Well, let me put it this way. Do you find awesome sexy in a woman? I know I do.
Anyhow, women looking pretty to impress/intimidate is more of a status competition thing I think. Status competition in and of itself doesn't qualify as the heroic connection the article is talking about. As a parallel, competition over having the most expensive car wouldn't necessarily qualify.
As for seperating beauty and sex, let me be clear. I tend to think that sort of badass competition will tend to have homoerotic or heteroerotic connotations. This does not mean that they are primarily sexual. It just means it's there. When you do things like throw in hordes of beefcake or skin on top of the connections, it becomes more prominent.
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Date: 2007-06-29 03:42 am (UTC)Anyhow, women looking pretty to impress/intimidate is more of a status competition thing I think. Status competition in and of itself doesn't qualify as the heroic connection the article is talking about. As a parallel, competition over having the most expensive car wouldn't necessarily qualify.
As for seperating beauty and sex, let me be clear. I tend to think that sort of badass competition will tend to have homoerotic or heteroerotic connotations. This does not mean that they are primarily sexual. It just means it's there. When you do things like throw in hordes of beefcake or skin on top of the connections, it becomes more prominent.