QUOTE(Alison @ Sat 9th October 2010, 11:43pm)
This has to be one of the most retarded WR threads in years (Ottava-related threads aside). Bunch of guys posting pics of various young women connected to the WMF, while passing remarks as to their age, physical appearance, etc. Seriously, it just makes you all look pretty bad
Nah, truthfully it makes us look pretty normal.
If we were a bunch of (straight) women, we'd be bringing up names of various men and discussing whether or not they were "taken/available" already and how permanently, and if not off the market, what their social status and power was, income, amount of fame, intelligence, sense of humor, and whether or not they were reputed to be assholes or nice-guys. Titilating "bad-boy" details would be discussed, as spice.
Following the dirt-dishing, there would be a certain amount of self-congratulation about how women are not a shallow as men are, simply because their tastes in child-rearing-partner characteristics tend to be more stringent. Albeit not any less mercenary, as men find out just as soon as children arrive, and they find themselves in a secondary and now semi-dispensible role.
Especially now that alimony, child support, and welfare (a tax on men to support other men's children) are institutionalized.
You know what the difference between men and women is, when it comes to sexual "attraction"? It is this: we men are quite aware that we're predatory and shallow; we are not THAT stupid. You women, by contrast, keep on fooling not only us men, but yourselves, too.
The only time you catch a glimpse of the fact that you're just as calculating at gathering resources for reproduction, is when you see
other women in action doing this, in a matter when
your own interests happen to be at stake.
I imagine that lesbians are able to stand outside "the great game" to some extent, in the same way that gay men do. And the elderly do. Oy, the games of those young breeders!