Sa'more bullshit!

There has been a study titled "My Body or My Mind", published in the European Journal of Social Psychology. This study videotaped what women experience in their daily lives as far as being judged nonstop by their dress and carriage. Half the time, the camera was held by a woman and half the time by a man. The women then did a cognitive evaluation to determine that when the camera was held by a man they felt more pressured and made more mistakes.

The mere idea that a man checking out a women would lower her intelligence level seems like a pretty common incident in our society, and I have a hard time believing that it was really necessary to do a "study". This is gender privilege at it's core. Men produced this study, carried it out, and came up with conclusions. Men don't know what it's like be a woman and have cat calls haunting you if you're walking on the street, men don't know what it's like to constantly be a secondary citizen in a world made for males. It's like women's lives are so mysterious and novel that we are being commoditized and put into some sort of 'special' category.

It's like how one of my courses is titled "Psychology of Women". Sometimes people ask why there isn't a "Psychology of Men"or "why is the former necessary?", my response is typical. Every other Psych class I am taking is centered around a hetero-normative, white, middle class male viewpoint. By offering a class on women, with a book written by a woman, taught by a woman, and case studies that have to do with WOMEN, we are actually learning things from a different viewpoint. This is another way in which institutions are forced to accommodate women because we are learning from a male perspective in all other areas. Therefore, affirming the notion that we are indeed treated as a deviation of the norm (hetero-normative, white, middle class male) and not just as humans.

That's all.

http://www.alternet.org/story/146396/new_discoveries_suggest_that_sexual_objectification_is_more_damaging_to_women_than_you_might_think