A Most Interesting Mini-Lecture

[Sukerkin]

[video=youtube_share;kMS4VJKekW8]http://youtu.be/kMS4VJKekW8[/video]

I was quite ready to listen but be unconvinced by this talk on sexual objectification ... however, the lady won me over with the tenets of her argument. Maybe I was an easy victory, given that my general attitudes about the subject coincide with the viewpoint she was espousing?

Indeed, just today, I was talking with some of the young chaps at work, trying to get through to them that what a woman's personality is like is far, far more important (and enduring) than what she looks like (I don't think I made much progress but they are still steeped in too much testosterone - the decades will perhaps change their minds ).

 

[Sukerkin]

And another fascinating one about the need to de-nerdify science:

[video=youtube_share;w8UAbCSo]http://youtu.be/w8UAbCSo[/video]

 

[Sukerkin]

Speaking of making science more inclusive, this lass does a good job of it. She is, understandably, a bit nervous but shows definite signs of a pretty fair presenter in the making:

[video=youtube_share;3mz7O1c8YIs]http://youtu.be/3mz7O1c8YIs[/video]

 

[granfire]

oh well, it's the age old knowledge of women: It's more important to look good than to be smart, because guys can see better than think?

 

[Sukerkin]

ROFL - that must be a secret wisdom . I've not heard that one before. Is it a German or American aphorism?

 

[granfire]

German, I suppose

 

[billc]

And these three women are Hottt....er, oh, I guess that was the point of the first video...:angel:

 

[oftheherd1]

oh well, it's the age old knowledge of women: It's more important to look good than to be smart, because guys can see better than think?

Thanks. That was funny. I hadn't heard it before either.

 

[granfire]

And these three women are Hottt....er, oh, I guess that was the point of the first video...:angel:

Cold showers for you, Kid!

 

[aedrasteia]

[video=youtube_share;kMS4VJKekW8]http://youtu.be/kMS4VJKekW8[/video]
"I was quite ready to listen but be unconvinced by this talk on sexual objectification ......... Maybe I was an easy victory, given that my general attitudes about the subject coincide with the viewpoint she was espousing?"

Suk

these 2 statements have me confused (as i am most of the time :- > )

If the second one is true ; your general attitudes coincide with her viewpoint,
then Why would you be ready to be _unconvinced_by this talk??

 

[Sukerkin]

It was because, for no good reason other than a few weak articles I had read in times gone by, I expected the argument to be founded on a different premise viz that sexual objectification in and of itself leads to certain sexual crimes and deviances. Instead, she cut straight through that to the psychological impacts upon women themselves and how the notion of reducing a woman to a cipher for sexual use equally harms men as well.