Saturday, March 15, 2008

Men as Meat


It's always been the women who are objectified, leered at, broken down asset by asset, and seen as mere sex objects. One of the newest phenomenon's of female "liberation" and the modern woman is the control and domination of her personal sex life. She is the one criticizing the bodies of the males in her world. She is the one who breaks them down with a lusting eye. And he is the object of her desire. This is championed by almost every mainstream woman's magazine in the U.S. and UK alike (e.g. Cosmopolitan, Company, Elle, More New Woman). "This approach to men, of course, is done with a smile, and knowingly treats men in the way that men have traditionally treated women" (David Gauntlett). The question is, do women get as much gratification out of such an approach as men have gotten? At the end of the day, are women satisfied with snagging that piece of meat and then going out on the hunt again?

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