Short skirts. Blonde hair. Stilettos. False eyelashes. These are the images that come to mind when I recall the past few days. Yes, that's right. I went shopping.
In Fukuoka especially, there are made-up young women with tiny shorts and skirts and big hair everywhere. I suppose they are trying to look sexy or cute or pretty. I mean, they certainly go all out with some goal in mind. It seems like one can only be cute and pretty to a certain extent, until there is no cuter or prettier one can get--these girls are at the edge of that--like characatures of 'cute' and 'pretty.'
Is that the ultimate of being feminine, being irresistably cute and pretty? It's hard for me to see it as anything other than trying to attract guys. Can it stand on its own as a sort of 'path to one's self?' Do clothes and make-up and hair make us feminine, and help us find ourselves? Can they??
Just a couple thoughts as I nod off...
Night awl
I tell of my day-to-day experiences in a funky Japanese town from my American viewpoint. This blog could also be called 'Bizarro World', 'Notes From Kyushu, a Smaller Island', or 'Teaching English in Japan: Smash Your Ego in 10 Easy Lessons."
Sunday, November 26, 2006
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4 comments:
many times i did that. put some effort to look pretty just to boost my confidence when i feel low. not intended to attract guys. just wanna get heads turn to me when i pass by. although i know inner beauty is much more important that appearance. :D
ps: nice postings. i like your blog.
It's not being feminine at all if you ask me. It's kinda being a walking advertisement for a product that doesn't exist. Those girls are searching for a self that they will never find. What they will find is an ugly rich man with nothing to offer but more of what lost them in the first place.
Cute is skin deep but true beauty is all the way home...
Thanks, vie!
We're trying to get attention from other people then, when we wear our short skirts, right? What happens if we can't get it, if no one turns their head? What about when we get older and it doesn't work so well any more?
And blu, but isn't there something about the efforts towards cuteness or prettiness that also brings some sort of manliness out of you? Maybe it could be feminine if it compliments manliness?
is there something wrong if we try to get people' attention? no harm done:D. i find people often judge those girls, commenting that they are shallow coz they appear to care only about their looks. i dont agree with this because we know nothing about those girls. it could be that they just having fun at the moment being trendy wearing short skirts put make up, but in other time in their daily life(which we dont know coz we dont see them), they learn and work hard to achieve career or being dutiful to their family etc beside being pretty. i dont know, thus i dont judge.
and to your last question, it changes from time to time. when i was a lil, i wrote poem or drew pictures to get attention from my family. i dont know what will work for me when i get older, but i ll find out later. point is as long as no harm done, to me its ok to do whatever that keep my spirit high in living this life.
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