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This is something interesting I have always tried to figure out, and it seems like men get mixed signals, or actually, we are just not interpreting the signals from women correctly.
It has always annoyed me the way men are portrayed in video media, like TV shows, movies, and even commercials. Men are typically shown as being bungling neanderthals, cluelessly stupid, childish dweebs, selfish "bad guys" or just plain incompetent. I always choked this up to the fact that most video media is typically aimed at women, as on average, they consume more video media than men, especially television. I figured women like to get a good laugh at a man's expense after dealing with more authoritative, assertive, competent men in the real world. While this has always annoyed me, as it plays stereotypes, I just sort of accepted it, turned off the TV and went about other more enjoyable hobbies than watching TV.
Recently however with Anthony Weiner back in the news-tainment media again for his impropriety, there have been several surveys going around that young women in the under 26 year old age group find this man highly desirable. Weiner, to most people (including myself) is a lying, scheming, weak-spined excuse for a man, and cannot figure out why anybody would find him desirable, especially for a social relationship. He has proven that he cannot be trusted in a relationship. As a typical man, we are generally not only hard-wired to be, but to also think that women desire an honest, assertive, smart strong man. For my own wife, this is certainly true, and one of the reasons why she is attracted to me, but for a large contingent of women, especially younger ones, this is not the case apparently.
It appears that the idiotic, buffoon male stereotype that is portrayed on television programs is more than just simply a good laugh at watching the tables get turned, but it's actually the DESIRABLE traits that women want in their men these days!!! It's a modern form of femininsm mind you. Young women apparently want to be the assertive and smart ones in a relationship. They want their man to be merely a "boy toy" or "fashion accessory" that they can use and take advantage of, support them and their endeavours, milk for what they desire, and then throw out. A man like Weiner fits this description perfectly, as he is in a high - profile money making position, but he lets people walk all over top of him, and has no real serious attachment to any one woman, so he's easy to get rid of when they are done with him.
I see this as a very sad shift in society. What are your thoughts on this topic? Do you see the connections here the same way I do?
It has always annoyed me the way men are portrayed in video media, like TV shows, movies, and even commercials. Men are typically shown as being bungling neanderthals, cluelessly stupid, childish dweebs, selfish "bad guys" or just plain incompetent. I always choked this up to the fact that most video media is typically aimed at women, as on average, they consume more video media than men, especially television. I figured women like to get a good laugh at a man's expense after dealing with more authoritative, assertive, competent men in the real world. While this has always annoyed me, as it plays stereotypes, I just sort of accepted it, turned off the TV and went about other more enjoyable hobbies than watching TV.
Recently however with Anthony Weiner back in the news-tainment media again for his impropriety, there have been several surveys going around that young women in the under 26 year old age group find this man highly desirable. Weiner, to most people (including myself) is a lying, scheming, weak-spined excuse for a man, and cannot figure out why anybody would find him desirable, especially for a social relationship. He has proven that he cannot be trusted in a relationship. As a typical man, we are generally not only hard-wired to be, but to also think that women desire an honest, assertive, smart strong man. For my own wife, this is certainly true, and one of the reasons why she is attracted to me, but for a large contingent of women, especially younger ones, this is not the case apparently.
It appears that the idiotic, buffoon male stereotype that is portrayed on television programs is more than just simply a good laugh at watching the tables get turned, but it's actually the DESIRABLE traits that women want in their men these days!!! It's a modern form of femininsm mind you. Young women apparently want to be the assertive and smart ones in a relationship. They want their man to be merely a "boy toy" or "fashion accessory" that they can use and take advantage of, support them and their endeavours, milk for what they desire, and then throw out. A man like Weiner fits this description perfectly, as he is in a high - profile money making position, but he lets people walk all over top of him, and has no real serious attachment to any one woman, so he's easy to get rid of when they are done with him.
I see this as a very sad shift in society. What are your thoughts on this topic? Do you see the connections here the same way I do?