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In reply to the discussion: Misogyny sucks...Misandry sucks... [View all]BainsBane
(57,767 posts)The point is not about them as people. It is that men who are fixated on those magazines do so precisely because they aren't interested in intelligent, three dimensional women. One insisted the fact he is an ape compelled him to look at magazine images of women's behinds--because evidently he thinks biology has evolved human beings toward avoiding procreation by focusing on magazines and porn rather than actually reproducing the species.
The images on magazines are not of real women. They are not even real images of those models. They are altered to appear the way that men who have internalized capitalist commodity fetishism believe women should look.
Ultimately one of the main ringleaders made clear why they made sure that OP was posted. The purpose was to "retaliation," he insisted. It was a deliberately hostile action to offend women on this site, just as courts have ruled posting such images in workplaces is part of a hostile work environment intended to demean women and claim the workspace as male. That their intent was hostile was obvious, which is why I stayed out of their shit fest.