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In reply to the discussion: With all the anti-pornography talk, can we have a sex positive thread? [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)First you call me patronising and then say "I could link you to articles but unless you're affiliated with a university, you wouldn't be able to read them"? Charming.
And no, they aren't. Not to the same degree and not in the same way. Women are definitely more affected, if you are are not aware of this I say again you are either blind or ignorant. (The bias is so subtle that it seems to pass unnoticed, but it can be very instructive to examine the differences in description between men and women in the press; females...whether politicians, actors, entertainers, or educators...who are the subject of media profiles? Almost invariably there's some reference to her appearance and age; men? Not so much. Philip Seymour Hoffman's weight isn't discussed nearly as often as, say, Camryn Mannheim's.
You don't even have a valid core argument if your argument is that there's not really any gender-based difference in society's treatment of men and women as it relates to expressions of sexuality and perceived attractiveness. I could link YOU to dozens of academic studies on the subject, but I'm not sure YOU'RE very capable of understanding them.