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Friday, May 28, 2010

I recently talked to a man who seemed to think that all women with cleavage have to do to get what they want (in this case, a taxi on New Year's Eve) is to show it.

How naive can you get? Men are essentially naive, perhaps willingly so, to women's actual world and experiences in it.

What might actually happen? The taxi driver could insist on a feel of such cleavage, putting the woman in a very uncomfortable and even dangerous situation.

An obvious extension of this kind of thinking is that women should or have to let men have sex with them to get what they want. The assumption is that men are always in a position of control and power. If the taxi driver is a (straight) woman, the assumptions are shown to be faulty in this regard.

The attitude that also bothers me is that this man thought I should be manipulative to get what I want. And that it was so easy.

Is he ignorant of the dangers women face? Or just trying to flatter me? Or just stupid?

"A Serious Man", "A Single Man" and now "Solitary Man". So many movies about men. And then we have the new movie, "GIRL with a Dragon Tattoo" about a mid-20's WOMAN!

How many movies can you name with the word woman or women in the title?

  • "Pretty Woman": about a prostitute, one of the few female dominated professions of interest to the male audience (the one that's really important since women will watch movies about men and men won't generally watch movies about women)
  • "Scent of a Woman": two main characters are both men so it's not even about a woman
  • Can I count "Wonder Woman"?