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When the media puts most of your value on looks it not surprising some women might feel like it is a competition.
by bruceb 4y ago
When the media puts most of your value on looks it not surprising some women might feel like it is a competition.
- gjsman-1000 4y agoOn the other hand, remember that these modesty norms have existed in many cultures (particularly colder countries), for millennia. Long before there was a "media" creating competition.
- legitster 4y ago> particularly colder countries Keep in mind average breast size correlates with colder weather.
- BrandoElFollito 4y agoWhat is the correlation? Cold weather = large breasts, or the other way round? Or some non linear relation with a maximum somewhere?
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y agoThe media? Aren't we hard-wired to seek attractive mates because attractiveness is correlated with good health and genetics?
- bruceb 4y agoNo one is saying physical attractive was not valued before. But it is super charged by some media as basically the main value of a women. Then a literally unattainable image pushed as the ideal via photoshopped pics an video.
- xchip 4y agoThat is only if you decided to believe in what media says. Pick your priest.
- nix23 4y agoCountry/Culture of media origin is also important ;)
- kelseyfrog 4y agoThe media serves as a coordinator in what would otherwise be a social coordination problem. Imagine for a moment, the game of "social value" and it's strategies. What is the Schelling point of such a game? Hard to say, right? It's easy however, to understand that a whichever the dominant strategy is, the cost/reward of following the dominant strategy on average is fairly high given the material constraints that any "social value" game would have.[1] In fact, choosing a a non-dominant "priest" has an opportunity cost associated with it over choosing a "dominant priest". In our society, media functions as a "dominant priest" or rather a communicator of the dominant strategy. Directing someone to choose a non-dominant strategy is a bit pointless to the people who are instead asking, "shouldn't we be playing a different game instead?" 1. As to what these are is left as an exercise to the reader.