QUESTION Do Women Want to Be Oppressed? - Scientific American Blog Network
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Well, there has not been a proven "instinct" in humans, if by instinct you mean it is evolutionarily Hard Wired and cannot be overridden by will or desire. Unlike the other beasts of the wild, we dictate our cultural norms and and the laws that govern them. We are at an age and time in our civilization that we know female domination is not constructive nor is it in the best interest of our species. Humans do not like to be dominated, male or female and cooperation makes more sense.
TerrieKing60
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Jan 31, 2018
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Ok after reading the article I can see male domination may have occurred in the past but the times they are a changin. Girls used to be attracted to "bad boys." I know I was in my teens. The tough guys made the most noise, were physically and sexually aggressive. However as girls mature into adulthood they may be attracted to someone who doesn't make as much noise. Someone who lets the woman be the decision maker and the road warrior in the relationship. Then the woman tires of her passive partner and wants someone else to take the lead. Does she want to be oppressed? No. Does it sometimes happen? Yes. She gets older and may reject the dominance of the male. Some' women are now staying single and finding their voice today.
sassygirl3869
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Jan 2, 2018
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Uh, huh. The author of the Fifty Shades Of Grey series is currently raking in around one million dollars.... a week. A FREAKING WEEK! It ain't just tweenie boppers forking over that kind of cash for torture porn made for women.
Have you actually seen the movie or read the book-asked you on another thread?
@ Forty Two....
I can trudge through a few chapters of one of those things if I really force myself. Never been able to actually finish one all the way though. For the real experts, you'll have to go to the psychologists who study the people who actually lap that crap up. I'm just an arm chair message board jockey giving 2 cents worth of amateur speculation on the subject.
You'd think with the massive success of torture porn for women like the Fifty Shades trilogy, the answer would be yes.
But then we have men being slapped with sexual harrassment lawsuits for so much as looking at a woman in a way which they happen to deem creepy and you'd think the answer is a resounding no.
So who the fuck knows.
webbew1
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Jan 2, 2018
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If you have actually seen any of the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy it is a story with a plot. It is not torture porn. It does delve into the S & M world but it is part of the tale of how they got there. I see judgemental here.
So a tacked on attempt at "character development" is supposed to convince me that the Fifty Shades series isn't torture porn? If that was the case, then Lars Von Trier's, Nymphomaniac would have been an even bigger box office smash. It's a much better film which does a far better job of covering the psychology of how a person reaches a point where they start to confuse domination and violence for sex and love.
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