Ben Moy's The Attraction Of Men And Women

Jackson Katz considers masculinity as a guise because it is a way for man to put on a mask to not show their vulnerability and their human side. He expresses that mask can take a lot of forms and one of them is the tough guise. For man to show their masculinity to the dominant society they have to be able to show that they are strong, violent, aggressive, respected, powerful, intimidating otherwise they will be looked by that dominant society as weak, losers, soft, or girl. Katz explains that this situation can be seen in every culture and boys have difficult to try to fit in the dominant society. One example that Katz explains in his article men are engaged in an ongoing process of keeping or creating their own masculinity identities. Nowadays

In another study, Langlois and Roggaman (1990) took photos of faces and morphed them together to produce composite images made up of 4, 8, 16 or 32 images. Participants rated faces as increasingly attractive the more faces that went into each image; this applied to both male and female faces. The more faces in an image, the more symmetrical they become, it seems that moving a facial image closer to the average increases its perceived attractiveness. It is likely that symmetry equates to fitness and “good genes”, these people are less likely to have been affected by harmful mutation. People with attractive faces are preferred because of the benefits of passing on these attractive characteristics to offspring. Little & Hancock propose that humans have evolved to be attracted to symmetrical faces because they indicate “averageness”, which equates to genetic health. Grammar and Thornhill (1994) found that females are attracted to males with masculine characteristics, for example: large jaw and prominent cheekbones. These features arise as a result of testosterone, which is also a handicap because it suppresses the immune system. Therefore, showing only “healthy” individuals can afford to produce these traits- advertising a strong immune system. Cartwright (2000) supported this, finding men prefer photographs of women with symmetrical faces and vice versa.

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There are many factors that influence female attraction towards men, and many of them are driven by women’s menstrual cycle. Sexual attraction in females has been shown to increase during the ovulatory phase of the menstrual cycle, which is the period of most fertility (Gangestad & Thornhill, 1998). Evolutionarily, this time is beneficial because it would be more likely for a female to conceive if she were more prone to attraction towards men during her fertile period. It has also been shown that female mate preferences change across the ovulatory cycle. Men with particular attributes, such as facial symmetry, are preferred during the period of most fertility (Gangestad & Thornhill, 1998). This can be explained by the Ovulatory Shift Hypothesis, first proposed by Gangestad and Thornhill (1998). Gangestad and Thornhill (1998) make three predictions within this hypothesis. This first prediction includes the ‘good genes principle,’ that women are attracted to certain attributes that signify that a male has “high genetic quality” (Gildersleeve, Haselton, & Fales, 2014). This could mean that a certain individual possesses genes that would increase an offspring’s’ fitness and, therefore the parent’s fitness, or do not possess genes that would be harmful to an offspring. Therefore, theoretically, if a female were more attracted to a male based on the male having high quality genes, she would more likely conceive an offspring with that individual. This would, in turn,

Gilman lived her life on the margins of a society where the social definition of women in which she strongly opposed. Through the views of what she said were “masculinist”, Gilman made her writings focus around self-consciously feminist ideas from which she based her fictional stories from.

This sentence from Claude Haton’s memoirs demonstrates the anti-Protestant and misogynist sentiments harbored by Catholics upon the emergence of Protestantism in France. In his writings, Haton claimed that seduction and sexual debauchery were responsible for the significant number of conversions to Protestantism, that “most followed them only on account of this carnal and voluptuous charity” (50). He accused the women of prostituting themselves for the sake of gaining converts and portrayed the Protestant men as being just as shameless. If this was the case, one would assume that both males and females would be equally tempted by carnal desire; however, Haton insinuated that among the upper class, women were more easily seduced than the men.

When we feel attracted to an individual, we like the chemical balance or imbalance they possess. Sexuality is also controlled by these chemicals. Estrogen and testosterone determine the gender an individual is attracted to. But of course, there is a significant difference between sex and gender, both affected by androgens. The gender that a person may feel can be changed by the levels of their androgens. Their chromosomes may say one gender, but their brain says another.This all boils down to evolution. Beauty, attraction, and sexuality is all part of Natural Selection. Humans with better genes appear beautiful, saying ‘I am healthy, I have good genes.’ However, this is futile, humans are no longer physically evolving. We are in an age where we should value brains and productivity over beauty and sex appeal. This is the remnants of the old vomeronasal organ that identifies other pheromones and hormones in potential partners. These chemicals, among others, control our very

In the article “Men, Women, and Money” by Olivia Mellan was based on factors about both genders differentiating financially. Men and women originally are divergent they either spend money responsibly or ignorantly. In a relationship money is key to a variety of open doors for a couple which could bring them together or leave a blank space. The thought of currency possibly leads to an emotional overload that is where avoider, worriers, and hoarders come into place. An avoider is technically benighted whereas a worrier is concern methodically if something goes wrong with their spending and a hoarder feels deprived when they don’t spend. Accordingly, Men are categorized to make more money than women, but also feel the necessity to gain power

The Halo Effect is the cognitive bias that generalizes that if an individual has one outstanding favorable character trait, the rest of that individual’s trait will be favorable. Specific to physical attractiveness, this is known as the “Attractiveness Halo.” Attractiveness plays an important role in determining social interactions. In fact, the physical attractiveness of an individual is a vital social cue utilized by others to evaluate other aspects of that individual’s abilities (Kenealy, Frude, & Shaw, 2001). Because of the attractiveness halo, attractive applicants trying to enter the workforce tend to

Soon after the release of his book, he and his first wife Hadley got divorced, due to an affair that Ernest had with a woman named Pauline Pfeiffer. Shortly after the divorced from his first wife, he continued to work on his story book, “Men without Women”. These short stories are a catalog collection of different subjects from infidelity on both sides and his many divorces. Hemmingway moved back to the states after his second wife became pregnant, and his book “Farewell to Arms” was released around this time. This encompassed his experience on the Italian front as an ambience driver as well has the women he first fell in love with. In 1937 Hemmingway began working for the North American Newspaper Alliance to cover the Spanish Civil War.

In addition, an experiment by McClintock showed that women were attracted to the smell of a man who was genetically similar, but not too similar, to their fathers ((1)). Therefore, our genetic information might play a role in whether or not someone is desirable in order to avoid inbreeding or, on the other end of the spectrum, to avoid the loss of desirable gene combinations. Inevitably, however, it is our brain that processes another individual's appearance, lifestyle, how they relate to past individuals we have met, and, possibly, their pheromones. Then, based on this information, we decide, within our brain, whether or not this person is worth getting to know.

Studying Gender, race and class in university has opened my eyes to the extent and intensity of women's studies, its surprising as to how much it affects my life, just by being a woman. The patriarchal system of power is found all over the world and no matter how much the society has modernised, patriotism still exists in today’s society.

When you are attracted to someone you believe that it is because you think they caught your eye or how charming they are, but there is a science that gives the deeper reasoning to why you are attracted to someone. Smell, fertility, masculinity, and the golden ratio are all factors in attraction. Science has affected who our ancestors chose for mates and now it is affecting us.

For example, you see a woman with a Gucci handbag, you subliminally judge her and assume that she is of higher social status. Now when it comes to distinguishing people’s qualities and attributes strictly from their physical appearance, this is a more complicated task. This is one of the reasons why gender plays a huge role in this research study; attractiveness can differ between male and female. That is why during our study participants must be shown male and female pictures, just to see how participants perceptions will change depending on the gender they are

In the animal kingdom, animals find a mate for procreation on the basis of the Darwinian principle of Natural Selection. Whichever mate exudes the qualities that most represents the genes essential for survival get chosen. Thanks to evolution and our resultant powerful brains, humankind has lost many of its animal-like customs in favor of customs strictly seen in organisms with extremely developed brains. Beauty is a modification of this aforementioned animalistic instinct and a product of our hyperconscious brains. Now, beauty is a subjective taste that generally varies in small ways from person to person. The cause of such small variance in what would appear to be an extremely subjective matter is the prevalence and importance of societal values. Beauty, specifically among American men has been tailored to a certain mold in which the man has a muscular trim physique . The abundance of these muscular trim physique men in the media has made it a norm which American men feel forced to become, thus resulting in poor body image for those who cannot ascribe to such a standard as well as health detriments to those who try and or reject such a standard .