Excerpt
As I sit on the wooden bench in the mall I come to the same conclusion stated before....men and women are different! Different, physically, mentally, behaviorally, and emotionally. Men and women are not equal, they are different. I get up from the bench and go through one of the womens dress departments of the anchor store on my way to Tool Heaven for my fence building needs. I hesitate and see our three teen girls that passed me on my way to the mall. They are in front of the mirrors as they try on new outfits. There is an eleventh commandment.... Thou Shall Shop. Our three teens religiously adhere to this commandment. A divergence on the invention of the mirror. Take out your compact mirror and look at yourself as we reflect on your image with this discussion. My girlfriend wears out the mirrors in my van and mirrors are plentiful in her house. Women cant resist taking a peek at any surface reflecting their image. Our three teen girls are no different. Lets look back millions of years to the African savanna while a community of Australopithecus passes by a calm lake on a windy day. They stop for a drink of water and one of the females notices her reflected image in the lake. She smoothes her wind tossed hair out of her eyes and makes sure her continuous eyebrows are straight. The males could care less about looking at their faces and grunt at her in their primitive language to stop primping and rejoin the migrating community. Unearthing relics from the 4th. century B.C., uncovered flat reflective bronze mirrors in Mesopotamia. The bronze mirrors had handles of wood and ivory. In 328 B.C., thats over 2,000 years ago, the Greeks formally organized and sanctioned a school of mirror craftsmanship. The current glass mirror comes to us from Venice, Italy of the 1300s A.D. from Venetian glass blowers. It was perfected by the Frenchman Bernard Perrot in 1687 as he developed mirrors with smooth, undistorted glass surfaces. As you look at yourself, think about the first female to see her image in the calm lake. We are visual creatures. Our three teen girls look intently at their mirrored images and talk of how the outfits compliment their appearance. These outfits and their physical characteristics are sending visual sexual signals and they know this instinctually, subconsciously. They are driven by their heightened state of hormonal activity to attract the male and to be in daily competition with other females. They must win the battle to succeed in prorogation of the species. They must be selected! They must mate! I stop and sit at a discrete distance and watch. They have brought fashion magazines with them and as each new outfit is tried on they compare their look to that of the dog-eared pages of the magazine. There are many areas of the female body that sexually signal and they are looking at all of them in the mirror. Lets consider and understand these areas as our three teen girls try on an endless number of outfits. I will be delicate and discrete in the descriptions.
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