A conundrum
I was shopping with Adam at Syms. If you don’t mind that most of the suits there make you look like you stepped out of the 50’s, it’s actually not a bad place. Of course, as usually happens when I go shopping with Adam, I end up buying more stuff than he does. I got a sports coat, three ties, and a pair of brown shoes (yes, I wear men’s clothing.)
So we’re in the shoe section. I’ve been looking for a pair of men’s brown shoes for a while, but was never able to find something I liked. While finding just the right pair of shoes, I found a pair of boots that would have been pretty cool had I wanted a pair of men’s black boots. Syms always puts the national average price as well as their price on all their clothing, so I knew that most places would price this pair of boots at around $75.
A pair of comparable boots for a woman at a regular store in NYC (not a discount place like Payless) would start around $80. I know because I was trying to find a pair not too long ago. So women are supposed to spend more for roughly the same pair of boots. And we’re supposed to change them every season, and we’re supposed to have a different pair for every outfit we own.
And at best, the average woman’s salary is 83% of the average man’s salary for the same job.
5/4/2007
Just a thought
Wouldn’t it be great if exercising your mind burned calories? All the years I’ve subscribed to Games Magazine and Games World of Puzzles would result in a svelte size 8. The addictiveness of Conceptis Tech puzzles would mean I could walk into any boutique and fit into any outfit. I’d still go to the gym occasionally (maybe even more than I do now) but it would be to release the endorphins and get that heady rush, not to try to lose inches.
There would be hope for us overweight intellectuals who would rather curl up with a good book than run a mile. We’re not rotting our brains with television (although sometimes a good rot is needed). We have this added stress of wanting to lose weight while really (really really) wanting to break open that new book we got from the library.
Sadly, physics is lacking in this capacity. Science, you’re letting me down. Forget diet pills and lose weight fast “technology”, start working on a way to let the thinkers of the world fit into smaller pants.
Too bad America would still be obese, but that’s another topic for another time…