著者

田房 永子

出版者

日本女性学会

雑誌

女性学 (ISSN:1343697X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.27, pp.36-40, 2020-04-15 (Released:2021-10-22)

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Some websites for men advise men in their 50s to approach women in their 20s to 30s. These texts encourage older men, claiming that they are desirable targets for young women's romantic dates. This type of message, also seen in men's magazines, is now widespread, while in reality, women see it as one of the contributors to the pervasiveness of sexual harassment.  Those male writings describe “women's characteristics” solely from their notably unique perspective and judgments. As its example, an author of Theory on Love, a male university professor, writes that men should know women's menstrual cycles because of their preference for men changes before and after their period. He also gives very questionable advice that men should not care if menstruating women reject them because they are too concerned with their blood scent or sanitary items. It is not so strange that this type of message is embraced by those men who learned about women only from adult magazines or porno, having no interaction with real women during their adolescence.  Thus some men talk and write about women's bodies more confidently than women do, and many more men blindly absorb these opinions, not taking into account any women's own perspective. How stubborn men are in their refusal to know the reality!