Boys’ Thoughts

Like all decent people, I’m a feminist. But I’m also a man of science, and the statement at left is simply incorrect biologically. Boys’ thoughts are often driven by girls’ bodies; it’s a scientific fact, and it has no moral connotation whatsoever.

Of course, if you want to say that girls’ bodies shouldn’t motivate boys’ sexual aggression, then you have a legitimate point.

But talk about sustainability! If boys weren’t aroused by girls (and vice versa) the last generation of human beings would have already been born, and we would no longer have a species here shortly after the end of the century.

The meme is an example of something deeply regrettable in present-day American society, IMO.  We try to pretend that romantic affairs begin when a mutual attraction happens simultaneously, and that flirting constitutes sexual harassment.  Don’t we remember when someone we had a crush on just wanted to be friends, but that friendship morphed over time into love?  Is there somehow something bad or wrong about this?