I would believe the latter.
Consider the Roman Armor Breast Plate.
Certainly not designed this way for functional reasons.
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Whenever I see someone who has done this to themselves my first thought is that there has to be some sort of self hatred involved.
I went through a basic fire fighter course. It was the most physically taxing experience of my life.
Let me say I sweated my a$$ off every day.
I would believe the latter.
Consider the Roman Armor Breast Plate.
Certainly not designed this way for functional reasons.
I realized that.
But it in my nature to seize on the common misconceptions and point them out
A most irritating part of my nature; Some times it sparks conversation others it just ticks people off.
Probably something like that but not too large or too heavy.
Line backers are trained for short burst of speed and brute strength.
I think something between a line backer and a soccer player; strength, stamina, speed and agility.
A warrior of old would have to be able to march for hours carrying most of their equipment days on end and then be able to fight with little rest.
General Patton knew this and was able to execute the practice in WW II.
Compare those heroes — manly men — to the “men” that make DH and I change channels — the metrosexual freaks in the NY Times TV ads. OMG! It’s like the PR firm is playing a huge joke on the consumers. A cartoon, but with real people.
We had one guy drop 40 pounds in the last academy. He would have dropped more, except for his eating habits. I took powdered donuts away from him and chewed him out about his diet, but you can only do so much.
Within six months he’ll be back to his donut eating weight.
It's all sensuality and trembling, like a virgin going to her marriage bed.
So maybe they would find it romantic.
Its the Betty Boop influence via Tezuka Osamu. Following Japanese animators were influenced by him.
http://www.essortment.com/all/animejapanesem_rmpg.htm
Quote: The large, shiny eyes that have become a staple of anime style are actually more a product of history than of culture. In the past, characters in American and European cartoons, such as Betty Boop and Felix the Cat, had disproportionately large eyes. This style was emulated by Tezuka Osamu, one of the most influential founding fathers of anime. Today, this distinctive eye style has become a matter of the animators preference.
I do that to people, too, whether it's correcting misinformation or just wandering off the topic because I thought of something.
Good points. They didn’t just fight (and train) in bronze armor: they also competed in athletic competitions, sans armor. There are several episodes of “funerary games” in the Greek and Latin epics. And drinking themselves to unconsciousness, too, which doesn’t do much for physical fitness ...
Someone like Audie Murphy, who was a tiny little fellow at the time he won the MoH, was enabled by modern weapons. He eventually reached 5’6”, iirc, but I’ve seen his original uniform, and I couldn’t have fit into it. (I’m 5’4” and a size 8, between pregnancies). The Depression generation had very slight physiques, as a rule.
Good point.
Yeah, shrinkage. But he is dead, after all.
You mean like how English/French/German/Polish/Italian ladies are the same ?
Now THAT is a Japanese girl.
The really funny thing about Yukio Mishima is that he was also a homosexual. I’m serious. The guy who cut off his head with a sword was in his military group —a student from Waseda University (who later became an eccentric artist with legal troubles).
So his lover guy was obviously kind of nervous about cutting off sensei’s head, ya know?
In fact, this first lover student bungled the job, and another of his buddies (who was an active Kendo guy, and not his lover) cut his head off in one whack.
Mishima was married, and did have kids, however.
Periodically Japan goes through these times when men’s fashion becomes kind of fem, or androgynous. Sometimes it’s brief, and sometimes longer. Usually at these times the bro’s who go in for that lipstick, manicure and stupid sweater-over-shoulders thing are straighter than an arrow —I don’t get it...
Sexually, in some respects is very conservative, and also in some respects very indulding —I can’t figure it out, sometimes.
I have heard Japan called a gay paradise, and yet VERY few gay guys will come out and say that openly —I have never had a Japanese guy whom I know well tell me he’s gay.
Most Japanese gay guys do get married and do have kids. In some industries past a certain corporate point they will myseriously pass you over for promotion if you are not married and have no kids; the idea is that you will find it very easy to leave the company and go work somewhere else —sorta like being in the mafia, or something.
So in some ways sexually they are sort of stuck in the 1950’s, even though they have brothels in most neighborhoods, and even though most married couples do screw around (sometimes in groups, even).
If you figger that out, lemme know, cuz I still haven’t....
This is the secret behind the success of White-Asian marriages. Asian women are like white women used to be; white men are like Asian men used to be. It’s a natural match.
I’ve been happily married to a wonderful blue-eyed blonde for seventeen years, but I’d never advise a friend to marry an American woman. I got lucky.
> Someone like Audie Murphy, who was a tiny little fellow at the time he won the MoH, was enabled by modern weapons.
Perhaps “assisted”, rather than “enabled”? I know plenty of tough, mean short guys. In many ways they have a distinct advantage over taller opponents — lower center-of-gravity being one very important one.
Most of the modern Greeks I know are short wee sawn-off runts. I wonder how their physiques compare to their antient ancestors?
> The Depression generation had very slight physiques, as a rule.
My Father-in-Law passed away last week. He was a member of The Greatest Generation. He was 5’2” dripping wet, very slight build. Tough as nails, he was digging deep ditches in his back yard a week before he died at age 90.
I wonder how their physiques compare to their ancient ancestors?
I don't know ... don't even know if there's much human archaeological remains to work with from that period. Still, if everyone has the build of Olympic gymnasts, they're all evenly matched and nobody looks short to anyone else.
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