I think it’s funny that he thinks an already sexy woman should somehow lower her standards to “compete” with what he finds attractive.
He’s basically saying any old thing showing it off is sexy, and if that’s the case, Airman should have no trouble bagging a skank of his very own.
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I agree that the Courtney Love picture is gross and that the Angelina Jolie picture is hot but woudn’t a lot of women still say the AJ outfit is “skanky?”
To me she looks smokin’ in that picture but I wouldn’t be surprised if some women thought she looked “slutty” or “skanky.”
Maybe I’m wrong.
If skanky just means dirty or unclean looking then I agree there’s a difference, I don’t think bare skin, in itself, is skanky, though.
AwSnappity, I guess I don’t want mystery. I want to know what’s doing under those clothes. I think the nakeder the better and I know I’m not the only man who thinks that way.
Isn’t that why you dress? It’s the equivalent of peacock plumage. You dress to show people who you are, what you are, or what you want. There is no other reason. If you wear a suit you’re showing your professionalism (or your respect on some occasions), if you dress like a punk rocker you’re a punk rock fan, if you dress like you are looking for guys, guess what? You’re looking for guys.
Don’t mistake your style for anything but ornamentation that tells people what you’re about. When I’m not identifying myself as a military member with my uniform I’m identifying myself as a Steelers fan with my jacket and hat, and further I am indentifying myself as someone who doesn’t care about his appearance because I wear old, raggedy clothing that I never iron and I rarely shave on my days off. If people like that, great. If not, great. But it is very much indicative of who I am when I’m not at work.
I don’t care if you voice your opinions about women, but when you do it in such a hateful manner (read: skank) I’m going to call you out on it.
Relatively average guy checking in here. Not a big fan of the thong peeking out look. There’s nothing wrong with a great butt in a nice pair of jeans, but when the thongs hanging out, the class level drops wayyyyyy down.
And of course I’m speaking as the universal judge of what is skanky and what is not. :rolleyes:
I can also tell you as a man who has gone on many many many many many shopping trips with my fiancee to find jeans that it is nowhere near as easy as we men have it. For starters, every company that makes jeans for women does their sizes differently. Then there are the styles which includes how they fit, where they fit, how the legs look, how you want to look in them. It confuses me so much that I can’t even begin to help her look.
Compare that to me. I find a color I like and buy a 32/32 regular. Takes five minutes at the most.
Seriously Airman, one guy to another, let the jean thing go. There is no sense down that path. 
If the girl is unattractive it’s wrong! Wrong! Wrong!
If the girl is attractive: Yes! Yes! Oh God, yes!!
Strangely, a lot of women wear them to avoid VPL (Visible Panty Lines) when wearing pants. For whose benefit this is done, I don’t know.
If you’re completely objective, a lot of things that men find sexy seem silly.
Off-the-shoulder peasant blouses
Corsets
French maid outfits
Japanese schoolgirl sailor suits
Fur coat with a bikini underneath
Catholic school girl outfit with pigtails
Garter belts
Supertight jeans that have to be put on in the shower, and taken off with scissors (read this in a story. Don’t know if its possible, but I love the idea)
fishnet stockings
The smell.
Personally, I enjoy the combination of low cut jeans with mounds of teen McMuffin Blubber squeezed out the topside, topped off with a cheap tattoo.
I always think, “you simply can’t resist a thing you see on MTV can you?”
I own nothing but thongs, and I find them much more comfortable than “regular” panties. Panty lines under jeans or dress pants is just a no-no. If you can find a way around it without wearing a thong, go for it, but they really aren’t the “butt floss” people would have you think. I think regular panties give way more of a wedgie than a well-fitting thong.
God, everytime I see these women at my work with their ungodly panty lines I just want to scream. But if I screamed at all of their fashion mistakes, all I’d be doing is screaming. I’m better off just staying in my cube as much as humanly possible. People disgust me./rant
Airman, no, I don’t dress to impress guys. Neither do a lot of women. You’re running on a lot of assumptions here.
And ‘compete or be quiet’? Forget about it.
Nearly every La Senza-type store sells low-rise thongs now, so you can avoid panty lines as well the as the thong T-bar. I think it’s kinda sexy when you can just see a tiny bit of the top of a girl’s thong when she sits down; she’s revealing a little bit and make you wonder what the rest looks like. I think it’s skanky when the thong and butt crack are hanging right out.
However, I never really liked wearing thongs or G-strings - none too flattering when you’re naked. I’ve been really into the boy-short style panties lately. And I agree 100% on trying to find woman’s jeans, especially when you’ve got wider hips and a smaller waist. Apparently, you can only wear women’s jeans if your waist, hips, and thighs don’t curve, as I can only find jeans that fit the hips but gape at the waist (leading to the thong-hanging-out problem) or fit the waist but squeeze my hips.
You forgot “Princess Leia in the slave-girl bikini”.
If you want to make generalizations, Airman, most women dress for other women. I personally dress for comfort, and to keep warm.
AD: Don’t be hatin’. Compete or be quiet.
WTF? Isn’t this the Pit, where people are allowed to gripe about whatever they want?
If the OP had been ranting about an aspect of this woman’s clothing that didn’t have to do with skin exposure—say, that she was wearing striped pants with a polkadot shirt, or something—would you be so upset about it?
I hear plenty of guys laughing at other guys’ clothing, from huge “rapper” pants with butts hanging out of them to designer jeans or cowboy boots. Why are guys so hateful, huh?
People are allowed to have opinions about good taste in clothes, and sometimes you can have negative opinions about the fashion choices of the young and sexy, too.
Guys who dismiss those opinions as mere “jealousy” or “hatefulness” don’t sound perceptive, they just sound desperate. It’s like you’re so crazy to see some young pretty butt that you can’t even process the idea that somebody else might think it unappealing. (And I must say, your cheerful image of a middle-aged father guiltily lusting after centerfolds his daughters’ age, despising women his own age as “old and busted”, and feeling like a pedophile, doesn’t do much to dispel that impression of a desperate, drooling voyeur.)
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What’s the difference between “sexy” and “skanky?”
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About 5 beers…
The relevant equation is
f *(h - b) = S
wherein:
h = is the horniness variable, expressed in the number of weeks since you’ve gotten any
b = the amount of alcohol in your system, defined in beers or equivalent amounts of booze
f = the number of friends who are witness to your glory and/or shame
S = the Skank Factor
The higher the value of the Skank Factor, the more likely you needed to get laid anyway, so who gives a sh*t?
That covers just about every fashion on the planet, doesn’t it?
Airman, speaking as a male, I would appreciate it if you’d do one of two things:
Quit making pronouncements from the male perspective, because you’re embarrassing those of us with a modicum of class; or, alternatively,
If you insist on making pronouncements from the male perspective, don’t be an ass.
Someone took pictures of our cracks! :eek:
The site in question appears to be down, alas.
Nah, I agree with the OP. I’m a guy, and the skank look does nothing for me. It’s like wearing a sign that says, “I’m trying too hard. Please look at me. I crave attention.” Yuck. Those sleazy tatoos and navel piercings and slutty clothes completely ruin for me what would be a perfectly attractive woman. And if they’re not attractive, or have folds of fat bulging out the top of those low-slung jeans, it’s even worse. I saw a girl the other day walking down the street, wearing low-rider pants, and reaching down to pull up her pants every 10 seconds or so. I had to laugh - if you want your pants low, why do you keep pulling them up? Just buy some frickin’ normal pants.
And don’t say I’m sexist, because I have the same reaction to sleazy guys who have their shirts unbuttoned all the way to their navel, yucky tatoos, pants pulled down below their ass, etc.
No, you bombastic fucktard, that is NOT why most women dress. Women dress because–big fucking shocker!–they like the way they look or feel in certain clothes.
And which is it? Are women dressing to impress men, or are we dressing to express who we are and what we want? And if someone’s outfit expesses that she’s a skanky ho, what the fuck is wrong with calling them skanky? You’d have no problem with calling someone in a suit professional, or someone wearing stained sweats slobby, right? So what’s the big hairy fucking deal? Are you really so terrifically insecure that someon disagreeing with you about the attractiveness or appropriateness of letting your underpants and asscrack hang out is causing all this shrill horseshit?
I think part of the issue here is that the woman was dressed this way in a computer lab! It’s not Friday night at the local hangout bar, sweetie. Get a clue. It’s like the (male) student who came into my office wearing enough cologne to make my eyes water: honey, it’s 10 a.m. on a Tuesday! You don’t need cologne to attend your classes and run your errands!
I can find the woman in the OP offensive in a moral way, but it’s really about being offensive in an aesthetic way. Another (female) student, really pretty face, clear skin, startling blue eyes, blonde, silky hair: three rings through her eyebrow, way too much mascara, and reeking of cigarette smoke. Eww! What a waste, y’know?
No, it’s not. It’s college, which can be as big or bigger of a meat market than a bar or club.
Word.