I like the bow because it helps me identify the front when dressing in the dark.
Usually mens underpants come with the inside label at the rear. Ever since a kid I’ve used it to quickly identify the back without even looking. Then a few months ago I bought some boxers which have the label on the side! I know it should be as easy as knowing it’s on the left or right but for some reason I can’t remember this. It takes longer for me to put them on.
Huh. I always just look or feel for the flap.
Why do you get dressed in the dark?
Am vampire
i like the bow because it makes me feel pretty when i drop my pants to use the toilet
Among other things.
What else would one drop to use the toilet?
Shorts. A skirt.
A beat
Skiddlyoddendohdoh
It’s a scat, man!
I usually lift a skirt, personally. Not having to undress as much to use the bathroom is one of the benefits of wearing one. Especially when it’s cold.
For me it really depends. Sometimes up is easier. Sometimes down is easier. Just depends on the situation.
The mic
Really? I can imagine Don Draper saying “… and we put a little bow, just here on the front of the panties, because when women use the toilet, they’ll feel pretty”. And, it seems convincing to a room full of men, but then when women hear it they snicker because in reality women don’t care.
So it’s a vestigial bow?
“To be infantilized by men, which is one of women’s fetishes”.
i wish i could find a girl who didn’t want to be infantilized . it’s shockingly difficult.
I don’t understand the appeal of it. it’s weird af and it actively turns me off.
This is entirely my own experience and may be coincidental (I can’t be arsed to search to see if this is even a thing) but, listening to “Dr Drew” on love line in the 90’s (late night radio), this stuck with me. He was talking about how often women who talk in infantile voices were often abused in their youth. The age/development period in which they were abused can lock them in to a part of that mindset.
Two women I have dated, did this on occasion. They would just drop into a juvenile voice when dealing with something that involved high emotion. In both cases, they confirmed that they had been subjected to physical in one case, and sexual abuse in the other. Re-enforced that one-off conversation I heard when I was little. Yes, the voice annoys me but had I not heard that one-off line from Dr. Drew, I would have probably not had the same level of empathy. The first time I brought up the Dr. Drew conversation, it caused her to break down in front of me.
Needless to say, it may not be something that they can control?
I mean a lot of people just have their voices become higher pitched when they are upset or hysterical it doesn’t necessarily mean they’ve been traumatized. Your throat literally contracts haha
Real
the few women I have dated who weren’t into it, were European. As in raised outside of North American culture. Europeans seem to actually take pride in being adults, which North Americans seem to hate being. I don’t get it at all.
Now that I’m older it’s downright creepy to with a 35+ adult woman who just whips out a baby voice and calls me daddy and thinks she is ‘sexy’ for doing so. ugh.
Nah as a European it’s a thing here too, but would probably say it’s more common here in the UK than on the continent.
American here. Can’t speak for anyone but myself, but I’ve always seen adulthood as the culmination of my loss of freedom and the beginning stages of the rest of my life as a laboring drone. I didn’t actually enjoy much of the first decade of adulthood because I spent the whole time surviving a system I simply am not built for. Now that I’ve made it through those harder bits, my body’s starting to wear on me, and I’m not really able to appreciate life like I could have under more accommodating circumstances. It’s hard not to hate adulthood sometimes. The pieces of me that are still childish are kinda the few remaining parts of me that can still experience joy, barring the moments where others make me feel pathetic for still being childish as an adult.
That said, I agree that the baby voice and daddy stuff just…doesn’t do it for me. I try not to yuck yums, and I know the world of sex is as complicated and diverse as the humans who engage in it, so I’ll just say it’s not for me and leave it at that.
I always understood it as gift unwrapping. A woman’s love freely given is a gift to enjoy in life.
skeuomorph spotted
The triality of (wo)men
Apparently there’s a bunch of losers even on Lemmy who don’t understand it is a privilege and not a right.
Maybe you’re weighing the moral pros and cons but let me assure you that-OH MY GOD SHOOT ME IN THE GODDAMN FACE, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR‽
World vision… When you make a gift of pussy everyone benefits. Estenislav over here, with one leg and the remaining 7 fingers loves his gift of pussy. Donate aa much as possible. Many people depend on your gift of pussy.
Me… I mean, they do call me a pussy. So just add a bow to my underwear?
It’s called a skeuomorph, a vestigial design element that used to be functional but has evolved to be purely decorative. It’s why maple syrup still comes in bottles with those weird little round handles.
The question remains. All underwear had that.
Hypothesis: menswear tends to be more utilitarian, womenswear tends to be more fashionable. A bow would make my cargo pants get caught on shit all the time at work. My girlfriend isn’t moving heavy shit all day, and can afford to wear more decorative stuff
There’s interesting! However, as English is not my mother tongue, I have no idea how to pronounce it even with the phonetics 🤣
English is my mother tongue, and I’m also unclear about how to pronounce it. Skew-oh-morf?
Fun fact: English is one of the only languages where spelling bees are a thing.
I always wonder how spelling bee scenes in shows get translated when dubbed into other languages. Maybe they’re turned into some other kind of academic competition?
Anyone have any insight?
It should be pronounced skew-O- morph, Q after an S usually makes a K sound. Pretty sure it’s a hold over from Latin, for example Populesque.
My favorite example is the QWERTY keyboard being based on typewriters. Just something whimsical about how no matter how much technology advances we will still be using our cyber-typewriters.
Well also it’s just a good way of organizing keys for the english language at least, while it may have meant more for type writers where mistakes were permanent it’s still good for keeping pace with modern computers and phones.
Qwerty was introduced to slow down typing speed so that skilled typists wouldn’t damage the typewriters.
I don’t think you can argue it’s good design for keeping pace with computers and phones when it literally slows people down compared to layouts like Dvorak.
This! It was made specifically to limit functionality to match mechanical constraints. Nothing about QWERTY is inherently ‘good’ for English.
Additionally QWERTZ and AZERTY were adapted from QWERTY to perform the same role for other languages - to reduce jamming by slowing down common letter combinations or separating their input across two hands
I don’t even like calling them “panties,” they’re underwear.
The three genders
He beat me to it >: (
The fourth gender
To help tell the front from the back in the dark.
inside you there are three wolves
(you are at a furry convention)
hahaha
:3
It’s the tiny handle on the syrup bottleIs it still skuomorphism if nobody knows what it’s for or what it represents?
Personally, I wouldn’t buy that maple syrup – not because of the presence / absence of the handle, but because it’s a screw-on top. I get Maple Syrup with a flip-top closure, so that dried syrup doesn’t interfere with opening and closing the bottle.
A handle is a handle. If it’s there, I’m going to use it. I’ll just complain about it after.
I always wondered if those are structurally sound enough to be slung from a small rope.
I’m also not willing to risk my delicious maple syrup to find out.
Water and syrup have about the same weight, give it a shot with an empty bottle.
If it’s filled with water, it wouldn’t be empty
/s
You could probably use it to hang it from a small hook. Like if you wanted a dedicated syrup hook in your bedroom
Ah yes, my bedroom/bathroom syrup. As one does, obviously.
;)
Looking broadly at clothes from around the world, there does seem to be a tendency for masculine clothes to be minimalistic, using straight lines and minimal decorative flair, and feminine clothes to have more decorative elements ranging from simple pleating to expansive ruffles and lace, more visible patterns, and more curves, whether as part of the garment or as part of the body shown through the garment.
Men’s clothes used to be fancier, especially in Europe, until Beau Brummell started a minimalist trend. We still base men’s suits on the basic outfit he wore, including the colors.
Look how minimal this looks
Goes back to human nature. Like birds where one sex will be decorating the nest while the other due different duties. Human the same. Unless you are a pigeon.
Ah yes, human, the famous birds, all of them.
Well, according to Diogenes…
