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.
It’s only creepy when unattractive men do it.
Rumor has it JKF “did” Helen Thomas.
SO ESSENTIALLY, IT BOILS DOWN TO WHOSE HOUSE'D YOU RATHER SPEND THE WEEKEND AT:
HER'S:
OR
HER'S:
BY THE WAY ANN
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!
YOU ARE ONE OUTSTANDING BREATHTAKING BEAUTIFUL BRAINY PATRIOT....ONE IN WAY MORE THAN A MILLION!
ANNIE COULTER.....:WARRIOR PRINCESS/TIMELESS PATRIOT
Goes for the Muzzies too.
And yes, women check out men because it too is human (read: mammal) nature. Women are looking for a fit & feral male — the “bad boy” — with whom they can mate and produce strong offspring capable of survival in a competitive environment. Women desire men with broad shoulders, a narrow waist, and in particular muscular buttocks for strong thrusting action. Survival of the fittest, and limp-wristed libs are unfit.
That explains O'Bastard's appeal.
IOW, men like big boobs....Well there is a big DUH!
Helen Thomas was quite attractive when younger.
Just pass a law and that’ll do it. If only the Church knew this!
Why,....we could ban murder, pervertedness, adultery, theft, racism, lying.....OH MY, what a beautiful world!
What we should ban is the research grant that wastes taxpayers money - and the ones that wastes private peoples’ money too!
Congress is great at destroying jobs - and wasting money by creating grant jobs....
Here’s what I don’t get though. It has been scientifically deduced that the male human is attracted to high waist/hip ratio, etc. because that signals fertility (propensity to bear healthy children) when in fact that’s not true. I have known very fertile women who don’t fit that mold, as we all have, one is an Aunt who was very short and very slim with narrow pelvis and small breasts but had 8 healthy children.
As for the male gaze, never really gave it a second thought when it used to happen (maybe cause I’ve been married my whole adult life ugh) but now that I’ve passed 40 I’ll admit I notice its absence and it’s a bit sad because it’s like all of a sudden you’re invisible.
...maybe not quite attractive, but she did look like a female. :)
“Helen Thomas was quite attractive when younger.”
You’re gonna have to provide pictures to sell that, LOL !
I’m a 61 year old woman and I’ve been known to “check out” a few men. It’s normal. Homosexuality is not.
“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.”.
Sounds like a step towards Sharia law. First I’m not buying in and second I’ll look as long as my eyes still work. I have no doubt women will do the same because it is “natural”.
Hm. Good luck with that!
I like knowing men look.
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