I have a friend whom I really do like immensely on so many levels. She's funny, sarcastic, hilarious, empathetic at times and the wife of my SO's very good friend. We get along most of the time pretty well. She actually is quite beautiful but the light pink lipstick and the short miniskirts are kind weird sometimes. What really makes things seem odd to me is pigtails on a 40 year old when you're all going out. It's a shame that she feels the need to dress herself more like a 20 year old when she looks 30 most of the time that she dresses normally. It's not cool and it's not attractive to my SO. We've talked about it a bit.
The little girl voice pisses me off on so many levels. Often it's so deliberate in trying to get one's way. It's manipulative and degrading both the to the female and should be embarrassing to a man that a woman would think that by acting like a child, she could get something out of him.
I'm starting to feel a bit old these days when I walk through lingerie sections of stores. I look at the fabric and how much of my boobs the bra will hold, not necessarily the amount of nipple that will show. I still think you can be sexy in a beautiful bra or pair of panties that doesn't have some snarky comment or Laura Ashley lace on it. Don't get me wrong, I do have both of those items (well, not little-girl lace, but some lacey stuff) and they're fun, but not what I would put on to turn on my man or to feel sexy. I think VS is trying too hard to cater to a certain population that likes to wear "PINK" on their asses. Which is fine, because they're still in business. They're just not for me. Or my SO, which works well.
I'd rather be a grown-up, without pink sparkly anything or so many labels... rather in what makes me feel sexy. Which is an "adult" feeling to me.
Did that even come close to addressing the OP? Sorry, shesus... I'm a little more ADD than usual today. 2oz of freshly roasted ethiopian yrgicheff (sp?) at three in the afternoon jacked me through the roof.
here's my little background disclaimer, though... I worked with sexually abused kids for about three years, so the whole completely shaved thing and teen role-playing take me back there, not somewhere fun.