Out of Pod Experience

I realize this every once in a while when I think about the negative impacts of this culture and how it sometimes controls our lives. Recently, I was listening to the the music artist 'Lights', specifically her album Siberia. While listening to this music I was gazing at the album cover and studying this image closely, as I often do.

Here is that album cover: LIGHTS_SIBERIA
Take a look at it before you read on. It's relevant.

So I was gazing at this image of the singer 'Lights', and thinking to myself what a pretty lady. She has a funny accent but it's cute. She's got amazing hair, and that plaid shirt she's wearing says she wants to let the world know that a redneck can look stylish.

Then I realize just how much sideboob is showing here. No really, it took me a few times restarting the album before I noticed. It's only strange to me because almost every guy I know would have spotted that and pointed it out much sooner. A lot of gals I know probably would too. But if Lights were a guy and showing that much chest, nobody would care. Sure, women everywhere would swoon over a guy like that dressing provocatively, but you wouldn't get that rabble-rabble of hordes of sexually repressed people reacting with an outcry to the horror that a man would show his skin in public. It wouldn't be a big deal. It really isn't a big deal.

But we still make a big deal about women showing skin. Why? It's just skin. And don't say it's because women have boobs. Men have breasts too. Most straight women find a man more attractive if he has flat boobs, conversely most straight men prefer if a woman has a significant amount of fatty padding behind and around those tiny mammary glands. Why is one preference worthy of covering up, while the other isn't? Should we cover up the chests of men who don't have boobs? Should we let women without boobs go out with no shirt on? And above all, why does it matter? Why don't we just stop making people wear shirts?

Now I'd like to go back to thinking happy thoughts about Lights and her awesome shirt, without having these cultural nightmares pervading in and derailing my thought process. Maybe someday people won't have to deal with these problems.

Sideboob is view of BWN

She would have been 24 years at the time the Siberia album was released.

I don't fully understand the negative light that feminisim has gotten. I understand that most people believe whatever they hear, but it doesn't take more than about a 5 minute search on Google to discover that feminism is about equality for the sexes, and is basically aligned with most of the trends western culture is moving toward anyway. So I don't understand when people who generally stand out for being skeptical will fall into the trap of hating feminism because they're all a bunch of hypocritical ball-busting bítches. I'm a feminist and no, we're not that.

If that's the reason we force women to cover their skin, then they should be required to cover their vulva, nipples, back of the neck, and a few other sensitive spots I haven't found yet--and nothing else.

I'm pretty sure that's not it, but good guess.

Women aren't that much more sensitive than men. Well, unless those men have had their genitals mutilated.

i can't even form a basic opinion about this thread yet.

must be all that different wiring i'm apparently equipped with.

well...i know i generally keep two of those listed things covered lol



huh?

but, yes, i was being a little bit sarcastic.

Because to pass for an eternal victim is the way to go in our so called progressist and weak societies.
Look around you, less and less people take on their **** as adults.
How to have men and women when people act like self-entitled brats.

I feel compelled to point out that sideboob is from the side and not the front. So that is frontboob. Which is like the peanut smuggler's version of cleavage. These are scientific terms.

Not that I would know anything about boobs. I'm sure they're nice to have. Grr, genetics.

lol if you say so, web.

one thing i'd like to add about the "wiring" comment is that i don't really think there is different wiring at all. i think there is only difference in perception to the information passing along the wiring and reaction to said information. there is a cultural element that can not be ignored as well.

Until you get into clinical psychology results/studies. Not speaking of the nutsy ideological shrink stuff where you lay on a couch and they pick your brain with chopsticks. But physical and mental stresses put on the body. How much stress someone can take. How much of anything... under all circumstances imaginable. All the differences with every other difference. I may not like shrinks, but clinical psychology is worth it's weight for sure. At least in that, there is no real bias as attached to most everything else such as social activism etc. When an astronaut washes out, it isn't because he/she had the wrong ideals towards fairness doctrines and social justice. From a purely scientific approach, there are certainly differences.

And really, if this social ideal is true, how come where San Francisco had no law against public full-nudity up until recently, people were not covering the streets with skin? I mean there were a few who did, mostly overweight middle-aged homosexual men, but hot looking 23 year old women were not to be seen? Cant be some form of oppression... it was 100% legal, for anyone, for years and years! But didn't happen... See, because this is where reality tends to shadow social ideology. Because one thing for sure, modesty, safety and self-preservation is simply a part of our human nature. There is no oppression going on, no one is being oppressed here, no victims.