experts

Damn... I think I should stop thinking about thing on trams. It makes me go crazy.

The thing we talked about 'experts' in today's studies lecture started to bug me on the way home. Ordinary people becoming 'experts' and designers losing their expert status… Hmm… I still believe that designers were never the experts like users. I think they believed to be the experts and imposed those expert ideas onto user. I guess the movie “Kitchen Story” illustrate this fact. I know there are designers who are enthusiastic about one area and they are also an ‘expert user’, but after all, the product that they design for is the people who are going to use them.
Maybe, users are becoming better ‘experts’ in designing rather than passively using. With all the information about the product and how they are made and so on, users can start to think about improvement and the way to fix things in their own demands.

Then I stopped thinking…
Got off the tram and started to walk…

health conscious?

How much "health conscious" factors influences metrosexuality?

cosMENity

Girls out there!!! How do you feel if your mind tells you that your man looks prettier than you??? What if he is so~ obsessed with his look and he goes to every skin-care places for his 'Healthy' skin???

applied studies

cosMENity

for MEN...
everything comes with that label these days...
for MEN...

why?

"she was proud of her clever disguise.
The men were MOVED but didn't really understand WHY."

-from JULES AND JIM a film by Francois Truffaut-

Angrogynisation

How far will the marketing push the boundary of the gender difference?

In several domains of the marketing, especially fashion and beauty (aka health?), the aspects of gender difference seems to disappear when it is compared with norms of society. Male models with new autumn collection, looking very feminine, commercials of beauty products 'for men' with very adrogynious faces. It definitely promotes the femininisation of male (maybe feminisation is not the right word for it. Maybe it's the androgynisation of male.).
So, How far will they push this socially (eventually) accepted boundary?
How far can they push it?

Mixed Feelings

Is this what's going on these days?

Tomboy

Men who have been to hard-core gyms will know. They'll know that it is a very scary place. Scary not because of the muscle bounded Arny wanna-bes, but women who lift bench press more than you do. These women will kick your ass in every single physical way. They’ve got better six-pack than you have, they’ve got better toned muscles than you have. They will literally kick your ass, if they want to. And how about those female athletes? They will out run you on track by a far far far distance, while you dying out of breath. They call them, tomboys. But are they? Tomboys we used to see were not that scary? Were they? They were not muscular like our Bev Francis from Geelong (pictured above in B&W) or any other ladies from the movie ‘Pumping Iron II’. They were simply girls in men’s cloth (mainly jeans)acting like boys. Were they simply a sexulised version of women that we see as masculine today? How do they differ from our current more muscular tomboys? Are they no longer sexualised anymore? Is ‘masculinity’ in treat, due to these ‘muscular’ women?

Some interesting articles about female body building and its implication on gender structure in society.

'Female Bodybuilders and the Feminine Mystique - Where Bev Francis meets Betty Friedan' - by Lisa Bavington
'FROM ABJECT TO OBJECT: WOMEN'S BODYBUILDING' - by MARCIA IAN