Ogling Boyfriend (Salon)

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In Salon's advice column today there was a letter from a woman whose boyfriend was visually checking out other women - even when they were together. He was apparently trying to hide it, but I guess he wasn't good at it, because she caught him several times.

My boyfriend is checking out chicks while I'm standing right there!

My sarcasm mode immediately turned on, viz:

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Dump the cheating bastard!

How DARE he obey eons of genetic selection for males who are constantly on the watch for potential mates? Doesn't he know that he's not even supposed to notice any other girl in the world, now that he's with his current girlfriend?

Even if he was surrounded by gorgeous naked starlets, it would be his basic moral duty to claw his own eyes out rather than look at him.

Nasty, dirty, filthy man. Doesn't he know that the only reason he has the instinct to appreciate female beauty was to allow him to meet his one destined soulmate? And that now that that function has been fulfilled, he must never find any other woman to be attractive?

He may whine that it's out of his control. NONSENSE! Everyone knows that the male sexual urge is totally volitional in every way.

Oh my god - I just had a horrible thought. What if he sometimes actually fantasizes about having sex with other women? That's the moral equivalent of ADULTERY! His girlfriend must sue him for divorce immediately - right after they get married, that is.

Then she can continue her search for the perfect non-girl-watching boyfriend. I'm sure he's out there somewhere!

In the meantime, I just had another horrible thought. What if her boyfriend ever decides to have a wet dream? Or even multiple wet dreams? Serial adultery - and she could catch an STD from one of those dream-sluts, to boot! She'd better get herself checked by a doctor right away. While she's at it, she could talk to her doctor about some form of medication or surgical procedure for her boyfriend which will eliminate all of those nasty, unacceptable sexual urges.

That may leave her a bit frustrated, of course, so she might also want to invest in a good vibrator. Which she will use only while fantasizing about her now-safe boyfriend, of course.

Problem solved!

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What do you think - was I unfair? :D

Comments

Re:Looking at other women

[(Anonymous)]

Even a man on a diet is still allowed to look at the menu.

I judge the sensitivity of this issue by the huge response it generated, to be a sore subject with a lot of women. Women need to get over themselves on this issue, the next time she is reading one of those trashy romance novels, or even a good one like the type Anne Rice puts out, accuse her of looking at female pornography, and of verbally ogling a man. Turn it around on them because that's what it is, thought control.

If men are dogs, then women are bitches. And what do you do with a bitch? You yank the leash, hard, to put her in check. No one has the right to ask their partner to abstain from anything less than a reasonable amount of looking at the opposite sex. Normal secure women get this. Insecure, low self esteemed women on the other hand, feel the need to control the man in their relationship, and this is one of the results. Say no to the feminazis. Not the Rush Limbaugh type, but the Andrea Dworkin type. Men are going to be men no matter what. It's in our genes, the only reasonable request is to refrain from the more socially unacceptable traits of ogling such as howling, drooling, barking, visible pup-tent, etc. As Katherine Hepburn remarked in The African Queen, and I'm paraphrasing here, Nature is something we were meant to rise above. But there's no way to remove it completely.