Some where along the way, many people have formed the position that aesthetic design ability is related to one’s genitals and the activity there of.

Once, when I asked a client what was his favorite color, his wife immediately replied: “Well, I pick out his ties.”  Another client took a very strong position on an aesthetic situation because that is what his wife said when he asked her on the way out the door on his way to work that morning. And there is that most often used cliche related to all  residential aesthetics: “Oh, My wife does all that.”.

Men are not an element in the situation and their preferences are not to be considered because men are not recognized as having that ability.

Since when does a marriage license give a woman aesthetic design ability?

Being born with female genitalia does not automatically bestow aesthetic design ability. Both male and female human beings have or not have that ability. There are members of both sexes who have aesthetic design talent and who lack that talent.

And there is that cliche made by women when designing, planning, and ordering decisions arise: “A man doesn’t like to wait.” as if design decisions are to be made immediately available because of one’s genitals. Both sexes are patient or not or any degree in between and such behavior is from their personality and not from their genitals.

Also, there is a movement that gets bigger each year that all male homosexuals have “fabulous” taste and unlimited design ability of which non-homosexual people are not capable and that they know everything positive, good, and desirable about interior design, fashion, entertaining, etiquette, “good taste”, and all of the beautiful and gracious elements of living.

We have all kinds of media and publicity activities which promote these positions and cliches.

Again, nothing could be further from the truth. One’s sexual orientation and the activity of one’s genitals does not give aesthetic ability or mental ability in any field or profession.

Artistic, design, and aesthetic ability is a mental capacity as are all other intellectual and related talents. One’s sex and the activity there of do not manifest mental capabilities.

Stop playing the games, making the jokes, and stop manifesting such thoughts about such misinformation and try to deal logically and intelligently with reality and not follow such popular media trends and expressed opinions. (Are you watching too much television?)

On the bright side, some movements are taking place which are improving the situations.

Food for thought.