Study: Men who idealize large breasts are more likely to be hostile toward women
Viren Swami and Martin Tovée at the Universities of Manchester and Newcastle, respectively, look into the intricate world of why physical ideals are ideals, and in turn why they drive people beyond reason and morality in the current Archives of Sexual Behavior.
The problem is primal, so the research methods are not to be outdone. 361 white British men were “taken to a quiet private location” to look at women. Not real women; 3D computer renderings. The men were allowed to rotate them 360 degrees. The only difference among the women was breast size. …
Swami and Tovée compared the results with the men’s preferences in breast size, which showed that “men who more strongly endorsed benevolently sexist attitudes toward women, who more strongly objectified women, and who were more hostile toward women idealized a large female breast size.”
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Well I guess that explains why I’m not hostile toward women. I’ve always been a face man.
vegconservative on March 14, 2013 at 10:12 PM
If you’ve got it, flaunt it.
BKennedy on March 14, 2013 at 10:13 PM
My wife is…put together…and I can guarantee that not only will she reject my advances but would probably kill me in my sleep if I were in any way hostile toward her.
Actually she would wake me up to tell me to enjoy me last breath and then kill me.
Bishop on March 14, 2013 at 10:21 PM
I guess it depends on how far she has to stand from the counter while making a sammich.
lorien1973 on March 14, 2013 at 10:27 PM
I’ve kind of always been drawn to women that are… proportional. Seriously, if you can’t get along with them it doesn’t really matter what shape they are. I really hate these kind of studies.
trigon on March 14, 2013 at 10:30 PM
This passes as science? Right. And what about homosexual men who like large… oh well. I guess we’ll never see a studty like that.
It’s only the men who like real breasts we have got to fear. We need more men who hate breasts. They’re so much nicer.
JellyToast on March 14, 2013 at 10:31 PM
The hits just don’t stop coming.
El_Terrible on March 14, 2013 at 10:32 PM
Flange on March 14, 2013 at 10:37 PM
Perhaps there is a positive correlation having large breasts and being a bad mother.
YiZhangZhe on March 14, 2013 at 10:41 PM
This means being polite to women merely because they are women. Hint: The researchers feel this is a bad thing. I suppose they wouldn’t object to you being polite to a black person, say, merely because the person is black – unless it were a black woman, maybe?
That is, just sees them as ‘things’ not people – it would be like writing a play totally from the perspective of a vagina, for instance.
Presumably, this means even more hostile than politely thinking of women as giant walking, talking vaginas.
Well, really, if you’re going to hold some sexist, objectivist, and/or hostile attitude against an entire subset of the human race, isn’t it easier to do so if you can readily tell they belong to said subset?
Knott Buyinit on March 14, 2013 at 10:43 PM
That’s because they were nearly smothered as infants by their overbearing mothers’ huge breasts. They transferred that hostility towards all women.
onlineanalyst on March 14, 2013 at 10:46 PM
This means being polite to women merely because they are women. Hint: The researchers feel this is a bad thing. I suppose they wouldn’t object to you being polite to a black person, say, merely because the person is black – unless it were a black woman, maybe?
That is, just sees them as ‘things’ not people – it would be like writing a play totally from the perspective of a female primary sexual characteristic*, for instance.
Presumably, this means even more hostile than politely thinking of women as giant walking, talking female primary sexual characteristic*.
Well, really, if you’re going to hold some sexist, objectivist, and/or hostile attitude against an entire subset of the human race, isn’t it easier to do so if you can readily tell they belong to said subset?
*yes, I had to do that to get around the filter
Knott Buyinit on March 14, 2013 at 10:48 PM
Explains why hot chicks love A-holes.
Ben Hur on March 14, 2013 at 10:49 PM
Anti-Rape Lesson #23: Keep your breasts small. Small breasts are less likely to incite violence.
BobMbx on March 14, 2013 at 10:53 PM
Heh, me too. A face man who especially enjoys an athletic female body.
Woof!
petefrt on March 14, 2013 at 10:54 PM
So in other words, men who never grow out of being 8th graders are more likely to act stupid toward women? SHOCKA!
MelonCollie on March 14, 2013 at 11:05 PM
Most interesting thing about this study is looking at the questions used to identify “hostility” and “sexism.”
And, I might add that men who idealize large breasts are likely to be “not gay.” I wonder if that was controlled for.
besser tot als rot on March 14, 2013 at 11:11 PM
Large breasts and
big awide hips – ideal for child-bearing/rearing.OldEnglish on March 14, 2013 at 11:12 PM
Winner winner, chicken dinner.
BTW, I’m a face/hair man, too, but this study is just more junk science.
The Rogue Tomato on March 14, 2013 at 11:20 PM
That explains why most of my friends have been male. ///
annoyinglittletwerp on March 14, 2013 at 11:22 PM
I thought this title was Men who idealize large beasts are more likely to be hostile toward women.
What a disappointment. I thought there would surely be some interesting claims. But no. And large
breastsudders are nasty. Never got the whole big boobs thing. And women buy into it way more than men. Probably projecting their own attitudes about men’s sexual pieces.Daikokuco on March 14, 2013 at 11:25 PM
Wagnerian breasts with the winged helmet and the braids and the horse and the sword and so forth are okay, but it takes powerful, tanned athletic thighs to run me down and imprison me in a vise-like grip.
Seth Halpern on March 14, 2013 at 11:35 PM
Ashley Judd?
Oil Can on March 15, 2013 at 12:54 AM
Men who fixate on any female body part should be beaten to a pulp.
profitsbeard on March 15, 2013 at 1:30 AM
What if that part is the lady’s heart? Can I get an “Awww…”?
Othniel on March 15, 2013 at 2:10 AM
Background for rational people, i.e., people not steeped in the academic language of sexism. “Benevolent sexism” refers to attitudes that were once considered gentlemanly in society, such as women should be put on the lifeboats of the Titanic, men should open doors, etc. These benevolent attitudes sustain the outmoded idea that there are differences between male and female, which differences are actually only social constructs. These social constructs, while favoring women on the surface, in fact hinder them by legitmizing, to some degree, the other forms of sexism. “Hostile sexism” is belief in traditional gender roles, and opposition to and antipathy toward women who challenge traditional gender roles, i.e. liberal women. Hostile sexism does not imply hostility toward women generally, but hostility toward people like Sandra Fluke, Janeane Garafolo, Rachel Maddow, or those whom Rush Limbaugh calls femi-nazis. “Benevolent sexists” put women on a pedestal. “Hostile sexists” have disdain for women that don’t want to be put on a pedestal. “Hostile sexism” in this context has nothing to do with violence towards women and everything to do with a liberal agenda of discrediting men who believe in traditional gender roles by calling them “hostile” and therefore threatening and dangerous.
Ted Torgerson on March 15, 2013 at 2:38 AM
I tend to prefer the a-cup range myself. Mmm.
mythicknight on March 15, 2013 at 2:51 AM
Geez. Next time husband wants to play “motorboat” ‘tween my bosoms, I should slap him silly…with both lethal weapons.
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on March 15, 2013 at 5:26 AM
So, if I admire a lady’s large breasts and want to go out with her, she should decline the invitation and stay home because I am scientifically proven to be hostile toward her?
I’m trying to grasp the practical application of this study. It sounds like a scam by small-breasted women to keep the competition off the streets.
2ndMAW68 on March 15, 2013 at 6:13 AM
Uh, define “idealize” please. While we’re at it, define “large” as applies to breasts. Seems to me there is more of a political statement in this than a science statement. It also seems that statement is that “men who like women for their looks are azzholes.” Gays and ugly women have been saying that for years.
MikeA on March 15, 2013 at 7:37 AM
Go easy on him. Whips and spurs will probably be all he needs to get straigented out.
MikeA on March 15, 2013 at 7:52 AM
Al Bundy was obsessed with “big ‘uns” and look at how much he put up with from Peg….
viking01 on March 15, 2013 at 8:31 AM
and thus Libs created the Large Breasts Free Zone Act…
hillsoftx on March 15, 2013 at 8:59 AM
That’s absurd.
ALL bros like big’uns.
The Schaef on March 15, 2013 at 9:29 AM
Yet another “study” that is really nothing more than an excuse for guys to look at women’s breasts. Which I don’t have a problem with, except that it is probably taxpayer funded.
rbj on March 15, 2013 at 9:32 AM
Before I read the article, I just like to mention -
Imagine a researcher’s name as Swami!
/ok now back on topic
Sir Napsalot on March 15, 2013 at 9:35 AM
I’ll just pop in to say, it doesn’t matter what size they are, as long as ya got ‘em! I don’t fixate on breasts, or legs, or any part – I fixate on women. *waggles eyebrows* C’mon ladies, bring it!
GWB on March 15, 2013 at 9:37 AM
Since there seems to be no concensus on this, I think we need further study. Ladies, pictures please.
MikeA on March 15, 2013 at 9:49 AM
I find large breasts comical, and not in a good way.
A “leg” man myself.
CurtZHP on March 15, 2013 at 10:06 AM
Traditional misogyny associates a woman’s hair with dangerous sexuality, btw.
Seth Halpern on March 15, 2013 at 11:32 AM
Thank you for explaining all of that.
YiZhangZhe on March 15, 2013 at 12:18 PM