Saturday, February 5, 2011
Give me some answers!!
What are the answers? We search for them in religion, in politics, in the nooks and crannies of life but it seems that the more we look, the more we do not know. This blog will try its best to answer many questions brought to the surface throughout this course using the various terms we will learn. I am not claiming that these theories are in fact my theories, or that I even support them but I will try to make sense out of them in a proper context. This is a realm of scholarly debate so I encourage my classmates and people of the world to comment, criticize, or hail me a demigod but do so with intelligent discourse. The shadowy underworld of critical theories is a vast industrial complex of dark corners and mazes where one door closes, another opens and like life, we sift through it with diligence as humans trying to make sense of it all. There are theorists out there, or non theorists I suppose, who like Socrates argue that we do not know anything. That everything is lost through the act of expressing it or as humans we over analyze and dissect anything pure and shape it through our own diluted filters for our own social agendas. Maybe thats the case? Maybe not? Hopefully throughout this semester we will dredge through the heavy terrain and get just a little closer to figuring something out. I look forward to the hike.
JD
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How can a man stay faithful in a room full of 5'11" models with full lips and 6% body fat. When a man looks at another man's woman with a thin waist and pretty face, why do we not look away, knowing she's unavailable.
ReplyDeleteI think it returns to our primal instincts of our glory days as cavemen. But it also quite possibly makes it way into different veins of the human condition, like say, religion. For men, and a lot of women, the female body is something of worship, something of perfect scientific design. A piece of artwork for the spectators to gawk over. A claim of property to fight wars over, a symbol of your power, but a symbol of human perfection. I only wished we lived in a society where it was socially acceptable and in fact encouraged to compliment a woman, married or not, on her astounding beauty as if we would pay homage to a sculptor who has crafted something magnificent. As I digress from a topic of most interest to me, I think all areas of ones life, we must show constraint and dedication to social norms if we want to be liked and accepted, or not, we can hump the legs of all the women that walk our way and hang out with as many models as we want, either way we're doomed.
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ReplyDeletedo we not live in that kind of society? who is to say that we can't compliment a women and her perfections? i think any woman would take a compliment regardless of marital status. it's easy to find the perfections of any passing women but from behind the counter in a coffee shop, sometimes its the imperfections that we find most appealing and beautiful. maybe a fuller set of eyebrows, a beak that could easily be used to pry open a clam. i guess its a perfect science in the sense that nature is the scientist and each women, as she grows, develops her own imperfections, making each and every woman beautiful in some perfect way. staying faithful in a room full of 5'11 models is easy for me. taller women intimidate me. a man cant help but become engulfed in a woman's beauty, it's what we are supposed to do, it is what makes us men, it's engraved in us. it is however up to up to us, as men, to make the right decision.
ReplyDeleteIt is socially acceptable to give compliments when you find someone beautiful, regardless of martial status, as long as it is with intentions for exactly that.. just a compliment. But realistically how many times do men "compliment" a women without alternative motives? That is where the problem lies. Compliments, which should be used to show appreciation or awe, has turned into nothing more than a pick up line. When your in a room full of models, is it their beauty that makes you compelled to become unfaithful or the fact that they are seen as unavailable in your eyes? As a human race, we always seem to want what we can't have and never happy with what we do. Beauty is never the sole culprit to unfaithfulness. If it was, then what is the excuse for those that are dating some of the most beautiful women in the world, yet can't seem to keep it in their pants? At the end of the day, a "model" is a women just like the rest of us. With the same hopes that a man will respect and love her for more than just her full lips and a skinny frame. I think thats where a lot of us get it wrong. Beauty shouldn't be solely based on physical attributes. In my opinion, the most beautiful of women OR men that possess a nasty, negative attitude and soul, or have nothing to offer but a pretty face and a fit body, turns instantly ugly.
ReplyDeleteI think this discussion in a way correlates to my other topic on a society based off of truth. In our weird and bizarre human make up, do we ever learn to trust completely? Or is it in our inherent nature, part of our being, to be suspicious of another humans motives, whether it be a compliment or a deliberate action of sorts? The more I ponder on it, the more I think that it is not man itself, but society, institutions, groups, that has created this paranoia, this mistrust in our fellow species, so much so that is in almost wrong, and peculiar to think that one person could admire and compliment another on their beauty without some form of hidden agenda. The feminists will stone you to death and the conservatives will deem you an immoral heathen while they stash kiddy porn in their desk drawers and hire high class escorts on taxpayers dollars. The reality seems to be that man is wary of himself, therefore he fears others. Let's see if evolution changes this.
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