From: nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Re: Female geeks
Date: 14 Oct 92 18:54:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: cbnewsd.1992Oct14.185453.6912
Organization: AT&T

In article <ewright.719078781@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>In <1992Oct12.113854.1897@infonode.ingr.com> greg@cherokee.b23b.ingr.com (Greg Moritz) writes:
>
>>If you are highly intelligent, you would tend to spend 'more' time
>>reading and learning rather than mucking with your hair.

Does that also mean that if you are highly intelligent you read
instead of perform mundane chores like cleaning your house, doing laundry, 
preparing meals, caring for children, and personal hygene?  I say
personal hygene because for some people, part of that mucky routine
includes washing and drying hair, plus skincare to avoid itchy skin
and breakouts.

>> Some folks
>>look like they spend *hours* a day just getting ready to face the world
>>(hair, makeup, nails, etc.)

I am a self-confessed wearer of makeup.  I also wash, dry, and style my
hair daily (well once in awhile I skip the wash and opt for a braid, OK
sue me) and I wear makeup.  But I don't spend *hours* on that stuff and
in the time I do it, I rely more on rote than on conscious thought.

Unless you are a severe airhead, applying makeup is not *quite* like
rebuilding a transmission if that makes it clearer.  Consider that
from snuggly-warm bed to garage door takes me a little under 1.5 hours.
This time includes waking, feeding, checking homework of, and making
a lunch for a 9-year-old; preparing and partaking in my own breakfast
and other morning needs; and getting myself ready for work.  Add to this
any last-minute library book hunts, PTA forms to read and return, holes
to mend, and owwies to kiss and it doesn't leave a whole lot of time to
muck with my hair.  But it gets mucked with because it doesn't TAKE a
whole lot of time.

The application of makeup takes less time than it takes me to insert
my contact lenses which itself takes about as much time as getting
dressed provided I don't have to iron anything.

>>I would think that if they are willing to
>>spend so much time on such activities, then their time isn't worth
>>very much.

Actually, the intelligent ones among us are those who make optimum
use of our time *and* look good.  :-)

>The soc.singles PC line goes like this: Spending time improving
>your appearance does not reduce the number of hours you have
>available for reading and learning.  Since you cannot improve
>your mind with maximum efficiency at all times, spending hours
>in front of the makeup mirror provides the necessary "down time"
>you need to recharge.  Plus, it reduces stress, improves your
>state of mind, and allows you make more productive use of the
>time you do spend reading and learning.  Thus, you can get more
>total "mental enhancement points" if you spend a few hours every
>day painting your face.

Ed, please cite the results of your makeup-application time study.
You might get more benefit from a good workout.


-Nance
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