Yeah, but that difference is specifically rooted in sexism and misogyny. The very fact that we can all see the difference that isn’t much of a difference shows that there’s a divide that needs to be bridged. We only think women’s nipples are inappropriate because we were taught to. Plenty of cultures around the world don’t see breasts as inappropriate, and they’re doing just fine.
Bad take in my opinion. It’s quite clear the difference between the two in our society.
Signtist@lemm.ee 11 months ago
tory@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, but you’re not going to stop people from getting horny when looking at breasts no matter how much you educate them. So idk what your goal is.
Signtist@lemm.ee 11 months ago
No, it’s not. People at nude beaches or at nudist colonies aren’t walking around with erections all day. African communities where women don’t wear tops don’t have guys jerking off whenever they get a chance. The sexualization of breasts in our culture is a product of our association with breasts as a purely sexual object, and the viewing of them as a purely sexual act. The way that stops being a thing is by allowing them to exist in non-sexual contexts, and teaching a new generation that they are just like any other body part.
If a girl nonchalantly takes off her top while going about her day today, it will be viewed as a sexual thing, because anyone who sees will have only seen such an act in sexual contexts. If, for several years, women all around the US are empowered to nonchalantly take off their tops whenever feel like it, it will become a common, non-sexualized act, because it will be associated more with everyday life than with what people do behind closed doors.
___@lemm.ee 11 months ago
A horny teenage boy is a prime target for abuse. You may think it’s cultural, but you may also be wrong. Hormones are a helluva drug.
tory@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just out of curiosity, total non sequitur here:
Do you believe homosexuality is a choice?
Chriswild@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That doesn’t mean society isn’t sexist. There’s lots of bullshit society is sexist about like how men can’t be loving and affectionate parents.
Gljvf@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Or how you can mutilate male sexual organs for profit but can’t do so to female sexual organs
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Society also says a kilt and a plaid skirt are two different things. Yet my Scottish roommate wore a plaid skirt from Zara to a party and no one batted an eye.
Free the balls, man.
OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Wait a minute could our society be sexist?
WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Maybe, maybe not, that really makes no difference here