Commentary: Why I resent Women (semi-humorous)

Check out this video: (watch a few seconds; it is pretty much the same all the way through)

Nothing remarkable, right? I don’t know these young women; visually they are reasonably attractive young women, but no more so than tens of millions of women you see on college campuses around the nation (ok, these ladies are Canadian). I know nothing about their intelligence, life views, political views, taste in music, or whatever.

But then they posted this 11 second video; the idea was for one sister to show the other that tights can appear opaque can become see-through when they are stretched.

Let’s just say that I’ve watched that video a few times; by the numbers of hits (more than a quarter of a million!), so have many other heterosexual guys. Yes, I’ll watch it more when my wife is away.

My point: even a rather ordinary woman (someone who is healthy, not too skinny and not too fat) inherently has a sort of power over me, and this isn’t “by my choice”!

Sure, it is kind of fun, but a bit of me kind of resents that! Part of me resents that my “reproduction instinct” given to me by evolution has made me vulnerable to being “lead around by my penis” by, well, the average woman! Women who aren’t professional beach volleyball players have this “power” (such as it is).

No, I don’t need therapy; I don’t spend hours thinking about it but I do notice it. Evidently so do many other guys. I’ll close with a story from yoga class:

our class meets in a second floor room which overlooks the entrance to the gym. One time I was looking at the entrance and chuckling: a local female triathlete was bending over her gym bag (facing my direction) and as guys came into the gym, they ALL gave a quick glance at her pushed-out-spandex-wrapped butt as the walked by…EVERY ONE OF THEM.

My yoga teacher (a substitute) asked me what I found funny and I told her. (the lass bending over the bag had left when the yoga teacher asked me). She asked: “what was she wearing?” and I responded “spandex shorts”. The yoga teacher said “I have to buy some of those” while laughing.

That was a joke, but well, many women know that they have “that power” and I think that they enjoy having it.
(ok, this “power” had a downside as well; too many times a good looking woman has passed over a better qualified women for things like promotion, and that is just plain wrong….so I know that there are good and bad things about this power).

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