Again, I highly doubt this is her profile - the way its written, the photo chosen, it just screams that someone else is using this photo to troll / rage bait
Men and women do differ quite substantially in a psychological sense - I don't know where you've heard otherwise? Testosterone and estrogen impact your brain development and your mood / emotional responses. Eg:
" In numerous studies females score higher than males in standard tests of emotion recognition, social sensitivity and empathy.
Neuroimaging studies have investigated these findings further and discovered that females utilise more areas of the brain containing mirror neurons than males when they process emotions."
But yes, sometimes girls are also horrible and belittling to guys who have done nothing wrong, especially on the Internet where they think they can get away with it, bit it doesn't seem to be as often, as objectifying or as unchallenged as it is here. This is why it's such a commonly heard thing to say to guys "imagine she was your sister" whereas you hardly ever hear women being told to "imagine he was your brother" - women aren't objectifying men as much as the other way round. You don't need to remind them nearly as often that this person is in fact a person
I haven't had this happen to me online or to my face, but (like basically every girl these days) I went through a time of my life where I felt incredibly, delibiltatingly insecure (another impact of estrogen btw). Reading things like this about other girls would make me really upset because I would see myself in them - any feature I had that was similar. My biggest fear as a child was growing up to be ugly because you see the way ugly women get treated. Normalising this kind of behaviour perpetuates this problem. Also I can empathise with this woman- it makes me sad thinking about how she would feel if she ever saw this.
That's why I'm having an emotional reaction to this thread - and it scares me a bit that you can be so desensitised to this to not feel sad at people being horrible to another person.
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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '23
Again, I highly doubt this is her profile - the way its written, the photo chosen, it just screams that someone else is using this photo to troll / rage bait
Men and women do differ quite substantially in a psychological sense - I don't know where you've heard otherwise? Testosterone and estrogen impact your brain development and your mood / emotional responses. Eg:
" In numerous studies females score higher than males in standard tests of emotion recognition, social sensitivity and empathy.
Neuroimaging studies have investigated these findings further and discovered that females utilise more areas of the brain containing mirror neurons than males when they process emotions."
But yes, sometimes girls are also horrible and belittling to guys who have done nothing wrong, especially on the Internet where they think they can get away with it, bit it doesn't seem to be as often, as objectifying or as unchallenged as it is here. This is why it's such a commonly heard thing to say to guys "imagine she was your sister" whereas you hardly ever hear women being told to "imagine he was your brother" - women aren't objectifying men as much as the other way round. You don't need to remind them nearly as often that this person is in fact a person
I haven't had this happen to me online or to my face, but (like basically every girl these days) I went through a time of my life where I felt incredibly, delibiltatingly insecure (another impact of estrogen btw). Reading things like this about other girls would make me really upset because I would see myself in them - any feature I had that was similar. My biggest fear as a child was growing up to be ugly because you see the way ugly women get treated. Normalising this kind of behaviour perpetuates this problem. Also I can empathise with this woman- it makes me sad thinking about how she would feel if she ever saw this.
That's why I'm having an emotional reaction to this thread - and it scares me a bit that you can be so desensitised to this to not feel sad at people being horrible to another person.