Imperi wrote:
Rafael wrote:
Getting beach bodies. Or trying to, at least.
Waste of time. Feeding into societal expectations of body. Cavemen didn't know what they looked like and didn't care... they fought for survival every day. Body images don't matter.
BTW, you are wrong about this too. Assessing attractiveness by looks is one of the most animalistic and primal traits remaining in human. It's not a society expectation. It may be a society construct, but it comes from the way we are fundamentally wired.
Men needed healthy consorts who could bear children and not die in giving birth. This is actually still a concern in many semi-indegenious cultures. Women needed men who were strong enough to provide food and do all the necessary functions associated with survival. Each was aware of this and thus strove to eat and stay at a healthy weight to attrack each other.
These elements still exist today, they just have changed slightly. But they are imprinted in our instinct when measuring up potential mates. So it's actually the most animalistic and primal hungers we try to sate. It makes sense as in a society where intellectual prowess is the greatest path to enormous power and wealth (because we have machines and social structure that takes of things our ancestors did not), looks are still a factor in attractiveness.