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• "The Chief topped it all off with the following rather stunning observation: “I’ve never met a foriegn prostitute who WASN’T a trafficking victim”. When asked to explain this comment further, he let it be known that it was standard policy
  (posted to Gender, Violence, Sex: Looking for new ways to think about them)
• And I am of course referring to our oh-so-wonderful elected representatives.
  (posted to Gender, Violence, Sex: Looking for new ways to think about them)
• Crash testing of cars is relatively simple. The testers have a reasonable idea of how the human body is affected by the types of forces suffered in car crashes, so it's easy to judge how safe a car is based
  (posted to Advances in Genital Construction)
• Of course young men don't have body image issues. Having body image issues is treated as something feminine, and therefore unmanly and weak. Well, they're not going to admit to having body image issues anyway. I have a feeling, though,
  (posted to The Male Gaze and the Beauty of the Female Form)
• Yeah. Perils of women interested in feminism winding up in women's studies classes that don't seem to do a very good job of explaining statistics, at a guess. In fact, from what I can tell feminism itself (or at least
  (posted to New Mammogram Guidelines Could Disproportionately Endanger Black Women)

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• The responses, by and large, are not to your post. I agree with your post. The male gaze is damaging to both men and women, and by far affects women more, no comparison. I'm with you on the inability of (posted to The Male Gaze and the Beauty of the Female Form)
• Lisa said "After all, someone who assumes that the sight of a naked man cannot cause arousal is clearly not concerned with the arousal of his own sexual partners. The assumption that the male body cannot be a turn-on for (posted to The Male Gaze and the Beauty of the Female Form)
• Men won't suffer problems of anorexia and bulimia for a simple reason: Being very thin for a male is seen as a bad thing. I can say that as a transsexual woman who has experienced both sides of people's comments (posted to The Male Gaze and the Beauty of the Female Form)
• Furthermore, men are not encouraged to change their bodies in order to appeal to women. They take for granted that male bodies are not as attractive as female ones, but are only rarely encouraged to lose weight and never encouraged (posted to The Male Gaze and the Beauty of the Female Form)
• I actually know a few het men who crossdress. They do this, primarily, because they think women are so hot, they want to look like one. They're not transgendered, they're not gay, one is overweight and embarrassed to wear a (posted to The Male Gaze and the Beauty of the Female Form)

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