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Study: The Objectification of Women Is a Real, Measurable Phenomenon
PROBLEM: Women’s bare bodies are on display in billboards, movie posters, and many other kinds of ads. Though plenty of studies have looked at the ramifications of this pervasive sexual objectification, it’s unclear if we see near-naked people as human beings or if we really do view them as mere objects. METHODOLOGY: Researchers led by Philippe Bernard presented participants pictures of men and women in sexualized poses, wearing a swimsuit or underwear, one by one on a computer screen. Since pictures of people present a recognition problem when they’re turned upside down, but images of objects don’t have that problem, some of the photos were presented right side up and others upside down. After each picture, there was a second of black screen before each participant was shown two images and was asked to choose the one that matched the one he or she had just seen. RESULTS: The male and female subjects matched the photos similarly. They recognized right-side-up men better than upside-down men, suggesting that they saw the sexualized men as persons. On the contrary, the women in underwear weren’t any harder to recognize when they appeared upside down, indicating that the sexy women were consistently identified as objects. CONCLUSION: People objectify women in sexualized photos, but not men. SOURCE: The full study, “Integrating Sexual Objectification With Object Versus Person Recognition: The Sexualized-Body-Inversion Hypothesis,” is published in the journal Psychological Science. (via shevilfempire)
I AM GOING TO THE UK NEXT YEAR
Finally got confirmation from my bow tie wearing vet :D I’ll be spending August-September looking at eyes at Cambridge vet school.
OH MY GOD ZOE PLEASE COME TO BRIGHTON AT LEAST ONCE BECAUSE WE HAVE A BEACH WE CAN DO THINGS OR MEET IN LONDON OR SOMETHING OH MY GOD YOU CAN WATCH BRITISH TV ALL THE TIME NOW AAAAAA
Also I think one of my old school friends is studying Vet Science there… :D You might bump into her, cool!
YAY!
Okay.
Y’all need to chill out. Matt Smith is awesome. I know for lots of you, Tennant is your Doctor, but like… Matt Smith is super fab too and it’s an honour for him and for Whovians too to have someone involved with the show, someone who PLAYS THE DOCTOR carrying the torch.
I know, it’s not canon, and I think it would’ve been amazing if it had been David, but seriously, soooo many people carry the torch. Be happy and proud that it’s still an actor from the show, still an incarnation of the Doctor instead of freaking the hell out that it’s not canon and it “ruins it.” Because it’s still Matt, he’s still the Doctor, and this is still awesome.Besides, it’s not as if Matt is lighting the torch anyway.
PREACH
Jfc with all this “why not David?” rage I’m seeing you’d think this was a new episode or something. Why are people discussing canoninity issues when this is real bloody life?! :| Unless people think that the UK is a canvas for them to paint on or something… I can’t describe the feeling I get about it… I feel like it’s to do with that word, “Teeaboo”*, except not as I know some of my fellow countrymen have whined about this.
Lots of people in the UK don’t give a monkeys about Doctor Who, why should London 2012 cater to one fanbase?
*As an aside I really like this word, but I’m not sure whether its use is appropriate. It might be drawing a false equivalence with the appropriation of Japanese culture, which is worse. Anyone get what I mean?
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"I don’t think it’s terribly controversial to note that women, from a young age, are required to consider the reality of the opposite gender’s consciousness in a way that men aren’t. This isn’t to say that women don’t often misunderstand, mistreat, and stereotype men, both in literature and in life. But on a basic level, functioning in society requires that women register that men are fully conscious; it is not really possible for a woman to throw up her hands and write men off as eternally unknowable space aliens — and even if she says she has, she cannot really behave as though she has. Every element of her life — from reading books about boys and men to writing papers about the motivations of male characters to being attentive to her own safety to navigating most any institutional or professional or economic sphere — demands an ironclad familiarity with, and belief in, the idea that men really are fully human entities. And no matter how many men come to the same conclusions about women, the structure of society simply does not demand so strenuously that they do so. If you didn’t really deep down believe that women were, in general, exactly as conscious as you, you could probably still get by in life. You could probably still get a book deal. You could probably still get elected to office."
Jennifer duBois, Writing Across Gender (via florida-uterati)
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Aaand now my RSI is starting up again ;A;
I really have to finish these draft papers now, otherwise it’s going to become less of a dull ache and twinge in my arm but more painful all the time until it eases.
It already constantly feels like I have huge muscles in my left forearm or something even when it doesn’t hurt.
And the nurse said at the beginning of the year that there’s nothing I can do but improve my posture and take ibuprofen. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Oh god, GPOY
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the key to friendship is caps lock
CERTAIN PEOPLE KNOW WHY I REBLOGGED THIS, RYT? ;D
(Source: grantsmchale, via harpalyce)
ALL* THE CLASSIC DR WHO IS ON UK NETFLIX
(*or “all”, not sure yet)
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG
Is now a bad time to admit I haven’t really watched them?
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That will soon be rectified.
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[…] Either way, SRS has ended up being something of a bizarro-reddit. Think about what happens when a video or story of a woman/minority acting badly comes up on reddit. The comments are always full of people saying shit like “This is why I feel X about this minority”, “the stereotypes keep justifying themselves”, and on and on. Obviously it’s not every comment, but that sentiment tends to be very widespread and quite well supported with upvotes. Furthermore, when people try to say how much they’re offended by these offensive sentiments they’re commonly shouted down, told “it’s just a joke”, and that they should basically just “get over it”.
SRS does this to the prototypical “average redditor” and turns it up a few notches. The effect is that when prototypical redditors go to SRS they (understandably) get upset, but they fail to realize that the “SRS-experience” for them is actually fairly close to the “Reddit-experience” (or maybe even the “whole world experience”) for minorities.
The fact that SRS makes so many redditors SO UPSET should be cause for some introspection in the reddit community. It’s clearly very upsetting when people make fun of our demographic, so maybe we should be doing a lot less of that ourselves.
"- This is by far the best description of SRS I have ever read. r/bestof (via shevilfempire)
