Female Competitiveness
To silly for words. Talk about re-inventing the wheel. Who in their unwitting innocence is unaware that women, particularly those women in the game of searching for a suitable male partner, can be very suspicious of other women who are also in hot pursuit of partners.
Women who are more-than-average attractive, and whose sexuality is on clear display have always earned disparaging comments from other women. These women have always been given a cold shoulder, edged out of social gatherings, found themselves on the periphery of activities and cliques.
They do not, in fact, actually have to groom themselves conspicuously to gain the attention of males. If they happen to exude attraction, despite being garbed modestly, or behaving in a modest manner, they earn the jealous scorn of other women.
So was a special study launched by a University of Ottawa professor on this very topic really necessary? If she had wanted to confirm what she obviously suspected, all she would have had to do was interview a few young women.
Instead, the results of her study published in the journal Aggressive Behaviour, was validation gained through enacting a scenario.
In which instance one very curvaceous, beautiful young woman dressed provocatively on one occasion when she entered a room full of other young women, and alternately dressed modestly on another occasion. The reactions and attitudes toward her on the part of the onlooking young women were recorded.
And the predictable result: enmity and animosity.
This information garnered through a structured study. Which, presumably, gives it more resonance than a series of casual interviews. Even the casual interviews wouldn't be a requirement in any age when human relations between competing young females for males' attention is gauged. It is so common as to be an assumption.
It is so self-evident as to be laughably-predictable. One can only hope she managed to conduct her study which took place at McMaster University in Hamilton, without a grant. Which funding might surely have been capable of producing far more useful data had it been directed elsewhere...?
Women who are more-than-average attractive, and whose sexuality is on clear display have always earned disparaging comments from other women. These women have always been given a cold shoulder, edged out of social gatherings, found themselves on the periphery of activities and cliques.
They do not, in fact, actually have to groom themselves conspicuously to gain the attention of males. If they happen to exude attraction, despite being garbed modestly, or behaving in a modest manner, they earn the jealous scorn of other women.
So was a special study launched by a University of Ottawa professor on this very topic really necessary? If she had wanted to confirm what she obviously suspected, all she would have had to do was interview a few young women.
Instead, the results of her study published in the journal Aggressive Behaviour, was validation gained through enacting a scenario.
In which instance one very curvaceous, beautiful young woman dressed provocatively on one occasion when she entered a room full of other young women, and alternately dressed modestly on another occasion. The reactions and attitudes toward her on the part of the onlooking young women were recorded.
And the predictable result: enmity and animosity.
This information garnered through a structured study. Which, presumably, gives it more resonance than a series of casual interviews. Even the casual interviews wouldn't be a requirement in any age when human relations between competing young females for males' attention is gauged. It is so common as to be an assumption.
It is so self-evident as to be laughably-predictable. One can only hope she managed to conduct her study which took place at McMaster University in Hamilton, without a grant. Which funding might surely have been capable of producing far more useful data had it been directed elsewhere...?
Labels: Human Relations, Particularities
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