Posted on 12/09/2013 3:17:48 AM PST by markomalley
In the progressive future, men will not be able to look at womens bodies because that is a terrible thing to do and science says so.
Researchers have offered a definitive report into the science of the male objectifying gaze in the December 2013 volume of Sex Roles: A Journal of Research (Volume 69, Issue 11-12, pp 557-570).
Although objectification theory suggests that women frequently experience the objectifying gaze with many adverse consequences, there is scant research examining the nature and causes of the objectifying gaze for perceivers. The main purpose of this work was to examine the objectifying gaze toward women via eye tracking technology, according to the abstract of My Eyes Are Up Here: The Nature of the Objectifying Gaze Toward Women by Sarah J. Gervais, Arianne M. Holland, and Michael D. Dodd.
Consistent with our main hypothesis, we found that participants focused on womens chests and waists more and faces less when they were appearance-focused (vs. personality-focused). Moreover, we found that this effect was particularly pronounced for women with high (vs. average and low) ideal body shapes in line with hypotheses, according to the report.
This is the kind of study MSNBC commentators can hold up when theyre talking about rape culture. Because men are just all Bashar al-Assad and sex is their chemical weapon. Fifty-one percent of the U.S. population is a victimized group now. Dont you know? Women are like Indians now. You cant give them a once-over, a polite grin, and be on your way. You cant notice the fruits of their several-hour morning project of preparing themselves to be looked at. Pretty soon, looking at a womans chest will legally be a hate crime instead of a love crime.
Its already started. There was the Massachusetts secretary who sued her boss for staring at her breasts. There was the social media uproar when two tech conference presenters in San Francisco made a joke presentation for an app based on mens desire to stare at breasts.
This is what the progressives exist to do. They take away our activities. If its an activity and its kind of fun or pleasurable, the progressives are going to take it away.
Thats the very basis of their personality type. Theyre the regulators. The hall monitors.
Maybe catching a side glance of some cleavage on the subway isnt for you. Fine. But for those of us who enjoy that, its one more thing that were allowed to do in this country. Im not big on skiing, but if I see somebody walking down the street with some skis Im cool with that. Why ban things that you might want to try sometime?
Im not saying looking at tits is any kind of noble pursuit. But its one more freedom. Its one more thing that has been allowed in this country since the time of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. One more thing that were not going to be allowed to do in the progressive future.
And you know what else? A lot of women like it.
Ladies, how are you going to feel when the progressives prohibit men from paying you a compliment on your walk home from the bar? You know theres always one friend of yours who waited all night for that.
And if you happen to be a woman who isnt employed by the Democratic National Committee or the New York Times, maybe youre really not all that offended by these sorts of things. Because you realize that when progressives ban things, they dont just prohibit activities: they set a new rule that goes out through the culture that must be obeyed.
And the new rule affects everyone. From the guy who now has to cover his face so as not to look at a hot girls tits, to the girl whose tits can no longer be looked at, to the friend of the girl who could have laughed when it happened, to the bar owner standing outside who could have lured them both in for a drink, to the husbands small business partner who knows the story of how they met and smirks about it over dinner, to the daughter at their 30th anniversary party who decided that she just wanted to be a full-time mom and raise her kids Christian and send them to private school and she was proud of her decisions in life.
This is why conservatives will own the future of this country, and progressive leadership will fall by the wayside. Americans in nursing homes dont like their activities being taken away. But that nurse who comes in Tuesdays for hip rehabilitation? Shes just fine.
When they stop wearing tight clothes and skimpy shorts I’ll stop looking.
Liberals have gone full circle and become...................................MUSLIMS!!!!!!
A lot of Americans are too uninformed to recognize Helen Thomas, but based on their voting history, the American people believe nearly every word that came out of her mouth.
“Settled science” and “settled law” means the liberals win and can no longer be challenged. Maybe that’s why the two McC’s never challenge “settled law”.
“She’s not naked. It’s art.”
and what about showing all the cleavage, will that stop also? don't advertize for what you don't want
And as soon as the rats finish implementing Sharia law the problem will go away as all females will be cloaked in black from head to foot.
...that will never ever happen in our culture...men will be blinded before women will have to wear unfashionable clothing...
Well I guess a universal Burqua law would take care of that. Hmmmm, they have that in some areas now, isn’t that Islam ???
They’ll have to pry my gazes from my cold dead eyes.
Women dress for each other. Men are just bystanders in the parade.
It’s not that women object to men staring at their bodies. Women only object to MEN THEY ARE NOT ATTRACTED TO staring at their bodies. Many women get very offended when guys they consider “beneath” them display sexual interest in them, but NOT when a “hot” guy does.
Shoot, I catch women checking me out all the time.
...yes, so do I...I can see the pity in their eyes...
My “feminist” SIL got really mad when I told this joke -
“You know what the difference is between ‘being asked out at work’ and ‘sexual harassment’? The attractiveness of the guy doing it.”
Rush’s explanation of feminism
could apply to liberalism in general -
to make the unfit artificially “fit”.
“In context”, he wasn’t checking her out.
He wouldn’t. He’s a gay Muslim.
Actually, there is much more to it than that. I refer you to “The Naked Ape” by Desmond Morris. Yes, men are hard wired and reproduction is the “primary” reason but not the only reason.
Helen Thomas was quite attractive when younger.
...actually, so was Hillary Clinton...time is so unkind to us...
You mean low waist/hip (or high hip/waist), ie waist less than hip.
And yes it is true:
Women with high WHR (0.80 or higher) have significantly lower pregnancy rates than women with lower WHRs (0.700.79), independent of their BMIs [48]. Therefore, it appears that the lower pregnancy rate in women with high WHR, compared to women with low WHR, is due to a problem with embryo development and its viability. Currently, there is no information available about the incidence or frequency of spontaneous abortion and WHR.
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