This topic comes up periodically in the discussion of games and other popular entertainment and I thought I would offer my nuanced view:
If the goal of feminism is to establish professional equality for women, removing the glass ceiling, ensuring equal pay, combating stereotypes that women are incapable of certain jobs, promoting equal academic and professional opportunity, etc. then I am a feminist and offer the movement my full support.
If the goal of feminism is to create a safer sexual environment, to promote awareness of the problems of rape, sexual harassment, stalking and other forms of predatory behavior and abuse, to address the problems of domestic violence more effectively, to foster greater education of men on sexual boundaries and appropriate vs. inappropriate ways to woo, court and seduce, and to make it clear that women are not only (key word) sexual objects, then I am a feminist and offer the movement my full support.
If the goal of feminism is to make men not like sex so much, to make us less "visual", to make us not like looking at pictures of young, beautiful scantily clad women, to enforce prudish standards against anything sexy in popular entertainment and to advocate double standards against idealized female body types in fantasy while being perfectly fine with similarly idealized male body types (complete with shoulders thrice the width of their waist, perfect washboard abs and pecs as big as your head) then I'm going to suggest that feminism needs to either come up with a plan to fundamentally rewire the way men's brains are biologically designed or else get over it.
We men like sex. We are visual. We like looking at young, beautiful, scantily clad women. Sorry but that's not ever going to change. Get over it.
That said, you can work within that framework to create a better society. We men will always see women as sex objects but you can educate us so that we don't see you as JUST sex objects. We will always like sex but you can raise us to be aware of and respect sexual boundaries. We will always like sexy female characters but you can write them in stories to have other aspects to their character, including skills, intellect and spirit. Making men feel guilty about normal sexual urges is not healthy for anyone.
Sexy does not mean sexism.
If the goal of feminism is to establish professional equality for women, removing the glass ceiling, ensuring equal pay, combating stereotypes that women are incapable of certain jobs, promoting equal academic and professional opportunity, etc. then I am a feminist and offer the movement my full support.
If the goal of feminism is to create a safer sexual environment, to promote awareness of the problems of rape, sexual harassment, stalking and other forms of predatory behavior and abuse, to address the problems of domestic violence more effectively, to foster greater education of men on sexual boundaries and appropriate vs. inappropriate ways to woo, court and seduce, and to make it clear that women are not only (key word) sexual objects, then I am a feminist and offer the movement my full support.
If the goal of feminism is to make men not like sex so much, to make us less "visual", to make us not like looking at pictures of young, beautiful scantily clad women, to enforce prudish standards against anything sexy in popular entertainment and to advocate double standards against idealized female body types in fantasy while being perfectly fine with similarly idealized male body types (complete with shoulders thrice the width of their waist, perfect washboard abs and pecs as big as your head) then I'm going to suggest that feminism needs to either come up with a plan to fundamentally rewire the way men's brains are biologically designed or else get over it.
We men like sex. We are visual. We like looking at young, beautiful, scantily clad women. Sorry but that's not ever going to change. Get over it.
That said, you can work within that framework to create a better society. We men will always see women as sex objects but you can educate us so that we don't see you as JUST sex objects. We will always like sex but you can raise us to be aware of and respect sexual boundaries. We will always like sexy female characters but you can write them in stories to have other aspects to their character, including skills, intellect and spirit. Making men feel guilty about normal sexual urges is not healthy for anyone.
Sexy does not mean sexism.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
