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Source: Cleavage goes bust: Vogue declares the décolletage over

Since we’ve been discussing delusion, here’s a story that illustrates how pompous are the opinions of those self anointed culture and fashion gurus.

Decolletage over.  Hmm. Well, if we step back and take a top down view of the issue of cleavage, we’d have to concede that breasts have probably been overexposed as a fashion staple over the past generation.  Fashion runways, teen magazines and of course, certain ubiquitous personalities have ridden the fascination with chest exposure to dubious fame, notoriety and ample rewards.  Let’s not beat our chest on whether this is deserved or not, but I think we can agree that much of this fame is way over the top.

Coy glimpses of femininity never goes out of style, but fashion tastes have veered to the extreme. The de rigueur exposure of chest skin by women, especially those in entertainment,  makes them look like castings for a Russ Meyer film.  Even Russ could not have imagined the grotesque degrees that women would go to in order to ensure that no one would ever see the color of their eyes.

This is mainly an American phenomenon,  for like most things in America, if something is good, then more of it must be better.  Personalities such as Kim Kardashian and Nikki Minaj to name just a few, make the most of this craze for improbably shaped women to great commercial advantage.  Well, Vogue says that this is over.

As in a previous article about the fashion downfall of ‘manly men’, I’d be a bit skeptical of this pronouncement and wouldn’t expect the immediate demise of the push up bra. It’s one thing to dictate fashion affectations as padded shoulders, bell bottoms or short skirts.  It’s another to even consider that some New York fashionistas will dictate what is intrinsically attractive about the natural characteristics of the sexes.

On the other hand, there will always be that contingent of fashion slaves that need to be directed by a small cabal of style mavens as to what’s in vogue.  I’ve always thought this to be quite strange since I didn’t think people needed direction on the appeal of the opposite sex. As for those women who are concerned about being unfashionable after Vogue’s pronouncement; my advice is, don’t be concerned.  I’m sure someone will find you stylish, even if it’s only red blooded men.

Source: Germany now has North Africas sex crime troubles – Chicago Tribune

Those that have been following the news may have noticed that men from non western cultures do not have quite the same respect for acceptable protocols concerning women as they do in the west.  Of course, that’s kind of like saying Kim Kardashian is a flirt but this realization is dawning upon those that have created policies welcoming new cultures with expectations of easy assimilation.

It shows a naivete that is borne from lack of experience, or much worse, an inability to accept reality.  Outside the PC borders of western societies, men are treated as disposable commodities, much less women.   Imagine coming from a culture in which the exposure of a woman’s ankle is considered unacceptably lurid to being plopped into one in which women frequently dress like Taylor Swift.  What could go wrong?

The naive premise that everyone’s the same and worships the same set of values is as wrongheaded as expecting dogfish to fetch sticks.   There is and always has been a great divide in the view of women’s roles in society between the Judeo Christian/Secular and the Muslim based cultures.  In the 21st century, you’d like to think that death is a bit of an extreme penalty for showing an elbow, or that a display of calf is the same as an open for business signal.  But in some extreme Muslim societies, those views do exist.

In the extreme case of the ISIS group, women are explicitly held to be chattel and in fact, there are codified instruction manuals on rape protocols.  “Well, you can do the mother but not the daughter” or  “Only after prayers, but not before lunch”.  In the news today is an item which claims that an ISIS member executed his own mother for the crime of trying to talk him into leaving ISIS.

It’s no wonder the ISIS men are so savage; they can’t find women of free will to date them. What would be the sales pitch? “Well you can’t come out in the daytime unless covered completely in a designer sackcloth; you can’t speak unless spoken to, you need to do whatever, whenever; you get beaten when the mood strikes and are eligible to be stoned to death if you glance at the plumber…what’s a good wedding date?”.  How do they stop women from flooding in to hook such manly men?

If such behavior were exhibited in western cultures, the man would be in jail as fast as shrimp disappears from the buffet table, or at least be the subject of much squawking on The View.  Apologists are brushing off this behavior as if it was simply a function of religious differences.   What is needed is an end to the appeasement attitude and an acknowledgement that this kind of stuff has little to do with religion.  It is not only illegal in our culture, it’s inhumane and as the Brits say, it’s frowned upon.  Anybody who fears offending ISIS or apologizing for any anti-social behavior in the name of religious sensibilities should be made to live among them.