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Should Women Give Up the Power That Comes with Being Objectified?
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Re: Should Women Give Up the Power That Comes with Being Objectified?
#12According to this reasearch, http://assets.csom.umn.edu/assets/71503.pdf it goes far beyond "objectification".
(Access to) sex is a commodity that women naturally posses, and men want.
Re: Should Women Give Up the Power That Comes with Being Objectified?
#13>And if you think this isn’t accurate, just think about how a rich, single, old, but ugly man would fare far better romantically than a rich, single, old, but ugly woman. And speaking of the whole article more generally - Isn't all of this because of basic evolutionary psychology, and intuitively fairly obvious? Roughly speaking men seek beauty wrt neoteny and fertility, whereas women are more forgiving about appeara…
It seems that when you try to talk about evolutionary psychology in relation to gender inequality outside HN it usually doesn't go so well. Still trying to articulate exactly why that is.