The Independent had an interesting feature today called 'The University of the Bleedin' Obvious'. Scientists, who no doubt are funded by our money, set out to prove what everybody already knows.
However one of the studies investigated mens' brains and they found that the part of the brain that keeps in check a man's sexual hostility towards women is deactivated when he is shown pictures of women in bikinis. "The findings also support the idea that pornographic images turn women into commodified objects in the minds of men.....it is as if they are reacting to these women as if they are not fully human,"
As I said, the article is called 'The University of the Bleeding Obvious', which kinda figures.
I don't know why men feel the need to shout at strange women in the street - it's not as if we do it to them or it's even done to anyone else. I don't know quite what gives a man the right to feel he can pass sexual comments onto a strange woman, or comment on aspects of her appearance or figure. Again, it's not done to anyone else by anyone else. I also don't know why we should feel flattered by this, why the fact that drooling teenage boys or leering Neanderthal men should make us feel good about ourselves.
I'm sorry LoveMyLapTop, I know you didn't mean this thread to turn into this, but it has. I respect you as a poster, but I still disagree with you on this one.