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  • Fuuma
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2006
    • 4050

    #16
    Originally posted by apathy! View Post
    You've put this in a cynical way, but isn't this a good thing?

    i.e. people looking for traits that appeal to them personally rather than someone with good social status and money.
    I've put it in the wider context of relationships as market-driven goods. BTW people didn't marry FOR social status and money, they married WITHIN their social class (so social+economical), it's just that for a woman (someone that was a dependent), social/economical security was paramount because she had to rely on her husband to provide it.

    BTW is someone's social status (a collection of traits) less of a trait than their knowledge of chiaroscuro? Should we stick to nice asses? Sounds pretty much like a given trait.
    Selling CCP, Harnden, Raf, Rick etc.
    http://www.stylezeitgeist.com/forums...me-other-stuff

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    • Fuuma
      Senior Member
      • Sep 2006
      • 4050

      #17
      Originally posted by ES3K View Post
      Yeah, add a longboard, Nike Air Max and a pug dog and that's how 92,7% of all men do look right now. It was never easier to be avantgarde. I kind of like this development.
      Wut, I'm not sure the bearded hipster with tattoos and flashy Nike is that prevalent, it is a pretty specific subset of a relatively large community but that is about it.
      Selling CCP, Harnden, Raf, Rick etc.
      http://www.stylezeitgeist.com/forums...me-other-stuff

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      • rider
        eyes of the world
        • Jun 2009
        • 1560

        #18
        old[er] woman point of view:
        Call it metro or sporno, pigeonholing a generational social climate seems like a waste of energy. Perhaps its an age thing, after all I'm older than most of you, but i still think confidence, intelligence (and a host of other genial characteristics) as well as a guy who can pull off a skirt is attractive. Each culture and generation will have a preference of what's "vogue" I guess. It's a shift that each generation has and defines a small group. I'm more concerned with the mentality of entitlement than with how body conscious they have become.

        Just reading this article made me think how unimportant it seems in comparison to a report I heard the other day where in Pakistan a father along with his male family members beat his daughter to death with rocks for marrying a man they did not approve of. How profoundly disgusted this made me. The husband was horrified as he watched, but the clincher is that he killed his former wife so he could marry her. I realize this has nothing to do with the article it just made me think what opposite ends of the spectrum what's "fashionable" can be...

        btw, fuumaliciously good looking is now a coined phrase worthyof a generation I want to live in.

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        • BeauIXI
          Senior Member
          • Nov 2008
          • 1272

          #19
          Phallic pacifiers? Slow down there, cowboy.

          Fair enough, I get that men are using more products that might have once labelled them as fags, and could have led to some serious social pressure, but this Simpson fellow is a bit smug about it, as though he knows what's really going on. Isn't it less the case that, society is becoming a brave new world that Wilde would approve of, through some ridiculous Darwinian mechanism involving porn and celebrities, and more the case that through the use of aesthetics, marketing is levelling everyone, into a homogenous group of consumers?

          Fuuma's comment about bear culture made me laugh, but it's totally true. Stuff like this essentializes and historicizes the present. Just as knowledge of the existence of the punk movement is threatened by images of muscle cars and windbreakers of the 80's, definitions that homogenize people into one category (like the term "guys," which homogenizes both "boys" and "men") threaten the particular. To me, this article is part of that essentialism, and the celebration of the "new" which is always the reoccurring same, contributes to it.

          So you use designer moustache wax to "photoshop yourself in real life." Who cares?
          Originally posted by philip nod
          somebody should kop this. this is forever.

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          • Faust
            kitsch killer
            • Sep 2006
            • 37852

            #20
            Originally posted by rider View Post
            old[er] woman point of view:
            Call it metro or sporno, pigeonholing a generational social climate seems like a waste of energy. Perhaps its an age thing, after all I'm older than most of you, but i still think confidence, intelligence (and a host of other genial characteristics) as well as a guy who can pull off a skirt is attractive. Each culture and generation will have a preference of what's "vogue" I guess. It's a shift that each generation has and defines a small group. I'm more concerned with the mentality of entitlement than with how body conscious they have become.

            Just reading this article made me think how unimportant it seems in comparison to a report I heard the other day where in Pakistan a father along with his male family members beat his daughter to death with rocks for marrying a man they did not approve of. How profoundly disgusted this made me. The husband was horrified as he watched, but the clincher is that he killed his former wife so he could marry her. I realize this has nothing to do with the article it just made me think what opposite ends of the spectrum what's "fashionable" can be...

            btw, fuumaliciously good looking is now a coined phrase worthyof a generation I want to live in.
            You should give lectures to the countless fashion chicks I meet in New York who fit the prototype DRRRK talks about to a T.
            Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

            StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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            • ES3K
              Senior Member
              • Oct 2008
              • 530

              #21
              Originally posted by Fuuma View Post
              Wut, I'm not sure the bearded hipster with tattoos and flashy Nike is that prevalent, it is a pretty specific subset of a relatively large community but that is about it.
              Well I wasn't really talking about the world population, more about the community I seem to live in, the venues I go to etc

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              • Fuuma
                Senior Member
                • Sep 2006
                • 4050

                #22
                Originally posted by ES3K View Post
                Well I wasn't really talking about the world population, more about the community I seem to live in, the venues I go to etc
                There comes a time when an adult has to stop hanging with hipsters, you have apparently reached that time. The wonderful world of golf club memberships and bigoted old white men beckons your arrival.
                Selling CCP, Harnden, Raf, Rick etc.
                http://www.stylezeitgeist.com/forums...me-other-stuff

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                • lazyguru
                  Senior Member
                  • Jun 2008
                  • 268

                  #23
                  St Fuuma has spoken

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