Looking at Women

This article relates to our current assignment The Inquiry because it begs a question looking for an answer. How should a man look at women? Women display their bodies in a variety of ways. Some of us cover our bodies leaving it a mystery to men as to what we look like while others flaunt their skin to their surroundings. Should a man ignore a woman just because she is covered because she prefers attention as a result of her personality instead of her body? Should a man be allowed to gawk at a woman who is not dressed because she inherently gave him the right to stare at her when she decided to go outside with "nothing on"? Why do women expose their skin only to get upset from the attention they receive? I believe that how a woman dresses greatly reflects the type of attention she wants from a man and how she wants to be treated. Men have no control over their sexual instincts, no matter how much they try because that is how our culture has trained men to look at women through magazines, movies and commercials. Women have always been objects for sale in some form but now it is through prostitution, special films and magazine pictures. These pictures the media are feeding us create these false ideals of what the female form should be because these women that men look at for hours are claimed to be perfect and the normal woman cannot rival that. As a result of basic animal instincts “nothing in men is more machinelike than the flipping of sexual switches” which seems to be the only way men look at women anymore. You overhear the discussion of girls’ looks more than their personality among men. This is not how they should be looked at because we are humans too. We have emotions, feelings and a brain too. Women should be admired for her intelligence, personality and feminism.