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Anonymous asked in Social ScienceGender Studies · 1 decade ago

Men looking at women vs. women looking at men?

In some ways this question is a little stereotyped, but i do see this a lot:

Women seem to be free to give men a good all-over look, and talk freely about their bodies (often muscles, height etc), even in front of men, without any sense of guilt or worry.

Yet, if men do the same about women, talking about characteristics of a woman's figure, there's a big fuss about it!

Hope I'm making sense! I'm a man by the way. Um, I'm sort of tired of women talking about hunky actors in front of me etc. I'm sure they'd be openly upset if it were the other way round

What are your thoughts though? If you have experienced the same thing, what do you think it's down to?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    If you have a problem, SAY IT TO THE PERSON. Not to us, we are randoms you will never meet, so we will never talk about hunky men in front of you.

    Are those chicks you hang out with supposed to read your mind? "oooh Justin gets uncomfortable when we talk about men like pieces of meat in front of him, let's stop."

  • 1 decade ago

    The user interface went from DOS, a command line based interaction, to Windows a mouse driven graphic representation, so Graphical User Interface [GUI] means just that...

    ...In a slightly different context, you have us humans and the way we communicate with eyes as the primary organ of sense, and which rely heavily upon light providing decent illumination - so we are solar users by default, and the world, our existence, is the Solar User Interface.

    It is completely normal to seek every possible aspect of every unknown and use the brain to reconcile it with rationale, to feel right in oneself and settle with the facts, it has given rise to 'The News' in this world and that is international, a global reporting tool, so with the means of communicating and corresponding comes the understanding of what is good, right, healthy, desirable - People then, are connecting with a purpose and add their voice to all this as they too are viewed and regarded along those simple lines - hunk/bloke, stunner/fishwife...., it's regular human behaviour - but if it cheeses you off, that's not abnormal, it's repetition twanging the receptors in your brain for the 'nth time. All you really need there is a way to say you're not up for that kind of chat [at present], without seeming like you don't want to talk at all...

  • 1 decade ago

    Personally I don't do it, I find it really embarrassing when women do this. It seems to be some kind of competition to keep up with men. I suppose this is a bit hypocritical but I am more steeled to male sexism, if I hear a man make a crude comment about a woman I tend to think 'you d!ckhead' and walk away, when the boot is on the other foot it's a bit more difficult, if I am supposed to be on a night out with mainly women and this is the main topic of conversation I get bored.

  • 1 decade ago

    With the group of people that I tend to socialise with, both men and women, I think it's just the same for both sexes. Lots of my male friends, openly discuss women's bodies, mainly celebrities, and so do the women. I think it differs depending how comfortable the people are around each other if that makes sense :)

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  • daniel
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    I remember at college hearing one girl saying omg that guys so fit i just want him too sit on my face.

    I was like WTF thats way worse than anything me or my mate's would say too each other. I tend too find aswell men tend too use more slang etc when for instance at a bar and choosing who too go hit on.

    Thats why i prefer it tbh its very vague and undescriptive cos i really dont wanna know the details.

    If my mate just got laid him saying ''i hit that'' or ''i tapped that'' is plenty enough info for me, But from what i hear women tell their best friends everything about it how good he was, the size of his penis etc.

    tbh it doesnt bother me if they make comments on other guys so long as im aloud too do the same about women.

    And yeh i agree with the poster a few posts up, if your close friends with the people etc then their usually perfectly happy too make comments on hot guys / girls they see, where as if their people you dont know so well you generally dont say anything cos u dunno how they will take it

  • 1 decade ago

    It's a double standard but theres a reason for it. Men and women tend to react differently to certain things. This is one of those things. Of course there are always exceptions.

  • 1 decade ago

    I dont look good and dont have a great figure so I feel just the way you feel.

    I can talk about good-looking male actors but start feeling insecure when it comes to discussing fair-complexioned, smooth-skinned females/actors.

  • 1 decade ago

    If a man says how sexy a womans body is and that he wants to bone her, he will be labeled a pervert, creep etc. If a woman says how hot a guys body is and that she wants to get boned by him, no one will even blink an eye. It's a double standard.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but the "big fuss" is usually coming from the women, not other men?

    Get where I'm going with this?

    It doesn't bother men, it bothers women.

    Men sexually intimidate women, women do not sexually intimidate men.

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