The Truth About the Bits

Apparently a belief has arisen over recent years that guys who like breasts are right wing and guys who like butts are left wing. I encountered a few comments referring to this during the Sydney Sweeney ad controversy. A few days ago I saw this article on The Guardian praising the resurgence of thong bikinis. This paragraph from the article is such a bald attempt at social engineering and manipulation that I find it sort of thrillingly revolting:

Gen Z, in particular, are less inclined to restrict themselves to clothes deemed to be “flattering” – a term that has fallen spectacularly out of favour. Thong bikinis, once the preserve of those who conformed to a particular body type, are now being manufactured in a more inclusive range of sizes and marketed more diversely.

Fallen "spectacularly" out of favour? Did someone throw it off building?

Yes, here's another left-winger from a tiny, wealthy percentage of the world's population implying that the vast majority of people are living under the delusion that some people are prettier than others. "Flattering" is so over, don't you know. Meanwhile the article itself only has pictures of fashion models in the bikinis.

As I wrote a few weeks ago in my post about Sydney Sweeney and beauty, I'm a liberal who's forced to watch while my side digs itself deeper and deeper into a rhetorical trench of a rarefied reality perception that makes us seem crazy enough that even someone like Trump seems preferable to many. Please, please stop doing this, folks. I mean, isn't dividing up a woman's body for political purposes inherently anti-feminist anyway?

Well, I'd be lying if I said I didn't see the logic. Large butts are more common than large breasts, making them vaguely more--what?--democratic? Natural butts are not markers of gender, a transwoman has a better chance of having a naturally curvy butt than large breasts. These guys tie large breasts to Nazi Germany and the stereotypical image of the Bavarian barmaid with a lowcut blouse.

However, when you're talking about sociological philosophies influencing impressions of body parts, dividing them up among factions seems to be putting the cart before the horse. People have bodies first and political opinions second. And, as I argued in my previous post, beauty is too mysterious, too full of contradictions, exceptions, and oddballs to be truly adaptable to any box. Beauty has power, but a lot of that power comes from the fact that no-one's really sure how to attain it. All you can really say is . . .