Study: Brain Objectifies Women as Body Parts, Men as Whole: Is Objectifying Women Natural?

not necessarily... What about Jo Brand or Dawn French? I'm not saying that they can't be seen for their body parts i'm just saying why would a man want to see women like them as body parts? When they're personalities and humour is much more appealing than their body parts? I objectify men because i love the male body but only if it's an attractive man! This however has no affect on my taste in men... I love personality but if i was to judge a man for his body parts it would have to be a sexy man! otherwise i will let his personality make him sexy and the same goes to how i would want men to see me. When i go out i won't really have anything other than my arms and legs out. I don't mind if men admire me because i think its humerous and even though us girls moan about it we would hate it even more if men didn't admire us! However I like to rely on my personality when i'm trying to get male attention and it usually works. The amount of guys who have told me i'm really cool and attractive because i'm not vein etc etc. Maybs they were just trying to get into my knickers lollll. But generally because i don't get my female parts out and rely on them to be noticed, i get noticed because of other things for example my sense of humour and personality. I'm not ugly or fat or anything so maybe if i was and still got male attention then maybe it would be a more accurate account for proving this wrong. But i have friends far more beautiful than i am but i manage to get the most male attention. I think most probably because i'm not desperate. But you can't tell whether a woman is desperate or not by looking at her body parts. That's a much more psychology thing that men see when they look at women. This can't be true. Sure men appreciate the female body but that's not all they see.

NO, objectifying women OR men is a cultural thing. It's by no means natural. Unlike men, women are constantly targeted to take care of their appearance by using makeup, certain clothing, and stuff (just look at all the choices women have for dressing, cosmetics, shoes, etc. as compared to men.) I think it has all to do with the ancestral perception that we have been dragging to date that a woman's value depends on her looks as she was seen as incapable of providing for the family. Men are not seen this way, as historically, most known cultures have just asked them to be providers so that taking care about their physical appearance was never a priority as in the case of women. In fact, those men who DO care about their looks are seen as "too gay" even to date or become metrosexuals that ARE objectified.

It happens to both men and women, when we are mesmerized by someone's appearance, all we do is admire their superficial beauty as it can be very captivating. It has happened to me in both ways, the giving and the receiving end. When I'm looking "too sexy," men seem to can't help themselves but look at me as some scoring target, but when I haven't paid too much care to my looks, they actually seem to want to get to know the person behind the looks. And this has happened to me with men too. When I see they are tooo hot/attractive, I can't care less who they are as people; all I do is stare at them for their physical beauty, yet, when I meet a guy who's more of the regular type, I actually get interested as him as a person.

The thing is, most people, women and men, follow whatever society places a value on, it's true. Most people really don't question what they are doing and why they are doing it; 7 out of 10 times I think, they just want to fit in. So, if society says you ought to be feminine and delicate to be a "true woman", and you care too much about fitting in, you'll go nuts over frizzy hair or a broken nail as your perceived value will depend on things like that. Same with careers, if society places such a high value on the highest paying careers, most people will flock to try to achieve a "high" position in society by choosing those careers and will think of themselves as very smart if they do it, while seeing those who choose non-conventional careers as low achieving. Some even suicide when they are unable to meet their desired goal. It's the same with men. For example, if society places a high value on your manliness, and you care too much about fitting in, you'll think it twice before wearing a pink shirt and will always feel pushed to show how "strong" you are as being weak is a no-no for men according to society, and so on. And there are thousands of other examples. So, I think it all comes down as to as followers instead of being truly independent thinkers. As members of society, most people just want to fit in and rarely question the whys of their own actions and why some things are perceived as important in society, and so, they just go with the flow.

And about your trying to greet women on the streets, you see their response as nasty, but they are on the defensive due to past experience. Have you stopped to think how tiring it is for an average and above average women in the looks department, to be constantly approached by strangers, who wouldn't even dare to pay any attention to them in their "bad" days? Well, in most cases that holds true. When you look good, people are nice to you and love to greet/talk to you, but when you are in your "bad" days, albeit for those who really like you, these same people either ignore you or are just plain nasty to you. So, regardless of the intentions of the person in question, women who have gone through this, learn to see people who randomly approach them as shallow, so they want little to do with them unless they feel otherwise.