Parallel
Salto Sobrius: “Martin Rundkvist’s blog. Archaeology, Skepticism, Sweden. And Books and Music and Stuff.” Today the “stuff” is this post, which draws an interesting parallel: bikini tops and headscarves.
Sadly, I’m torn. I’d love to do away with headscarves and bikini tops. I wonder if all women stopped wearing bikini tops if men would regard them all as uppity and feminist and therefore think boobs are unsexy? It’d be nice if women could choose what they wear and allow it to genuinely be an expression of themselves — and men, too, who I’m sure don’t all feel their deepest sould expressed by wearing a suit.
But then, clothes do send a message: status, lifestyle, expectation, and all that. Aren’t we most likely to find friends and partners who are like us? What better — what easier way to send a concise message about your life than with the image of yourself? Who will I befriend if I go topless at Virginia Beach? Who will befriend me? Maybe I’ll buy a hat to go with my bikini.
There are 3 Comments to "Parallel"
The countries where boobs are no big deal are all places where it’s warm enough that a woman can let them dangle all year round. In northern Europe, I think boobs will always be a huge hangup for men, because most of the year women wear too much clothing for anyone to see how they’re really built.
What does it mean that your entry is filed under “all wrong”?
Then why is hair a fetish in warm places? It must be stiflingly hot to keep a full head of hair under a scarf. I think you’re right, that boobs will likely always be a fetish in northerly climes. Except possibly for the Polar Bear club…
It’s not filed under “all wrong,” it’s posted on “allwrong.com,” where all the cool kids come to snark at That which is Foolish. Fetishisation to the point of oppression is foolish. Good post, I like the parallel, and think you’re really on to something.
I know what mrund means: “all wrong” is just the default category for posts, since I thought “uncategorized” sounded lazy.