sex and tools
“Images of women in bikinis prompted brain responses in men associated with using tools.”
now it makes a lot more sense why they booked Pamela Anderson as an actress on Home Improvement.
all jokes aside, my concern is more about this statement:
“Both women and men have something to learn from this line of research, Raison said. Women should be aware of how they are perceived when wearing provocative clothing, and men shouldn’t let feelings of impersonal sexual longing interfere with their more personal relationships with other women, including female friends.”
i know a great many women who believe/think/feel that they should be allowed to wear whatever they wish and not be judged for it and/or sexualized, and then there’s the hotbutton rape “she was asking for it” issue, often based on what a woman was wearing. i know this is a SUPER complicated and highly sensitive and controversial topic, so i was kind of shocked to see this in such plain writing on CNN.
i’m not sure how i feel about it, actually, but sexuality aside, i personally believe that how we dress/present ourselves has much more impact on our interactions with other humans that we ever consciously realize, or wish to be true. this seems to be another case in point.
and again, i’ve never been properly schooled in feminist theory, or evolutionary biology for that matter, so this is all just, you know, me thinking.
(tangent but a helluva story: Visual Rapists, Thieves, and Prada. related in that this woman obviously has experienced some serious sex-related trauma.)
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