The "Absolute Territory" terrifies me as a concept

[Denamic]

FOR SCIENCE!

And that is the reason I used "terrifying" in the OP

You must be really stressed out if you scare that easily.

 

[Secondhand Revenant]

Well I mean it is kinda creepy that people would be paying attention to that kind of thing. Even creepier if some are obsessing over it.

Yeah, what next? People looking at cleavage, whale-tail, butt, booty, lips, feet, legs, abs... and so on and so on. Yeah, that would be crazy and weird. /s

Paying overly much attention to such things is a bit creepy. Notice it's not just legs now it's gotten into some specific area and context they had to get a new word for. And to get a perfect ratio thing as is mentioned in the wiki link, it's clearly gotten into creepy territory, Sammael.

But there IS plenty of science tied to human preferences, particularly sexual preferences. Men and women alike being slightly more attracted to people wearing red on average being the simplest example. That someone would do math related to this is no different from someone doing math to find the statistical best amount of cleavage to show for a particular bust size. That is to say, I can absolutely see someone doing that using grant money from taxpayers, because shit is pretty interesting, yo.

It's not as if this sort of studying is only done on females, either. I've seen one study suggesting that women in general prefer plain white or mostly-plain white t-shirts over other styles of clothing on men. Obviously everyone has personal tastes, but if someone wants to search for a mathematical trend, I don't see any reason to discourage them.

I'm not really getting the impression this thing is just some thing scientists tried to figure out though. If it's just scientists trying to figure this random thing out I guess that's not creepy maybe. Still not the impression I get though

 

[Rattja]

Thank you for this, I now learned that they glue loose socks to their legs to keep them in place. Sock glue... Alright.

 

[Erttheking]

I have to say, even though I'm a SJW and therefore apparently sex negative, I look at this and say "So what's the problem again?"

 

[thanatos388]

I have to say, even though I'm a SJW and therefore apparently sex negative, I look at this and say "So what's the problem again?"

I don't get this thread. This isn't a new thing. I learned about this from No More Heroes 2 back in '09. Whats really wierd is that it came from the term in Evangelion. Which was basically the force field used by the space aliens to render all the military weapons useless. I'd be like calling areolas on women their "minovsky particles".

 

[The Bucket]

Goddamnit Japan and weeboos, how can you be so degenerate that you have a phenomenon of members of one gender spending time observing images of the other gender (or same gender) in some state of specific dress and discussing their preferences. No where else could you find something so horrifying and endemic of sexual repression or whatever in their culture. I'm just glad we don't live in a culture that has any billion dollar industries that follow similar patterns.

When I googled absolute territory stuff, the most I found was some charts along these lines
http://i.imgur.com/b7EweHh.jpg
And I dont see anything particular obsessive or noteworthy about things like this in the grand scheme of things, we've had people devise whole languages to go with fictional space aliens, while i'm pretty sure most people could hash out something like this in 30 minutes. I dont see why people seem to think Japan has multiple laboratories and scientists dedicated to this

 

[Erttheking]

I have to say, even though I'm a SJW and therefore apparently sex negative, I look at this and say "So what's the problem again?"

I don't get this thread. This isn't a new thing. I learned about this from No More Heroes 2 back in '09. Whats really wierd is that it came from the term in Evangelion. Which was basically the force field used by the space aliens to render all the military weapons useless. I'd be like calling areolas on women their "minovsky particles".

Yeah, if there's anything weird about this its where the name came from, if only because some people would use it as a basis for how geeky people can get.

 

[Something Amyss]

I'd be like calling areolas on women their "minovsky particles".

You should see my "no fly zone."

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

I'd be like calling areolas on women their "minovsky particles".

You should see my "no fly zone."

I'm more of a "Zone of Alienation" guy myself.

 

[Inglorious891]

Not seeing the issue here. As long as people don't obsess over it, what's the big deal?

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Also, I'm strangely turned on by this, and I have no idea why.

 

[9tailedflame]

When i saw the name of the thread, i thought absolute territory was some military turf conflict issue or something. There's no reason to be scared of a ratio. Weirder things have been studied.