--- On Mon, 8/6/09, ss <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: ss <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [silk] The Illusion of Sex
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Monday, 8 June, 2009, 8:31 PM
> On Monday 08 Jun 2009 2:05:22 pm
> Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote:
> > Well that seems to be it. I did some amateur photoshop
> modifications to the
> > image and making the lips lighter did make the image
> look more masculine.
> >
> > And I'm very surprised at this outcome.
>
> I did not mention thicker fuller lips as a sign of
> femininity because I cannot
> recall having read any descriptions to that effect - unlike
> the other
> features I mentioned.
>
> Having said that i wonder if the larger lip-to-face surface
> area ratio is
> important for femininity. Women have smaller faces - a
> feature that is
> accentuated by fuller hair. The woman who invites more
> (male) attention (and
> female irritation) is the one who fluffs up her hair
> around her head rather
> than one who ties it all back. But this is not apparent in
> the picture. So
> the lips possibly play a bigger role.
>
> Attractiveness and femininty are also indicated by the
> effects of estrogen -
> i.e. A full, thick head of hair and breasts. And the
> hips of course. The
> wide hips promising a wide pelvic birth canal
>
> And I can't resist this one..
>
> Doctor: "Big breaths!"
> Patient: "Yeth. And I'm only thixthteen!"
>
> shiv
Aw Shiv! You're taking me back to Class X. How we fell over each other on this
one.
>
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