I just gave a tour at the aquarium & a student had a peice in her navel & asked her why she has one. She proceeded to pull up her shirt to show quite a bit of area & said ‘I like them’.
Another interesting thing is when a woman goes to the gyno. They fold their panties up very carefully & put them in the purse…as it if matters all that much…it’s not like guys do that.
Ewww. Didn’t mean to come in so late on this thread, but this evening at a concert I saw a young woman with an inch-wide choker tattooed around her throat! With dangles tattooed on in the front!
She’s going to look like she was strangled in 40 years when it all blurs. Ewww.
Handy, I’m not sure how much experience you have in the gyno office, but I worked in one for 2 summers. I never saw any woman fold her panties and put them in her purse. Most of them, and I do this too, fold the panties and lay them inside my trousers. The reason for doing this is very simple. I know that my gyno is about to see inside my most private body area and reach into unfortunate places, but I’m just not conditioned to leave my knickers lying about for anyone to see. Folded inside my trousers, they are safely out of field of vision but still where I will need them once left alone to get dressed.
Even assuming your purse theory is correct, I’d say the same rule applies. We just don’t want to leave our knickers lying about.
As to the OP, low rise jeans, clunky shoes, breast implants…and permanents. Hair permanents are fairly odd. Adding smelly chemicals to your hair in order to make it curly. I’ve had them before though, so I can’t judge.
Tanning. It’s just plain stupid.
The current two fads amongst female teenagers that grosses me out are the low rider pants and G-strings, together. These girls bend over and half of the damn underwear creeps up. Yecch! Keep in mind many girls are doing this, including the borderline obese ones.
I really don’t want to know that much about these girls, really.
Bone piercing, Sunspace??? That sounds both gross and pretty dangerous.
Gah. Gahhhh.
Nobody’s said yet that corsets hurt, and I’m glad, because they really don’t. They just make you feel breathless. Nowt hat I think about it, wearing something in order to give your body the right shape isn’t a whole lot weirder than anorexia or fanatical bodysculpting exercise. At least, I don’t think so.
Lissla, occasional wearer of corsets.
Well, I’ve got my little girls name and birthdate in a heart on my upper arm. I’m pretty certain that’ll be a keeper.
Lissla, while corsets may be no weirder than anorexia or bodysculpting that doesn’t make it unweird. I find them all to be off-putting.
But that’s clearly just me. I’d prefer a woman who just was rather than one who obsessed (not saying you do) with appearance and make up and changes and such. I’ve always thought that showed a lack of personal confidence.
Not that our marketing culture isn’t designed about promoting women’s insecurities or nothing. Nope, not at all.
“Most of them, and I do this too, fold the panties and lay them inside my trousers.”
—Wow! After two summers, your trousers must have been stuffed with panties!
Lissla, I realised after I posted that my post might be misinterpreted… My friend passed a carved piece of bone or cartilage through a loop of the skin on the back of his hand. He did not pierce any of his own bones.
That still seems less weird to me than corsets or teddies or stiletto heels or any of that stylised female wear.
A couple (over age of 60) pass quite a lot at the pharmacy where i work. I had the privilage of enduring many yawn-inducing stories of their wonderful life. The have a house in Hawaii, i’ve learned. Well that explaines the burnt-toast color of their skin. The interesting part, however, is the nature of their skin.
Wrinkles, yeah sure…but not the soft little ones all over…more like a shirt that just came out of the washer. Major Folds…
I had the urge to bring an iron…
As far as tatoos…i have a big black dragon at the bottom of my right-side ribs… if anything. By the time i’m old, i could just drop a boob and hide hide it 
Lissla Lissar, as I understand it, a properly fit corset is snug but not crushing. Whereas at periods in history they were worn tighter. I read a book once that some women had their floating ribs removed so they could get a tighter waist in their corset. That’s pretty extreme.
Here’s a makeup fad that’s not extreme, but odd to me: women who wear two distinct lip colors, an inner line of a lighter color surrounded by a wide band of darker color, often purple. ??? This looks pretty clownish to me. I can handle ruby lips, but not pink and purple swirl. Looks like someone slugged you in the mouth.
Okay, here’s a new one: the “Girls Gone Wild” phenomenon - girls (and women) baring their breasts to crowds of strangers, especially video cameras, at everything from Mardi Gras to spring break to random parties. Pretty much anyplace you get a crowd of partigoers in public, this is occurring. I heard Kentucky Derby. Now I have nothing against women showing me their breasts, in public or otherwise, but I just don’t get this.