FAscinating stuff on the Amazons, almost none of which is ever used in Hollywood movies. How many actresses are going to cut off their right breast so that it doesn't impeded the drawind of the bow?

Just saw Laura Croft:Tomb Raider last night. Great fun but my husband and I were the only ones laughing in some places. Why is it that when all the men around her are wearing heavy coats and fur hats she's wearing some lightweight floaty coat that's always open so that you can see her tits in a t-shirt? Finally I realized she's either got a fur-lined bra or battery operated heated coils in the underwiring.

A couple of years ago I had a great conversation with a man almost 30 years older than me. We were talking about characteristics that are labelled as either male or female. With the generation gap between us we discovered that we were labelling different traits. Its a fun game looking at where different times and cultures have placed the labels but its useless to attempt to place them accurately for everybody at once.

Men and women in many places and times have preened to attract mates. When what is fashionable is an "I don't care, I'm a natural girl/guy" more people will dress that way. And no matter how much you say you don't care about your appearance man or woman you're not going to go on a date looking and smelling as if you had just climbed out of a mud puddle after a furious game of soccer.