"Research shows that just looking at an attractive female makes [men] more likely to indulge in 'physical risk-taking' which results in embarrassing failure or even injury."
According to this article, when a man sees a woman [only attractive ones though] he might hurt himself trying to impress her. Evolutionary Psychology suggests that males will try and find the most fertile mate and will go to personal loss if it might get her attention. I love how these things are always explained with heteronormative, biased, Freud-like views that everything can be traced back to a tiny little thing in "evolution". If we have evolved into more advanced beings than ever before, why do we have things like this:
http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-make-your-bed-date-rape-friendly/
That's right, a rape pillow. It's purpose is to make one's bed more "rape friendly". I find this to be an absurdity in itself because rape is not friendly at all! All the time women are coerced into rape and/or keeping quiet about it. It's such an outrage that some smart ass had to come up with this to encourage the Rape Culture and make it more normalized in our society, not to say for one minute that it isn't already.
This is only the tip of an unfathomable iceberg of misogyny, sexism and a depressing reality.
KW
What is really interesting about the focus of both of these articles is that they fail to address the real issues at hand. Why are women encouraged to present themselves in a more "white, heterosexual, thin, flawless" manner and then blamed for the clumsiness of their counterparts? The responsibility continues to fall on femininity for both creating and solving men' problems,
ReplyDeleteIn addition, marketing and then giving press to such insulting things as a "rape pillow" detracts from the real face of rape, which is usually shrouded in ambiguity, shame, and coercion. We need to give press to the different ways survivors are coerced, regardless of gender, to the low conviction and reporting rates for sexual assault, and we need to support the people who work day and night for those survivors by not allowing people to freely sell violence driven novelties in their venues. Capitalism may be an instigator of a disproportionate amount of inequality, but it should also be a tool in easing the violence of the country that supports it.