Study: Women all seem to want taller men

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44. Yes, this is a good post. But mostly to your point #4,

I think women start losing tolerance with the emphasis on physical attractiveness when it becomes an insult to their intelligence. For instance, women learn at an early age the well-worn adage about men being more visual, so it's a given that men will notice women for their physical attributes more frequently than a woman might, (generally speaking, of course). That's where objectification becomes insufferable, and women are definitely subjected to it on a daily basis much more so than men.

Just an anecdote: My SO and I were watching a TV show when there was some movement and dress made by a man that annoyed him to watch (it was a football-y type commercial where one of the men was portrayed unfavorably to him), so he grimaced and reached for the remote to change the channel. I mentioned to him at that time, See that's what women go through all the time -- multiple times every day, they are bombarded with reminders of overt sexuality in the media. He got what I was saying as he experienced that annoyance for himself right in front of me.

Just a couple days later, we pulled up behind a commercial truck for closet installations which featured an attractive blonde woman wrapped in nothing but a towel. I mentioned to him again, Do you need to see a man wrapped in nothing but a towel to sell you a closet organizer system? He agreed, no, he didn't need to see that. But it's so pervasive in the media for women to be featured in sexualized ways that can get really annoying, and for really no reasons at all -- a closet organizer? It gets ridiculous after awhile.