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Old 09-08-2011, 09:11 AM   #82
Elystan
 
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I don't know, there are definitely distinctions between what men want to see and what women shame each other for. I mean I might see a girl and think "yes please" and hear another girl say "she looks like a slut".

Of course the motivation for that might be the whole "ripping other people down to build yourself up" thing, but I think girl-on-girl criticism of appearance, while perhaps derived from the notion of appearance-as-value idea takes on different forms.

Of course when being evaluated as a sexual object then this of course is directly relevant. If a woman is truly willing to renounce that and all the secondary avenues of power it brings, then it really shouldn't be relevant to her at all. If you only care about for instance your contributions to science then it really shouldn't matter if someone calls you fat and a poor excuse for a woman (not like this doesn't happen to men) as long as you get your name on research papers.
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