why do we consider women who e.g. wear high heel shoes, long nails, thin etc. feminine? are there ........?

Question

oppressive reasons behind them? who or what creates the ideal female body, who chooses what is feminine and not?
english is not my mother tounge.

and can it be used as a tool for oppression, how?

Answer 1

i don't understand your question without the proper use of punctuation

Answer 2

Having long fingernails just shows that the person with them does not have to do her own house work. I don't find them particularly feminine.

If a woman wears high heels, the calf of the leg is bunched up and I guess some men like that. Wearing high heels and pants would sort of defeat that part. However, to keep her balance on high heels, a woman is forced to stick her back side out a bit and the same with her breasts. Feminine? I'd say so as those parts are considered sexually arousing to men.

Oppressive? Fingernails no, high heels probably. Women in high heels develop physical problems in their feet and sometimes legs and back all for image.

Who creates the ideal female body? Industry. In the 1920s, women were supposed to have flat chests so that corset companies could sell bindings. Today, big chests are fashionable to sell push-up bras and implants. In a few years, it will be something else to separate women from their money. What that will be is anybody's guess and you can bet the designers are working on that now.

Answer 3

these ideas can be constructed from many different places, and wether they are oppressive ideas or not depends on the ideas surrounding the purpose of a female body.

the construction of femininity can come from biology, or from the image industry. Biologically, the ideal female body would be large hips and large breasts because this implies the capability of ease in childbirth and the ability to nourish babies. Industrially, it depends on what makes money. In the US it behooves clothing companies to encourage a smaller body type, as it makes clothing production cheaper, and then they can pad their bottom line.

as to whether these things are oppressive and what makes them so, it depends on the culture of the area. if either standard of femininity is used as the only judge of a woman's worth as a human being, then these things are quite oppressive

Answer 4

I consider women who wear uncomfortable clothing and use a lot of their time and place a lot of value on "looking good", someone who may be out on the town, or someone who I'm probably going to avoid, since we aren't going to have a lot in common. I think if you "dress up" once in a while, that's great.

If you dress up all the time, I think you have a very different way of life than the one I've chosen, and hope you get a great deal of enjoyment out of the choices you've made. I hope that they're not doing it because its the only way they can feel good about themself, or because they think they "have" to look that way to be a woman, or be feminine.

I think the companies that want to sell women's clothing, shoes, make-up, etc try to convince women what is "feminine" to sell their products, just like they try to tell men how to be "masculine" to sell their equally useless products. These companies try to prey on men and women's insecurities, and try to tell both men and women how they're supposed to look.

Many of us (both women and men) are tired of being told to use ridiculous products to look "good", and are relying on common sense instead.

Answer 5

Name another oppressive thought than a high heeled, long nailed Rosie O'Donnell? AAAAHHHHH!!!

Answer 6

Interesting that the only women I know who dress that way are transgendered...