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Originally Posted by wittynickname
In general I just stray away from that thread, and often have to eventually extract myself from any thread that discusses sexism/misogyny/etc, because there are a choice few on this board whose views on women are so incredibly infuriating that I just have to step back rather than continue arguing in circles with someone whose opinion is never going to change.
The issue for me isn't the simple appreciation of an attractive woman--for example, my best friend is a huge WWE fan, and I'm most certainly not, but believe you me, when Seth Rollins takes his shirt off, I sit up and take notice. The issue is the way that objectification of women goes far beyond just appreciating the aesthetic.
Studies have shown that when men look at women in bikinis, the brain activity is not that of dealing with an entity capable of critical thinking, but instead that of an object, a tool. That's not overt sexism in these men, necessarily, but it's the way society has trained men to view women. Possessions, trophies, objects to be attained.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...n-objects.html |
I wonder if it is evolutionary coding rather than the environment. Essentially from an envolutionary standpoint women were tools to pass on genetic material to the next generation. Attaining more women allowed more genetic material to be passed on.
Rewiring these genetically coded views coded views is much more challanging than if it is just a societal or religious precept.
Do you have links to other similar research, It would be interesting to see how the varriance amoung different populations appears and if its nature or nurture.