Comments | breakinglight11: When lust shuts down your brain

breakinglight11

When lust shuts down your brain

Feb 28, 2012 12:01

Pondering some things lately that I want to explore here. I've been having thoughts on standards of beauty and dynamics of attraction again, spurred by certain things I've been finding lately in myself.
( Cut because of a picture probably best not displayed on the front page... )

sex, pretty, marvel, feminism, musing, gender, chris evans

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breakinglight11 February 29 2012, 02:15:44 UTC

Isn't a necessary part of the definition of objectification that you're forgetting about the "object's" personhood? I agree with you that there's definitely a big difference between just enjoying the view and dehumanizing someone, but it probably doesn't count as objectification in the former case.

As for why shiny skin or neck tilting is supposed to be sexy, hell if I know. Usually it doesn't strike me as sexy either. For some reason this particular ad works on me, and it has a lot of the markers-- such as shiny skin --of "sexy portrayal" that pictures of men don't usually have.

lisefrac February 29 2012, 02:49:55 UTC

Actually, that's one of the reasons why I don't think it's fair to us straight ladies that guys get to toss off how they present themselves, because sometimes sometimes little details as small as how somebody dresses or parts their hair (see above, heh) that can make the sexy difference.Word. Plus, for me, so much of what is as turn-on is not appearance, but behavior/personality-based. Those subtle appearance changes can convey greater behavioral motives ( ... )

john_in_boston February 29 2012, 04:36:00 UTC

Hey, I think that first picture of Chris Evans is from Sunshine, isn't it? Of all his looks, I think I find that that one suits him best. But then again, I'm not sexually attracted to him ( ... )

acousticshadow2 February 29 2012, 12:18:20 UTC

I think it is an interesting concept, but I have a few things to say about it ( ... )

offside7 February 29 2012, 16:24:21 UTC

Ha! That scene in Origins prompted me to comment, "man, I hope there aren't any pants in that barn."

blendedchaitea February 29 2012, 16:42:39 UTC

The Marc Jacobs ad left me with a very mixed impression. My first thought was, "Man, that's vulgar," which of course made Feminist!Rachel in my brain pipe up and say, "Hey! Would you say the same thing if the model were female??"

On one hand, I'm so much more used to female objectification in advertising that I probably wouldn't find it so /weird/ to look at, so it wouldn't gum up my brain mechanics so much. Distasteful and not all that likely to make me buy Marc Jacob products, but not so unusual.

On the other, I might be reacting to it so badly because it offends my aesthetics, most particularly my sense of line - that just isn't a good pose. It's grossly asymmetrical and looks uncomfortable as much as it's uncomfortable to look at. I wouldn't know if it were gender-based until I saw a female model in the same position.