Just Because Your Brain Objectifies Women Doesn't Make it Right
Jeff Fraser
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Posted 10.09.2012
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Canada Living
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Cognitive psychologists have discovered that our brains reduce women to their sexual body parts, and treat those parts as objects. The data confirms what many of us have suspected all along: we objectify women without even thinking about it. But does that mean that sexism is an inevitable result of our physiology? That's not so easy to answer.
