[CZARCAR]

TP usage?...abussage?

[jackdcosta56]

if you talk about the physique .. yes they are else i think they have a similar soul.

[neilep]

Men are the same as women...just inside out !!    []


There was a quote I remember form a Star Trek TNG episode..."Men are human...women..... are women"

[CliffordK]

TP usage?...abussage?

I realize the 1 or 2 rolls a year that I use is awfully wasteful...  but sometimes it is just worth it!! 

[Karsten]

I keep noticing that occasionally girls get typically boy's first names. Jordan, Jesse, Logan, etc. Few boys receive girl's first names. At least it seems that way to me where I live (New England). In addition to the clothing issue discussed above, I wonder if it is that men/boys shy away from being identified as members of the still less powerful half of humans on this planet while girls obviously don't have a problem with the opposite. I don't buy that this is a difference beyond "current behavior".

[cheryl j (OP)]

Men do not wear blouses. Just shirts. Women can wear either.
Men do not wear high heals. Women do (although they shouldn't).
Men do not wear decorative scarves as part of an ensemble. Women do.

You must be young and werent around for the 60s, but surely you saw an Austin Powers movie or two, and they did wear exactly that, and grow their hair long. Why clothing styles shift like that occasionally, I'm not sure, and there is something more taboo breaking about males wearing feminine clothing. Its almost a boast, as in, I'm so confident of  my maleness, that I can wear anything. It sends some kind of message. I think the reason why women in male clothing isnt as provocative is that one assumes its for practical reasons.  Even before feminism, I suspect a women would put on a pair of mens pants to go out and hoe a field rather than drag the hem of her dress through the dirt. Dresses are not great in snowstorms.

What is more interesting, and probably more related to my original point in the first post, is not men wearing women's clothing or women wearing men's clothing, but a sort of androgenous look that started with people like David Bowie and hasnt really stopped. Although, when it comes to sex and advertising, clothes that emphasize the differences between men and women are still alive and kicking.

[Gordian Knot]

I keep noticing that occasionally girls get typically boy's first names. Jordan, Jesse, Logan, etc. Few boys receive girl's first names.

Arrghh! Don't even get me started on this whole girls using boy's names!!!!!! LoL. I hate this trend more than all of the others combined.

But for Cheryl's sake, back to the point of her first post. I could not disagree with you more. (Well, actually I probably could, but ........). Despite some homogenizing between the sexes in clothing and names, they remain very different.

Keeping to the magazine angle:

Women's magazines are made in such a way as to cater to women. Men's are catered towards them. Not that there isn't some crossover of readers, which, of course there is. And there are magazines that are about subjects interesting to both sexes.

Predominantly though, magazines are focused on one sex or the other because publishers make the most money that way. Simple economics. If the product does not make money, it will not be published.

ps. Cheryl wrong on both counts. I was around during the '60's; long hair on men wasn't as much a fashion statement as a form of rebellion.  And I wouldn't watch an Austin Powers movie if you begged me!!!!!