Should women wear make-up?

[Nuclear Unicorn]

248. While admittedly speaking in wide generalizations

I think it is safe to say that it has been long understood that a pretty smile and a flirtatious batting of the eyelashes has the potential to be used to induce a man to make decisions he might otherwise not make.

Again, this is a generalization and I am capitalizing on what I acknowledge is a stereotype but it is a stereotype I myself have had opportunity to exploit though I have chosen not to do so. I may not have the face that launched a thousand ships but I've set-off a canoe or two.

To me it seems the argument of "SI objectifies women" also suggests that men seeing women in bikinis have no choice except to objectify them. It is in this context that I used "congenital stupidity" in a voice mocking those who claim SI and swimsuit models objectify women. Call me crazy but I think that both insults innocent men as knuckle-draggers but also relieves those who would be offenders of their moral obligations. The fact is, there are good men out there who -- while perfectly capable of taking pleasure in a woman's beauty -- are also not reduced to debased animal impulses. The fact that such good men exist, and in abundance, proves that any objectification is not the fault of SI or the swimsuit models posing for them. When objectification occurs it is exclusively the fault of the men who choose to objectify women.