What Women Really Want

When I get bored I tend to look up stories on the Yahoo.com homepage and that’s when I came across the title, “Study Investigates What Women Really Want” by Lisa Collier Cool.  I thought to myself “this out to be good!”  The researchers of the article wanted to test to see if women are more attracted to men with low body fat and not macho man features.  Did I read this right?  The type of guy gossip I ever hear around campus is:

 “Did you see that guy at the gym and how his muscles were big and sexy?”

“He is very tall, dark, and handsome!”

 How strange would it be if it were reversed?

“Did you see the way he looked at that baby; he would be a good father!”

“He is drinking orange juice; he must have a great immune system!”

Silly or not? Since the beginning of time, women want the ideal man to be the father of their child.  They want someone who they could picture their son to be like which include the ideal genes and the over healthy immune system. 

The researchers found three leading questions to be the deciding factor for such results:

1.)    Is there a link between testosterone and hotness?

2.)    What is the real secret of men’s sex appeal..?

3.)    What really makes a ‘babe magnet’?

I am going to attach the article but first…

·         I want you WOMEN to answer these three questions to yourself and then compare it to what the researchers have found in this article? Were you close? Spot on? Do you agree?

·         Now for the Men, I want you to think of how the average women would answer these three questions.  Were you close? Spot on?  Do you agree with what the researchers have found about your kind?  Are you comfortable with these results?

 

Overall, the type of men the women found most attractive was the men who had a body fat percentage of 12.  As a health major I know that these percentages put these men in the athletic category just missing the next less highly thought of status of fitness.  A second result was found that women are more drawn to men’s antibodies are what turn these fertile women on (Cool, Lisa 2012).  How do women get like this? The men we daydream about are usually the men who act in our favorite soap or fairy tale movie.  Are we going to meet our prince charming tomorrow?  Are we setting our standards too high? Do you think media has put such a role on what women should expect how a man should be to be ideal?

http://health.yahoo.net/experts/dayinhealth/study-slim-men-are-sexiest

How cute are dads with babies?

The other day ago in my Women Studies class, I read an article written about a type of Sweden’s policy. I thought it would be a boring article about the country and so on.  With it being in Europe, I assumed they did things differently over there, but I didn't realize how different they were and for the better.  Did you know by law, here in the U.S. those having children go on what we thought was maternity leave? Right? WRONG! It’s a family medical leave which is an act passed only a few short decades ago.  It allows families who have recently had a baby to take unpaid time off work.  Yes, you read correctly, UNPAID! They are guaranteed their job back after the short month or two; however, no income.   If you are like my family, not making income is just not questionable.   How is this possible?

Why are Swedish parents any differently you ask?  Well by law, they have a parental leave. The parents are allowed to take time as wanted to care and tend to the child.  This can be done in all sorts of increments. 

For example, the mother can take off for two months than the father for the same and back and forth for a short time and the best part ... IT'S PAID!!!  And YES, the father is expected in the country to take time off as well.  Here, if a man stepped out of the MAN BOX who knows what kind of ridicule he will receive from buddies and/or employees.  Would he be considered weak?

How cute are dads taking care of the kids just as much as the mothers do? Families in Sweden are much happier and have less divorce rate than here in the U.S.  Is this because both parents are sacrificing (if you even want to call it that) or is it because their government actually helps and plans for them to make families and have healthy parent-to-child relationships?

Do you think something like this could be done in the United States? 

If so, how long do you think it would take? 

What kind of things would need to be done in order for this to ever happen here?

In Sweden, Men Can Have It All

By KATRIN BENNHOLD

Published: June 9, 2010

The Voice vs. X Factor

I was watching some shows on television last night.  I am a huge fan of the Voice.  I have been watching it since the start of the season.  I really admire the fact that the show is based strictly on someone’s singing ability rather than their appearance. The judges pick their team based on the person’s voice and from there coach them to reach potential with their voice. I than came across the show X Factor, in which I was so overwhelmed with the stage set-up that I nearly fast forward through much of it. However, from what I noticed was it was much different from The Voice.  The contestants on this show were made to put on an outrageous show, have unique outfits, and be different than anyone else. I couldn’t help but noticed this girl who was no more than 16 years old was wearing these sexy but trashy tights with a lot of body revealing.  Another girl who was only 12 was wearing this punk rock outfit, which I found strange was when they showed her video clip of her ‘before the show’ she was this happy smiling, pretty in pink girl.  Why did this show want to change her?   I believe that society has become much of the problem.  We promote people who are good looking and put on a good show instead of their ability to sing, I guess this is why it’s called the X Factor.  It was very different for me to see such difference in the shows.  I mean both shows did coach; however, the advice that the Voice gave was different than X Factor.  For example, don’t quote me but pretty close was from the Voice:

 

“Loved how you really hit that note”

“You really went out there with the song choice and it worked for you”

“This was a different song for you but you really improved in the areas of the song that we worked on “

“I am so proud of you “

 

Now, these are some of the advice the coaches/ judges were giving to the contestants on the X Factor:

“You have a lot of sass on stage but when you get off stage you become shy and timid, you need to step up your game”

“The outfit went perfect with that performance”

“The entire SHOW really made me drawn to you”

 

To me it’s simple as to what show I would want to watch and let alone the show I would want my kids to be watching.  The Voice shows that anyone who has an amazing voice can become who they want to be.  X Factor to me shows that if you don’t have ‘the look, the show, or the attitude then you don’t have anything.  I just think that our society should help out the world and not have such shows like this or at least have an age limit.  What do you all think?