Women objectify Women for their sexuality according to science

[EddyBeers]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0725150215.htm

"We always hear that women are reduced to their sexual body parts; you hear about examples in the media all the time. This research takes it a step further and finds that this perception spills over to everyday women, too," Gervais said. "The subjects in the study's images were everyday, ordinary men and women … the fact that people are looking at ordinary men and women and remembering women's body parts better than their entire bodies was very interesting."

Also notable is that the gender of participants doing the observing had no effect on the outcome. The participant pool was evenly divided between men and women, who processed each gender's bodies similarly: Regardless of their gender, perceivers saw men more "globally" and women more "locally."


"We can't just pin this on the men. Women are perceiving women this way, too," Gervais said. "It could be related to different motives. Men might be doing it because they're interested in potential mates, while women may do it as more of a comparison with themselves. But what we do know is that they're both doing it."

[HPLovecraft]

This thread just won't be entertaining enough until mikey posts in it.

[J pold]

This is hardly surprising. Look through a men’s magazine and what do you see on every other page? Beautiful women. Flip through a women’s magazine and what do you see? Yup you guessed it, beautiful women.

They are truly fascinating.

[HPLovecraft]

Originally Posted by J pold

This is hardly surprising. Look through a men’s magazine and what do you see on every other page? Beautiful women. Flip through a women’s magazine and what do you see? Yup you guessed it, beautiful women.

They are truly fascinating.

I'd say just about anyone with a girlfriend or a wife already knows it. Of course, our society puts immense amounts of importance on a woman's appearance compared to a man's, so it's not that surprising women may be jealous and or equally judgemental about the looks of other women.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

There's actually a little more to this study than just objectifying women.

It relates to global and local recognition and the way that our brains seem to recognize women more locally and men more globally.

All that being said if all the images were like their sample image then this study was ######ed. They claim they changed a sexual part of their bodies but in the sample image that does not appear to be the case.

[GirlySports]

My first crush's girlfriend is still ugly.

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by J pold

[COLOR=#595959][FONT=Cambria][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=black]This is hardly surprising. Look through a men’s magazine and what do you see on every other page? Beautiful women. Flip through a women’s magazine and what do you see? Yup you guessed it, beautiful women.

Yep, anyone with a girlfriend/wife knows that women don't dress up to impress their men...they dress up to impress and compete with other women. We're basically chopped liver.

[Erick Estrada]

Apples to oranges. A woman with large breasts will be identified in public for that as there's no way to conceal large breasts. A man with a large penis won't because it's covered up but you can bet if everyone walked around pantless that men would also be reduced to their sexual body parts. You can always bet the guy that loves to parade around the locker room naked while everyone is changing is always a hung dude.

[mikey_the_redneck]

Originally Posted by HPLovecraft

This thread just won't be entertaining enough until mikey posts in it.

Meh .....I got nothin'.

...but I certainly don't notice women for their career aspirations.

[Phaneufenstein]

Originally Posted by Table 5

Yep, anyone with a girlfriend/wife knows that women don't dress up to impress their men...they dress up to impress and compete with other women. We're basically chopped liver.

Yes, and I notice the gf checking other women's asses out too!

I can only do that with sunglasses on when she's around...

[kirant]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Apples to oranges. A woman with large breasts will be identified in public for that as there's no way to conceal large breasts. A man with a large penis won't because it's covered up but you can bet if everyone walked around pantless that men would also be reduced to their sexual body parts. You can always bet the guy that loves to parade around the locker room naked while everyone is changing is always a hung dude.

Or really, really old

[Daradon]

Duh.

Just listen to women talk in a group for 5 minutes.

[Olao32]

Originally Posted by Table 5

Yep, anyone with a girlfriend/wife knows that women don't dress up to impress their men...they dress up to impress and compete with other women. We're basically chopped liver.

That's a fact!

Went to a get together the other night at a friend's house. Nothing big, probably about 15-20 people or so on a Friday night having one or twelve beverages.

Anyways, toss on jeans and a t-shirt and go downstairs to wait for her to get ready. Came down in a dress all done up. Asked why...because the wife of my buddy always gets dressed up for these types of things. Get there, sure enough most of the girls looked like they were ready to hit the town.

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Apples to oranges. A woman with large breasts will be identified in public for that as there's no way to conceal large breasts. A man with a large penis won't because it's covered up but you can bet if everyone walked around pantless that men would also be reduced to their sexual body parts. You can always bet the guy that loves to parade around the locker room naked while everyone is changing is always a hung dude.

Or just old and without f#cks to give.

[Five-hole]

Originally Posted by Reaper

Or just old and without f#cks to give.

They make pills for that now.