The Twin Harms Of Denying Women's Visuality

As is the case with all sexism, the demonstrably false idea that women do not experience visual attraction to men--or that they experience it to a trivial extent compared to how men are supposedly attracted to women visually--hurts men and women alike.  At its core is a denial of a basic aspect of women's existence, which in turn contains a denial of a basic aspect of men's existence.  Of course, even if the claim that "women are not visual," or at least that they are not "as visual as men," only hurt women, it would still be false and destructive.

On one hand, pretending like women are not visual robs them of encouragement to openly appreciate men's bodies in a way that is explicitly sexual and non-objectifying.  Since sexuality is such an important part of human life, this is an oppressive stereotype.  On the other hand, it would be difficult for people to be persuaded that women are not visual if they did not also erroneously believe that men are not physically attractive--or, at a minimum, as attractive as women are assumed to be by many in the Western world.

The male body does not possess a lesser default beauty than that of the female body [1].  Logically and Biblically speaking, neither gender is more beautiful than the other [2]; only individuals are more or less beautiful than other individuals.  It is very degrading to men to suppose that they lack physical beauty, in addition to the fact that it is degrading to women to deny their enjoyment of visual attraction to men.  Not only is the rejection of female visuality both fallacious and false, but it is also a rejection that inevitably degrades both men and women in at least some form.  There are blatant consequences that harm both genders.

The myth that women are not visual does not harm only women, and the ease of disproving it is rivaled only by the stupidity of those who refuse to toss the idea aside.  The form of neither the female body nor the male body is sexual, but both the female body and male body can be sexy to the opposite gender.  Only someone with foolish beliefs would deny such a thing.  That is precisely why so many people deny these facts: human civilization teems with fools.

[1].  https://thechristianrationalist.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-male-body.html

[2].  https://thechristianrationalist.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-beauty-of-both-genders.html