[Leanan]

Women didn't start shaving their legs until nylon was invented. Nylon stockings made leg hair look funny, in a way that silk stockings did not.

Nylon is, of course, a petroleum product. So peak oil may eventually mean the end of shaved legs.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Leanan', '
')So peak oil may eventually mean the end of shaved legs.

[Leanan]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'W')ell, if that happens, then it will do more for overshoot than any amount of planned parenthood could.

[WildRose]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JoeSixPack', 'W')omen control everything. They are responsible for all of the advertising dollars that Americans spend every year.

Men do not ask you to doll up the way you do. You are being controlled by magazines, newspapers, and television shows and these in turn are controlled by females.

You need to fix what is wrong with your sex, and stop blaming men for your need to look a certain way. We don't ask you to do anything.

You set the standard for beauty and what men should expect from a woman.

All we want is our barcalounger, the remote control, and occasional attention paid to our penis.

[threadbear]

Present company excluded--this is a complete generalization, so take it for what it is. There is a HUGE difference between American and Canadian women. Don't know why. We are on average, thinner, less demanding, culturally more "shy". When I lived in the U.S. I met a few women who were squat, ignorant, neckless and nasty. They were built like refrigerators, and their gender would have involved guesswork, had I not met their husbands. Their husbands seemed relatively normal. You NEVER see women like that here. Like--never, married, attached or single. Weird. What gives?

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WildRose', 'W')e have gone so far with the emphasis on youth and beauty in our culture that we no longer are aware of what is real.

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

There were still stockings (though not nylon) all the way back past the Victorian age. (google queen victoria's stockings). even after the petrol age ends there is still waxing which one hell of a lot of us women do. so don't think its over.

I haven't shaved my legs in years. And frankly don't plan to... if there's ever peak bees wax though... then I'll bitch.

[JoeSixPack]

If a woman doesn't love herself enough to take care of herself.

Then why should I?

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

Yeah, but whose standards of "care" are you assuming. Do you think a woman should conform to your expectations of level of "caring for herself"? and in turn are you willing to conform to her levels of expectations?

[JoeSixPack]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', 'Y')eah, but whose standards of "care" are you assuming. Do you think a woman should conform to your expectations of level of "caring for herself"? and in turn are you willing to conform to her levels of expectations?

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

Ok, so what about personality? or morales? I am going to assume that looks (or shaved legs) aren't all you care about. becuase otherwise you will be no better off than the poor suckers that were whining in the article that started this thread.

Where do looks and standards of personal hygiene rate in your list of priorities?

[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', 'O')k, so what about personality? or morales? I am going to assume that looks (or shaved legs) aren't all you care about. becuase otherwise you will be no better off than the poor suckers that were whining in the article that started this thread.

Where do looks and standards of personal hygiene rate in your list of priorities?

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Leanan', 'p')eak oil may eventually mean the end of shaved legs.

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', 'O')k, so what about personality? or morales? I am going to assume that looks (or shaved legs) aren't all you care about. becuase otherwise you will be no better off than the poor suckers that were whining in the article that started this thread. Where do looks and standards of personal hygiene rate in your list of priorities?

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

Face it, people are lazy and relationships take work. After the initial phase most people couldn't care less about what comes after. they would prefer to just settle down to comfy, routine and don't care what the spouce thinks.

There are more interesting things out there than that person who sits at the table with you and talks about the same damned thing day after day. They aren't new, half the time most people wouldn't notice if they changes their hair....

[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', 'O')k, so what about personality? or morales? I am going to assume that looks (or shaved legs) aren't all you care about. becuase otherwise you will be no better off than the poor suckers that were whining in the article that started this thread. Where do looks and standards of personal hygiene rate in your list of priorities?

[JoeSixPack]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', 'O')k, so what about personality? or morales? I am going to assume that looks (or shaved legs) aren't all you care about. becuase otherwise you will be no better off than the poor suckers that were whining in the article that started this thread.

Where do looks and standards of personal hygiene rate in your list of priorities?

[Grifter]

This is a great thread
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')o you guys have ANY idea how many women don't feel as though the guy they are with actually knows them, or see's them for themselves?

[hope_full]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')o any women have any idea of how many guys don't feel like the woman knows them?

[Grifter]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hope_full', ' ')Women are trained - largely by societal mores and more subtle cultural influences