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Just Because Your Brain Objectifies Women Doesn't Make it Right

Jeff Fraser | Posted 10.09.2012 | Canada Living
Read More: Vision, Women, Cognitive Science, Sex, Bias, Psychology, Perception, Feminism, Objectification, Gender, Cognitive Bias, Canada Living News
Jeff Fraser

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.

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Lordy, I Can See!

Yvonne Crittenden | Posted 12.12.2011 | Canada Living
Read More: Eye Operation, Toronto, Cataract Operation, Blind, Eyesight, Vision, Astigmatism, Short Sighted, Eye Surgery, Glasses, Canada Health Care, Bifocal Implants, Contact Lenses, Bifocals, Canada Living News
Yvonne Crittenden

When I was diagnosed with a severe case of astigmatism, or short-sightedness, it seemed like a life sentence. Those were the days when those who wore glasses were scorned as losers, and reminded of humorist Dorothy Parker's famous adage: Men never make passes at girls who wear glasses.

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