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PROBLEM: Women’s bare bodies are on display in billboards, movie posters, and many other kinds of ads. Though plenty of studies have looked at the ramifications of this pervasive sexual objectification, it’s unclear if we see near-naked people as human beings or if we really do view them as mere objects.

METHODOLOGY: Researchers led by Philippe Bernard presented participants pictures of men and women in sexualized poses, wearing a swimsuit or underwear, one by one on a computer screen. Since pictures of people present a recognition problem when they’re turned upside down, but images of objects don’t have that problem, some of the photos were presented right side up and others upside down. After each picture, there was a second of black screen before each participant was shown two images and was asked to choose the one that matched the one he or she had just seen.

RESULTS: The male and female subjects matched the photos similarly. They recognized right-side-up men better than upside-down men, suggesting that they saw the sexualized men as persons. On the contrary, the women in underwear weren’t any harder to recognize when they appeared upside down, indicating that the sexy women were consistently identified as objects.

CONCLUSION: People objectify women in sexualized photos, but not men.

SOURCE: The full study, “Integrating Sexual Objectification With Object Versus Person Recognition: The Sexualized-Body-Inversion Hypothesis,” is published in the journal Psychological Science.

We treat objects like women, man!

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The plain fact is that the planet does not need more “successful people”. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of every kind. it needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and human, and these qualities have little to do with success as our culture has defined it.

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David Orr  (via sitasays) (via thebeldam, free-wilderness) (via voiceofnature)

Always re-blog, as a reminder to myself if nothing else.

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Hamilton, the most brilliant American statesman who ever lived, possessing the loftiest and keenest intellect of his time, was of course easily the foremost champion in the ranks of the New York Federalists; second to him came Jay, pure, strong and healthy in heart, body, and mind. Both of them watched with uneasy alarm the rapid drift toward anarchy; and both put forth all their efforts to stem the tide. They were of course too great men to fall in with the views of those whose antagonism to tyranny made them averse from order. They had little sympathy with the violent prejudices produced by the war. In particular they abhorred the vindictive laws directed against the persons and property of Tories; and they had the manliness to come forward as the defenders of the helpless and excessively unpopular Loyalists. They put a stop to the wrongs which were being inflicted on these men, and finally succeeded in having them restored to legal equality with other citizens, standing up with generous fearlessness against the clamor of the mob.

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The system of direct democracy was what propelled the Greeks into the greatest civilization the world has ever known. Meaningless phrases like “anarchy” and “the mob” have always been used by those in power to undermine this system. I don’t understand the obsession progressives have with Theodore Roosevelt, the guy was a fake populist, an unashamed imperialist, and an enemy of labor. When real heroes of labor like Upton Sinclair were writing books like The Jungle, Roosevelt criticized them for spreading what he thought were lies and exaggerations. He hated them. Furthermore, the Federalists were responsible for the Alien and Sedition Acts, which locked up Americans without trial or cause barely a decade after the Constitution was written. Doesn’t surprise me in the least that Roosevelt was a Hamiltonian.

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Firstly, Hamilton is the hottest guy on money. Secondly, I love the enthusiasm for ancient Greece, but their very narrow definition of what constituted a “person” for purposes of participation in democracy make them far from the greatest civilization ever known. Thirdly, I honestly don’t understand the obsession with Roosevelt as a statesman either.

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