Hot or Not?
The most popular common phrases that the majority of men use while describing women are typically Wow! She is hot! and Oh! She is not hot at all. I perceive this attitude as disgusting and my usual response is “blah blah blah!” that reflects how I am not comfortable with the status of women in our societies either locally or globally as a man and human.
Hot or Not!
Discourse and Women Features
For a long time, women had been stereotyped into this lower rank category of “Hot or Not” which became the fuel for feeding this endless debate among different discourses either being liberal or conservative that have nothing to deal with women except her body.
It is notable how lights of various discourses have been spotted over the external features of women that I call “The Hardware”, whereas same lights have been dimmed when it comes to the internal features represented in her mind that I call “The Software” – strange but true!
C’mon! Hardware can not run unless software is found, right? So in other words, it is all about the mentalities that deal with this issue regardless the race, sex and religion. Hereby the Hot or Not attitude reveals that humanity have not pass over the teenager period yet despite being at the threshold of the 21st century of what is supposed to be human progress and still practicing sexism in its different forms and outlets.
I have elaborated before that Men and Women are equal in the rights yet they are completely different either on the physical state or the mental one. These differences were founded by Almighy Allah (swt) – GOD – in order to achieve an integration that fulfills the mission of creation. This is why the two extremes of “Women are the root of evil” and “Women are our baby-doll beauty idols” are not welcomed by me as Man and human
In a nutshell, the way that the beast is chasing beauty shall fade away when both men and women understand the rasion d’être for their living on this planet Earth; only when this happened, many stereotyped images shall be self-corrected but it is all about our human intellect my dears!
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Published by Hicham Maged on August 9, 2008 - 3:35 PM
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August 10th, 2008 @ 01:24
Very good insight! I enjoyed reading your post and agree with the points that you have made, of course I am a women which has colored my view a little, but I feel we should stop judging people by their looks with words that are somewhat degrading and maybe look at the person for who they are.
August 12th, 2008 @ 00:16
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August 17th, 2008 @ 16:29
a lot of men and women are very superficial … it is sad that sometimes most of us just gives so much attention to what we see and what we could possibly discover about another person.
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October 3rd, 2008 @ 17:23
Have to laugh at the analogy of comparing a woman’s looks at hardware. Refreshing point of view and a welcome one.
Is MAN not hardwired to reponse to a woman’s hardware?
Is it duty to overcome this “animal” nature and animal response or embrace it?
Isn’t it the hardware that attracts but the software that makes you stay? In a sea of choices the quickest way to “choose” to pursue something is by site. Interested in your thoughts on this.
October 4th, 2008 @ 19:18
@ K. Fields: Indeed; the person for who they are not how they look.
@ MariahByron: How true! however sometimes beliefs are being faked by people not from the original source
@ Cher: unfortunately c’est la vie and I hope humans can upgrade themselves to overcome this.
@ Lisa- Unschooling Mom: Both are hardwired yet the problem is in the software! Don’t you think that we need to perform a ‘clean format’ and reinstall
October 8th, 2008 @ 12:54
Since people are superficial as regards their reactions generally, we can’t expect anything different in regard to women.
Or can we? People are more important than things. If we put a lot of effort into training ourselves and our children to use computers, technology, etc., shouldn’t we put even more effort into teaching our to rightly see, appreciate, and relate to other persons?
October 8th, 2008 @ 22:17
@ John: Very interesting point, John. It’s all about mentalities then so we can if we want too!
October 21st, 2008 @ 17:56
Yes, I believe it is pretty rediculous of how we view, “hot” now a days.
October 22nd, 2008 @ 22:10
@elmo live: ridiculous + non-human + barbarian too!
October 28th, 2008 @ 13:07
Is MAN not hardwired to reponse to a woman’s hardware? Comic Sharing Community
October 28th, 2008 @ 16:28
I think its hot. BUt its depend on some individuals.
November 3rd, 2008 @ 11:55
yup. usually, i will said like that. Ya..last nite, that girls really hot and cute!!
November 6th, 2008 @ 06:59
Sometimes we can tell if she is hot or not through our naked by its gestures or on how they dress up.But you are also right that we cannot predict automatically if the hardware is hot until we didn’t test the software..really great!
November 12th, 2008 @ 16:46
@ harmano: Hardware is useless without the softi
@ tunepal: Which one
@ tunepal: Indeed
November 17th, 2008 @ 07:33
I feel sad when I hear young men or teenagers describing women or ladies to be hot or something a bit disrespectful.
I totally agree that hardware is useless without software.
and I feel that it is a responsible of parents to guide their son on how to respect women.
November 30th, 2008 @ 21:12
well i think this is not the only stereotyped way of thinking we meet, peopleusually use their stereotypeed thinking to help themselves or give themselves an excuse why they had that impression and acted upon, i think it all lies that most of us gets satisfied what appears to their eyes and that is it, we need to use our minds and souls more to know others and take the risk of gettingcloser to know oothers better
December 1st, 2008 @ 18:16
These days everything is turned upside down. Many times I see and hear how women discuss whether this or that man is hot or not. So this is no longer one-way street traffic.
March 6th, 2009 @ 16:54
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more beauty tips from you in the future.
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