I had a hunch the numbers of males and females had changed. I did a little research, and it turns out they had. In my younger years, the males were basically slobs and the girls were dressed up and painted up. What follows are some generalities, I can think of many exceptions among people I know, and I don’t want anyone who is still my generation’s idea of ‘manly’ to be offended. You know who you are.
In nature, the gender that is in the majority is on easy street, style wise. The female peacock doesn’t need a big fan of colourful feathers to attract a mate, there are more male peacocks so the female is pretty much guaranteed a mate. It’s the males who need to compete. Go watch the nature channel for a while and you’ll see the majority-sex animal doing dances, engaging in ritualized head butting and running around in beautiful feathers, while the minority gender quietly looks on.
Here’s where things started getting weird for me. Our three girls started getting interested in boys. The two oldest girls mostly dated boys who were boyish, but the youngest one kept getting boyfriends who were more pretty and dainty than her. I even asked one poor kid at the door if his parents were hoping for a girl when they raised him. Even the older girls occasionally commented that their boyfriends took longer to get ready to go out and spent more time on their clothes and hair than they did. Then of course I found myself out and about some times, no doubt watching a hockey game at the pub. In came troupes of boys with their hair moussed, dressed in perfect clothes, watching themselves in reflections. Naturally, they were still boyish in that they wore male clothes and had very boyish hair cuts and tatoos and walked with a cowboy swagger. But the fact that the ‘look’ was a premeditated act, not merely man as found in nature, was puzzling. Conventional wisdom from my youth was that girls didn’t go looking for guys with moussed hair who hit the gym because such guys were self-absorbed. Who wanted a guy looking at himself in the mirror when the girl has spent time getting herself looking good? Probably a selfish lover, too.
Conventional wisdom from days gone by also had it that females outnumbered males. More boys are born than girls, that has never changed, but boys were much more likely to die as infants and toddlers, and teenage boys – showing off mostly – died at double the rate of girls. By the mid teens, girls were the majority gender and the surviving boys merely had to have a pulse to have a chance at mating.
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Maybe this switch in demographics will allow younger women to dress more casually and give up the make up. It may be a desirable show of confidence.
Micheal looking lovely, as always.
