/lit/ - Literature

Is Lookmaxing effeminate?
It's weird these are the same guys who will lament the loss of man's rightful place in the natural order of society, yet they are focusing on preening and presentation like a woman. I was under the impression that throughout history a man's appearance has always been function over form, the Greek Ideals were based on the embodiment of strength that the body represented. A beautiful body was a healthy body. A body that was dynamic and capable of important work.
Animal skin decoys and camouflage, again, a functional item for hunting that might become aesthetic or later on even ritualized.
Does regalia of Kings invalidate my point? Is poncing about in a robe and a crown and all that stuff show that there has always been a element of appearance and form preceding function (although arguably the 'majesty' of the appearance served an important social function of signalling status?).
Why do men have short hair? It's easier. More practical. It's the same reason a guy doesn't have a separate body soap, conditioner, shampoo and face cleanser. He just douses himself in body wash and rubs it where he needs to until it's clean (which isn't as ridiculous as it sounds since most of them the active ingredient is Sodium Laureth).
Has a man's appearance has predominately and overwhelmingly though history been determined by function before form.
If so, then lookmaxxing is reversing that: a reversal that has traditionally been the domain of women. I also wonder how much of the regalia of Kings was actually selected for them by their Queens?