Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

I love the David, but there's been a scarcity of works of art expressing male beauty in the 600+ years since (or however many it is, excuse my ignorance).

I have also trained my DH well. It also helps that he works for BA with a lot of gay men so is very sure of his own sexuality. He too can appreciate that Robert Downey Jnr is truly gorgeous.

A man appreciative of all beauty is a delight in deed, how lucky we are!

I guess I pu forward the David, because it is so often proposed as the very ideal of beauty in art..;.but there are other examples. all the male portraiture. the many depictions of war and battle and mythology. I could give other examples, but the ones coming to mind are almost as cliche as the David...:o. I think it might be more that society NOW focuses on the female beauty painted in the past. I think my today I mean sort of ladst 100 yearsish. I can think of notable exceptions...during that last hundred years, but I agree, the sort of time turn into the cebturay before last seems....men got scared of being wussy.

lemonjelly

fedupfreda wrote: »

IME one woman would rarely, if ever, call another woman a 'hottie';) - they are more likely to use the terms 'attractive', 'pretty', or 'beautiful' - hence my reason for the gender assumption.....

However I will concede you may have deliberately used such misleading terminology in order to 'create the impression' that you are male..... and therefore adding to the confusion, IYSWIM! But then again it could equally be a Freudian slip.....:)

Assumptions, with regard to Pixels, are dangerous things.;) But to me, you still come across as more 'male' than 'female' - but maybe that has more to do with me being the only female in this household (at least until I get the hens!). I seem to be pretty 'tuned in' to that side of things at the moment. If that makes any sense.

Actually, I never set out with the intention of vagueness or concealing it.

However on a few threads, not too long after I started posting, people responded to me ascribing a particular gender. Me being me, challenged this. & people then backtracked, or whatever. The original point I tried to make was to encourage people not to make assumptions more than anything else. (I also recall bendix proposing marriage to me - saying I was the perfect woman).

I remember not too long ago someone jumped on a comment I made & said "you're definitely male!" (it may have been part 1 of this thread), at a time I was offline. When I logged on the next day, I found a couple of pages of people saying "I thought he was a she" or "I thought she was a he", & explaining that they hear me in a female voice or male voice.

(see what I did there - masculine first in 1 example, femenine first in the other!:p)

It isn't really an issue to me, but became very funny - perhaps only to me? That said, I'm sure there are 1 or 2 people who are moving towards the "I really wanna know now" phase... Like I say, I wanted more than anything to challenge the assumptions that we make.



BTW, I have female friends who definitley call other ladies hot!

mystic_trev

lemonjelly wrote: »

I think perhaps you should start a thread.;):D
That is funnnnneeeeee!:D

Better not - but I think it's 'Karma'

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=31096831&postcount=31

Nice of him to provide some photos. I thought he didn't run his car on Petrol?

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=30902433&highlight=#post30902433

I know it's a Micra, but he's got to run it on something? Ahhh I see, he just leaves it off the handbrake and pushes it everywhere :rotfl:

lostinrates

I looked at an insight today. I think I'm going to test drive the insight & the smart roadster. Head says one, heart says another. Procrastination might be the order of the day because learned about the Honda CR-Z. I wish I got cars. I wish I had a car-y husband. I hate the whole car-y thing.

fedupfreda

lemonjelly wrote: »

It isn't really an issue to me, but became very funny - perhaps only to me? That said, I'm sure there are 1 or 2 people who are moving towards the "I really wanna know now" phase... Like I say, I wanted more than anything to challenge the assumptions that we make.

It isn't really an issue to me either, LJ. Just I remembered the past thread, and thought 'Aha!'

Shame on me for being presumptive, I suppose.

Anyhow, must leave, things to do.

Have a good evening, all.

lemonjelly

fedupfreda wrote: »

It isn't really an issue to me either, LJ. Just I remembered the past thread, and thought 'Aha!'

Shame on me for being presumptive, I suppose.

Anyhow, must leave, things to do.

Have a good evening, all.

There's no shame on anyone freda.:o
But people could shame themselves if, in some situations in life they make assumptions which turn out to be bad ones to make.

I just hope my prompting/challenging will help some not to make those assumptions, and ultimately not make those mistakes. Being wholly optimistic, it may help them treat others better too.:)

JonnyBravo

lemonjelly wrote: »

There's no shame on anyone freda.:o
But people could shame themselves if, in some situations in life they make assumptions which turn out to be bad ones to make.

I just hope my prompting/challenging will help some not to make those assumptions, and ultimately not make those mistakes. Being wholly optimistic, it may help them treat others better too.:)

That's as maybe.... but you're definitely a bloke.
I'd bet a lot of money on it.

lemonjelly

JonnyBravo wrote: »

That's as maybe.... but you're definitely a bloke.
I'd bet a lot of money on it.

How much you got to lose?;)

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

How much you got to lose?;)

Hmm, or alternatively, how much could you win? suppose JB offers you wageslave and me in boots.....if you're a man....:D

carolt

You're either a bloke or a gay woman.

Sorry, I'm a woman (straight) and you just don't sound like one - I've never met a straight woman who says things like 'hubba hubba!' at pictures of other women - or indeed, at anyhing else, for that matter... :think:

Come to that, I'm not totally sure I've met any men who do that; but then men are generally weird and do peculiar things, so it would seem entirely in character...