Thanks for the summaries Madness.
It's just what I read, one interpretation of many. I thought it might bring some clarity to the conversation?
Mike
history & cosplay - the appeal towards sexual attraction is a reflection of (history) and embodied by (cosplay) a percentage of females (Callan)
The history part - I never said that.
Well, we have a long history of people fighting bare skinned in our own RL history, right down to 'skyclad'
Yes, agreed on all counts. My issue is that our culture results in those conclusions to begin with.
Can you clarify? Culture is mutable.
I always hesitate to declare a thesis stating that society is wrong and should change, because the process of amending a culture is a lesson in futility (or luck). Unless I'm a Dunyain, there is no telling whether my micro-effort will affect macro-change in a way that I intended, or have the opposite effect (or not change anything at all, which is the likely statistical outcome).
Aside - No. Please.
I refuse to countenance such thoughts. Inaction is still affecting macro-change in ways other than you intended and are, probably, already detrimental. We act as a collective individually and so individually we're all already part of the human, and universal, weave. Be daring. The world started a cracked omelette - all that good people do by stepping back from the game is allow others all the play time.
Thus I suspect the reluctance to completely eliminate the sexy women is largely due to the uncertainty involved. Giving up the sexy may cost you more consumers than you gain.
This, I think, reflects Morpheus' Matrix/Agent metaphor. Any system that exists entirely dependent on those entities that constitute it, even if they don't explicitly support the system, will fight against that which threatens the whole.
I've had... countless conversations with people about representation in advertising - change is far more threatening to people than the idea that we might be forcing little girls and little boys to simply accept these mechanized gender roles, thus perpetuating its cycle.
Gall... this makes me think about Christmas all over again.