Warren Farrell's most controversial answer on his recent AMA. Discuss!

SwanOfAvon22 · 2014-04-30T22:32:47+00:00

It was a stupid decision for a number of reasons, but dear god the comments... a beautiful woman does have a measurable impact on a man's cognitive function. We know that because, ta-dah, we can measure it. Saying that doesn't mean men are slaves to their penises or lack the ability to control themselves, and it sure as hell isn't "misandric."

I swear, the ease with which people take offense to the most trivial things...

Watermelon_Salesman · 2014-04-30T21:44:54+00:00

He should have come out and just said it: sex sells. I'm a supporter of his work, but that answer is ridiculous. It reads exactly like hamstering, a convoluted rhetoric much more suited to bigots and feminists.

rbrockway · 2014-04-30T23:21:18+00:00

Well he's not wrong, males will do almost anything when it comes to women.

phySi0 · 2014-04-30T21:30:38+00:00

My response at the bottom:

i assume you're referring to the profile of a woman's rear on the new ebook edition of The Myth of Male Power. first, that was my choice--i don't want to put that off on the publisher!

i chose that to illustrate that the heterosexual man's attraction to the naked body of a beautiful woman takes the power out of our upper brain and transports it into our lower brain. every heterosexual male knows this. and the sooner men confront the powerlessness of being a prisoner to this instinct, we may earn less money to pay for women's drinks, dinners and diamonds, but we'll have more control over our lives, and therefor more real power.

it's in women's interests for me to confront this. many heterosexual women feel imprisoned by men's inability to be attracted to women who are more beautiful internally even if their rear is not perfect.

— warrenfarrel

heterosexual man's attraction to the naked body of a beautiful woman takes the power out of our upper brain and transports it into our lower brain

You need to stop throwing around pseudoscience like it's fact.

men confront the powerlessness of being a prisoner to this instinct,

Men are not animals without higher reasoning, you misandrist.

— SpermJackalope

Men are not animals without higher reasoning, you misandrist.

It's not PC to say that women affect men's minds, but they do. Here's a study that someone linked to above. The researchers found that when there's an attractive woman nearby, men's brain dedicated a portion of its resources to impressing the woman. The same thing didn't happen in reverse.

Saying that women affect men's higher reasoning skills is not the same as saying that men lose their fucking minds over a woman and can't help but rape them.

— phySi0

Demonspawn · 2014-04-30T23:22:32+00:00

It's a sad state of affairs when the truth becomes controversial because it runs counter to the narrative (of equality)

http://phys.org/news171536828.html

"The study measured brain function in 40 male heterosexual student volunteers, who were asked to perform a standard memory test in which they were shown a stream of letters and had to quickly say if each was the same as the previous letter. They then spent several minutes talking to either a man or an attractive woman and then repeated the test.

The researchers found that even a few minutes with the attractive woman was enough to make the students slower and less accurate on the test. The more attracted they were, the worse their results. They also studied the effects on women students of being in the company of handsome men, and found the test scores were unaffected."

2014-05-01T04:29:25+00:00

He's right.

The less you care about sex, the better off you'll be.

Title	Warren Farrell's most controversial answer on his recent AMA. Discuss!
Author	phySi0
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Date	April 30, 2014 9:30 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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