Sexy women make men feel bad

A study showing what I’ve been saying for a while… sexy women in the media are there primarily to manipulate men, not women. A lot of different women’s groups complain how “the media caters to men”… and I’ve always said that’s BS. The media doesn’t show us hot women to make us feel good, it shows us hot women to make us feel inferior.

Sexy Women Make Everyone Feel Bad | Science Blog

It’s no shock that the portrayal of women in magazines makes women feel like dirt. But did you know images of hot chicks make men feel worse, too?Everyone knows that the way women are portrayed in our culture – sexy, skinny, tall – makes the average woman feel a bit like the gum I had to peel off my shoe this morning. When we look at magazine ads or watch TV shows, we women feel inadequate – and it’s no wonder, when the average woman model weighs up to 25% less than the typical woman and maintains a weight at about 15 to 20% below what is considered healthy for her age and height. But the 40,000 or so ads the average American is exposed to a year aren’t just affecting the girls. A new study coming out of the University of Missouri found that men react negatively to unrealistic ads, too. What’s interesting is it wasn’t images of hot men that got the guys feeling self conscious – it was images of hot women.