Comments on: A blog on Roman History & Archaeology, etc.

By: wren

wren — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:27:38 +0000

The hair should have been a tip-off.

By: agnostic

agnostic — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:48:04 +0000

That guy's about where I was 5 years ago, so nothing personal, but it's a bit too competitive. What I mean is, there are two aspects of sexual selection: courtship of opposite-sex mates and same-sex competition.

Nowadays, as long as you don't look like a complete schlub, girls don't care how put-together you look. It may enhance your appeal, but it's not worth it when you think of how else you could be spending your time, money, and effort.

However, if done right, it'll make you feel more confident, allow you to push other guys around more (you have to dress in a powerful rather than fashionable way, though), and make people act more subserviently toward you in public. The effects of these changes will make you more attractive to girls -- so it's indirect.

But that website, and many others like it, fall victim to the male tendency to get too lost in competing with other guys. Guys who work 100-hour weeks to get girls, or who obsess over which car to get and how exactly to trick it out, or whatever other silly things guys compete over. Clothing and style included.

You're probably already spending most of your day competing with other guys on the job -- your free time should be spent mostly around girls, in courtship mode (even if it's just flirting with your friends for good practice), and not on an after-hours shift of competing with guys over sports trivia, cars, clothing, bla bla bla.

By: razib

razib — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:56:07 +0000

Kinowear has some excellent and well-researched articles on male fashion.

but we already have assman.... :-)

By: Sebastian Flyte

Sebastian Flyte — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:45:31 +0000

Kinowear has some excellent and well-researched articles on male fashion.

This virtual stock exchange is good fun too, maybe read this book first.

By: razib

razib — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:27:04 +0000

ah, more like toynbee than i’d have thought.

By: gc

gc — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:16:32 +0000

Blistering review:

http://www.elginism.com/20060202/316/

I'm not qualified enough to judge the fights historical...

By: razib

razib — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:12:48 +0000

a little more compact in exposition than arnold toynbee i assume you mean....

By: gc

gc — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:10:45 +0000

Historians are different today…

Am I a freak to think this is freaky? :)