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There is no way a room full of teenage boys wolf whistled that photo of Marie Curie in earnest. It was obviously a rowdy bunch of teenagers looking for any exc

by Zikes 13y ago

There is no way a room full of teenage boys wolf whistled that photo of Marie Curie in earnest. It was obviously a rowdy bunch of teenagers looking for any excuse and means to be disruptive. But hey, let's not let that stop the author from drawing a connection with men everywhere. Obviously as a licensed penis carrier I'm completely driven by testosterone and hormones, and most easily understood if compared to cavemen or lower life forms.

coldpie 13y ago
Not quite sure how you read a remonstration of all men out of that article which was, by the way, written by a man. > There is no way a room full of teenage boys wolf whistled that photo of Marie Curie in earnest. It was obviously a rowdy bunch of teenagers looking for any excuse and means to be disruptive. At some point young people have to be taught that certain behavior is unacceptable. Seemed like a good opportunity to smack that shit down relatively early in those boys' lives.
- Zikes 13y ago
  > The Peacock Problem > This teenage silliness was based on men feeling the need to overtly display their heterosexuality by the reduction of any female to that of a potential conquest. > Beware cavemen your days are numbered the decent among us are standing up and by goodness our cheering will drown out anything you try and throw at us. I'm well aware it was written by a man, but that still doesn't make him right.
aptwebapps 13y ago
Does it really matter whether they were in earnest or whether they were just continuing the joke they had begun earlier? And what gave you the idea that the author was equating all men with the wolf-whistling boys?
heydenberk 13y ago
You miss the point. No one claims that the whistler had a sincere sexual interest in Curie. Such wolf-whistling is disruptive because it is a reminder, to both the men and the women in the room, of the social status of women and men. Even if you think that era of objectification and oppressionf of women is largely over (I don't), we're only in the first few decades of relative equality after centuries without even a pretense of it.

by Zikes 13y ago

coldpie 13y ago

Not quite sure how you read a remonstration of all men out of that article which was, by the way, written by a man. > There is no way a room full of teenage boys wolf whistled that photo of Marie Curie in earnest. It was obviously a rowdy bunch of teenagers looking for any excuse and means to be disruptive. At some point young people have to be taught that certain behavior is unacceptable. Seemed like a good opportunity to smack that shit down relatively early in those boys' lives.

Zikes 13y ago
> The Peacock Problem > This teenage silliness was based on men feeling the need to overtly display their heterosexuality by the reduction of any female to that of a potential conquest. > Beware cavemen your days are numbered the decent among us are standing up and by goodness our cheering will drown out anything you try and throw at us. I'm well aware it was written by a man, but that still doesn't make him right.

aptwebapps 13y ago

Does it really matter whether they were in earnest or whether they were just continuing the joke they had begun earlier? And what gave you the idea that the author was equating all men with the wolf-whistling boys?

heydenberk 13y ago

You miss the point. No one claims that the whistler had a sincere sexual interest in Curie. Such wolf-whistling is disruptive because it is a reminder, to both the men and the women in the room, of the social status of women and men. Even if you think that era of objectification and oppressionf of women is largely over (I don't), we're only in the first few decades of relative equality after centuries without even a pretense of it.