Gross dude. As someone with a weakass stomach I would probably puke again just because of the first. My sincere condolences. I hope you feel better soon.
I did in fact, stop being violently sick. thank the fucking gods.
I must remind myself, that stress eating leads to crying on the bathroom floor and passionately calling my toilet a “cold heartless bastard”. Another reminder- for the love of god one bowl of chili is always enough. Just, let that spicey boy freeze like it should dammit.
You know what’s interesting, designer Jessica Ray - the actress who played the white ranger in Power Rangers Wild Force - actually started an entire line of swimwear based around brain studies like this. She gave a presentation in 2013 on the history of bikinis, invented in 1946 in France by Louis Réard, a car mechanic who looked after his mother's lingerie boutique in Paris. He named them after Bikini Atoll, the place of atomic bomb testing that year because he thought the public’s reaction to the bikini would be like an atomic explosion (it was so scandalous at the time no french model would wear it and he had to hire a stripper to debut it). From her presentation:
Princeton University had conducted a study of how male brains react to seeing people in different amounts of clothing, and brains scans had revealed when men were shown pictures of scantily-clad women, the region of the brain associated with tools, such as screwdrivers and hammers, lit up. Some men showed zero brain activity in the medial prefrontal cortex, which is the part of the brain that lights up when one ponders another’s thoughts, feelings, and intentions [...] researchers found this shocking because they almost never see this part of the brain shut down in this way, and a Princeton professor said “It’s as if they were reacting to these women as if they are not fully human; it’s consistent with the idea that they are responding to these photographs as if they were responding to objects, not people”.
(her full presentation here, it’s a very interesting watch, she refuses to wear bikinis anymore)
She designs swimsuits now with Audrey Hepburn as her inspiration
i like how in the tiktok, she still is too worried/scared to call out men, so she says “really sexist men”, when this effect is found in all men in the studies, regardless of their conscious views of women.
But where are the sources tho? Cause that’s something I’d read the fuck out of a scholarly article about.
it's literally linked in the caption
You know what’s interesting, designer Jessica Ray - the actress who played the white ranger in Power Rangers Wild Force - actually started an entire line of swimwear based around brain studies like this. She gave a presentation in 2013 on the history of bikinis, invented in 1946 in France by Louis Réard, a car mechanic who looked after his mother's lingerie boutique in Paris. He named them after Bikini Atoll, the place of atomic bomb testing that year because he thought the public’s reaction to the bikini would be like an atomic explosion (it was so scandalous at the time no french model would wear it and he had to hire a stripper to debut it). From her presentation:
Princeton University had conducted a study of how male brains react to seeing people in different amounts of clothing, and brains scans had revealed when men were shown pictures of scantily-clad women, the region of the brain associated with tools, such as screwdrivers and hammers, lit up. Some men showed zero brain activity in the medial prefrontal cortex, which is the part of the brain that lights up when one ponders another’s thoughts, feelings, and intentions [...] researchers found this shocking because they almost never see this part of the brain shut down in this way, and a Princeton professor said “It’s as if they were reacting to these women as if they are not fully human; it’s consistent with the idea that they are responding to these photographs as if they were responding to objects, not people”.
(her full presentation here, it’s a very interesting watch, she refuses to wear bikinis anymore)
She designs swimsuits now with Audrey Hepburn as her inspiration
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i like how in the tiktok, she still is too worried/scared to call out men, so she says “really sexist men”, when this effect is found in all men in the studies, regardless of their conscious views of women.
I get the idea of 'she's too worried to call out men so she tempered her language' but she's right - the level of sexism affected the results. Quoted from the paper - "Higher hostile sexism scores for men predicted decreased activation of mPFC (BA 8 and BA 10), posterior cingulate, and bilateral temporal poles in response to looking at sexualized women, indicating that more hostile attitudes predict less spontaneous activation of the network reliably associated with mentalizing. No such correlation emerged with benevolent sexism. [...] Finally, we would like to note that our findings applied only to the sexualized female targets; the HS-mentalizing network relationship did not emerge for clothed female targets, highlighting that these responses are unique to the combination of sexist male perceivers viewing sexualized targets."
Also I think it's important to say that the paper literally talks about how this is a result of social cognition and is not only affected by factors like race/ethnicity but ALSO applies to outgroups like homeless people (specifically that they are more often viewed as objects).
I was suspicious of something before I looked up the study and I was right - the test group for the brain activation tests was made up entirely of 'healthy male undergraduates', no mention of race that I could find, and all but one was heterosexual. "All participants were right-handed, native English speakers with no history of psychiatric or neurological problems, and had normal or corrected vision." Now I'm not shitting on the study's results, I think they did fine, but I do think it's important to note that this is a very specific subgroup of the population.
There's a tendency of academic research to put too much focus on white male college students (for so many reasons) and then people make broad assumptions about global populations without ever really thinking it through. I'd love to see a version of this study targeting non-white students, non-students, disabled persons, mentally ill persons, etc. Is it a failing of the initial study that these people weren't included? ehhhhhhhhhhhhh. They didn't include information on how they selected their group, so I can't say.
Anyway the point is, the methods section of any academic paper is literally the most important part to read and you shouldn't make assumptions about anything a paper says until you've read through it
