The resistance doesn't decrease as a woman's income decreases -- a woman earning six figures will still be far more likely to look for a partner with a higher income than herself, compared to a man earning the same.
What, do you think superficiality only means 'looks'?
If anything, it makes more sense to judge someone by their looks than to do so by their income level.
Attractive people make us happy -- a simple scan of our brains proves that. By contrast, there's a wealth of evidence that money doesn't buy happiness.
""Maybe my view of this is a little biased because I'm from New York where people tend to take how they dress a little more seriously on average but that would be the same when you compare women from here to women in other areas.""
Yes, us philistines out in Los Angeles wouldn't understand a concern with fashion. :)