XPost: alt.slack, alt.2600, sci.skeptic   
   From: dev@null.com   
      
   Zapanaz wrote:   
   > On Wed, 17 May 2006 07:55:00 -0400, just john   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Zapanaz wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> you ever wonder why men would adopt the custom of wearing something as   
   >>> basically pointless as a necktie, where women would never do the same   
   >>> kind of thing (except, realistically, as a way of fitting into a   
   >>> workplace where the custom has long since been established)?   
   >> I take it jewelry is worn as a practical thing?  Perhaps in case   
   civilization   
   >> collapses during business hours and something's needed for barter at the dry   
   >> cleaners?   
   >   
   > well arguably jewelry actually looks like something.  The best   
   > argument I have ever heard for neckties having some asthetic value is   
   > that they are kind of upside-down phallic symbols, sort of, but I am   
   > not sure I buy that.   
   >   
   > Doc Wilson : It's the truth that you should never trust anybody who   
   > wears a bow tie. Cravat's supposed to point down to accentuate the   
   > genitals. Why'd you wanna trust somebody whose tie points out to   
   > accentuate his ears?   
   >   
   > In fact it's interesting that white men, supposedly the most logical   
   > of all men, have an aversion to jewelry of all kinds, although it   
   > looks good and attracts women.  Heterosexual guys started wearing   
   > earrings again in my lifetime and it was mindboggling to many other   
   > heterosexual guys.  I have never quite understood why, to highly   
   > logical heterosexual white guys, most things that guys do to attract   
   > women are assumed to be signs of homosexuality.  Such as practicing   
   > diligent hygiene, dressing well, jewelry, etc.  But don't get me wrong   
   > I have always been grateful for the relative lack of competition   
   > there.   
   >   
      
   ... as I sit here with my wooden beaded necklace, dyed hair and fake tan   
   :P  .. hey, contrary to popular belief, the "monochrome shade of geek"   
   isnt actually all that appealing :P   
      
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