Sunday, March 1, 2009

Why do men objectify women?



Now before all the female readers make egregious claims about misogynistic statements, unfair representation, and any other social inequities that plague our society, I want to preface the article with this. We are all creatures that were created, for all intensive purposes to replicate. To create more of ourselves so to speak. We are biological entities that respond unconsciously for a need to procreate, regardless of any learned knowledge. We tend to forget this as we run through life emulating an existence that inherently drives our lives progressively. Now this is a personal belief,one created by intelligence, and lots of random thoughts put together. But this CNN article backs up my theory with sound empirical evidence.

New research shows that, in men, the brain areas associated with handling tools and the intention to perform actions light up when viewing images of women in bikinis. The research was presented this week by Susan Fiske, professor of psychology at Princeton University, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
“This is just the first study which was focused on the idea that men of a certain age view sex as a highly desirable goal, and if you present them with a provocative woman, then that will tend to prime goal-related responses,” she told CNN. Although consistent with conventional wisdom, the way that men may depersonalize sexual images of women is not entirely something they control. In fact, it’s a byproduct of human evolution, experts say. The first male humans had an incentive to seek fertile women as the means of spreading their genes.

So ladies, when you catch your man giving another woman the look down, and he responds “Im a man” , give him a break. There actually are subconscious impulses occurring that he cant control, if anything its indicative of a healthy vivacious male homosapien.







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