lolz sexism (& metrosexualism if you want to go there...)

[oxymoronia]

Women's taste in men reflects economy

"The recession will see the demise of the metrosexual," Mr Salt said

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[nixwilliams]

omg LULZ!!!

[oxymoronia]

Hehehe, it's good when something is so ridiculous you can laugh at it!

[nixwilliams]

it is so sporfle-worthy! i read it to daniel_bethany and his face went from "whut?" at the evolutionary theory kicks in for survival to "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!" at . . . a little more hairy. "They want someone who can fight off a mammoth - and a metrosexual ain't gonna do it."

and then i clicked through to the article, and it was HUGE! AND I LOLED MORE!

[oxymoronia]

:D I'm glad you guys enjoyed it!!! :D

[merle_]

"In a boom the hemline was likely to rise, but in a recession the hemline was likely to fall"

Hmm. In my meager one year of experience in the business district of San Francisco, hemlines are more closely tied to weather.

It is one of the very few things I enjoy about summer. ;-)

[oxymoronia]

Hahaha, my skirts actually get shorter in winter, since that's when you can wear colourful tights and opaque pantyhose.

[ext_90340]

There was a period when there was a strong statistical correlation between American skirt lengths and various measures of economic performance. Some people treated the correlation as obviously spurious; various explanations were offered; a few loons seemed to think that skirt lengths significantly caused the performance of the economy.

When last I knew, the correlations seemed to have broken-down badly. I hadn't paid much attention to them before then, and paid even less after that.

[merle_]

Some book I read suggested that most fashion-related things (and quite a few economic things) are cyclical in nature, with cycles of twenty or forty years (which I suspect matched generation gaps, which have changed over the years). Not absolutely, of course, but that trends tended to follow such cycles. It suggested that hemlines just happened to coincide but that there was no viable causation.

If people really thought short skirts caused a better economy, clearly they should outlaw skirts over a certain length...

[ext_90340]

Kinda seems to me that, when the economy began to tank, the United States selected for their President an attractive, slim, weedy, geeky, metrosexual hairless male over a warrior-type. I think that the perceived performance of said metrosexual is going to significantly affect subsequent popularity of the type in other contexts.