Beauty Pageants and Toilet Seats

[bini_bini]

Toilet seats first. I've grown up in a majority female household so up until embarrassingly recently, I thought the seat argument was all about whether or not people paid the courtesy of lowering the LID. I've always thought lowering the lid was a bit like making your bed or ironing tea towels...not strictly necessary but a nice touch. More

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[bushwalker]

I don't lower the seat because I want to ensure that the flushing did it's job. Plus it concentrates certain fumes... But men should lower the seat because they need the seat down some of the time and we need it down all of the time so on balance we win. To convince men of this however...sigh!

Don't you question why it is that women will a scholarship for parading around in a bikini and not from doing volunteer work or something else. Of course individual women, if they are beautiful enough, will take advantage of this and good on them. But is that a fair outcome for poor, ugly, intelligent women? Why don't men have beauty contests? Why can't women have the opportunity to size up the male physique? It's not about the physical per se but about the system that rewards and punishes according to dictates of male desire. Is that good for everybody? Some people take the physique way too seriously - think extreme makeover, raw diets, etc. It's not that we shouldn't honour and celebrate the physical but there should be some balance and fairness to our set up.

[bini_bini]

I agree with you but the pragmatist in me knows that the system will never be fair. Shouldwe denounce something we find reprehensible on grounds of principle when in some cases it does provide good opportunities for women?

And is it only about male desire? I'm not familiar with mags marketed for men but it seems on the basis of women's mags that the female population also admires beauty and physical appeal as our culture currently dictates.