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What is the point of nail salons? Seems like women have been indoctrinated to think that nails are important. Sorry, they are not. No man ever considers nails
by mikhailfranco 3y ago
What is the point of nail salons?
Seems like women have been indoctrinated to think that nails are important. Sorry, they are not. No man ever considers nails when regarding a woman. Only women look at nails when looking at other women.
The supposed attraction of long nails is like the pale-skinned attraction in all agricultural communities: pale skin means you are a rich lady-of-leisure, living inside the big house, not a farmer or laborer working under the sun in the fields.
This prejudice used to be true in western societies before the Industrial Revolution. But now it is reversed, with pale complexion meaning you are poor and work in a factory, but sun-tanned complexion meaning you are rich enough to holiday in Spain or Thailand to get sun in the winter, or now even get UV radiated on a sun-bed.
(As long-haul flights have come down in price, sunbeds are even cheaper, and warnings about skin cancer hit home, the inverse prejudice may be reverting back to the original pale-skin preference).
However, the farm-based prejudice is very much alive in East Asia (Japan, China, Korea, Thailand, etc.). Women from these countries carry parasols whenever there is a hint of sun, even if they have paid a lot of money to go to the sun on holiday, in say, Thailand or Bali.
[So there is the bizarre contradiction of western women paying for UV sunbeds, even as eastern women carry parasols on a hazy day.]
Nails are like that: you cannot have long nails if you are a farm worker, or craftsperson, or work in a laundry or a kitchen. Long nails mean you are lady of leisure, hence enviously regarded by other ladies.
Long decorated nails are not an indication of attractiveness to men, they are always and everywhere a signal of class, from one lady to another.
- eru 3y agoYou know that nail salons ain't about making your nails longer? (At least the vast majority of what they do is not about installing nail extensions are anything like that.) > Only women look at nails when looking at other women. That's the same as men going to the gym and working hard on their biceps and triceps. (Many women do appreciate some muscles, but when you talk to them you will learn that the butt is the are you should focus on, if you want to maximize attraction for most of them. Leg day, every day.) But there's nothing wrong with doing anything just for a kind of beauty that opposite gender by and large doesn't care about. As long as you care about it, that's fine. > However, the farm-based prejudice is very much alive in East Asia (Japan, China, Korea, Thailand, etc.). Women from these countries carry parasols whenever there is a hint of sun, even if they have paid a lot of money to go to the sun on holiday, in say, Thailand or Bali. I live in Singapore. You are right that many people here don't like to get too much sun. Me included. (But that's far from everyone here. Some people don't care too much.) I don't think there's much of an overlap between people going to sun themselves in Bali and the kind of people who carry a parasol. Back to the nails: I just clip mine myself, and they honestly look fairly terrible. I could go for the same length but have them done nicely. Not even with decoration or nail polish, just nice and with clear lines and perhaps some polishing. (And whatever else they can do.) If I worked in a customer-centric job, that would be absolutely vital. Or if my hands showed up on video a lot etc. None of this has anything to do with long nails or attraction by the preferred sex.
- bobthepanda 3y agoFun fact: the preponderance of nail salons can be credited to an American actress having her manicurist teach Vietnamese refugees how to do French manicures so that they could find gainful employment. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32544343 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32544343