Women have eyes. Which means that unless we're blind, we too are visual creatures.

Donna Barstow

My previous cartoon for Psychology Today was about cavemen (Paleo men). They had problems, too, but they worked through them.
I originally thought of this cartoon when I noticed that some men I was meeting never asked me any questions. I thought, that's peculiar. Don't they want to get to know me better? Some guys are just...not the same as women that way.
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Thank you Leanne. This whole
Thank you Leanne. This whole "men are visual" idea is only an excuse to exploit the female body while we never get to see beautiful men.
I have discovered that I find more sights arousing than my husband or male friends. It's time we start encouraging and catering to female sexuality as we've done with male sexuality.
Watch out boys!
Yes
Yep. Women are visual too, and I agree...this 'men are visual' concept, although true in a lot of ways, is most often used to excuse not so nice behavior or the objectification of the female body. LOL..well, I like to check out a hot guy now and then without asking him any questions.
RE: Thank you Leanne
"It's time we start encouraging and catering to female sexuality as we've done with male sexuality."
But what's stopping you? Male sexuality (straight and gay) is "catered to" by online porn, and strip clubs and, before that, skin magazines and x-rated movies. Each one of these represented a business opportunity to someone. If women are just as visual then surely there must be an unmet-market for female-oriented visual sexual stimuli. And, indeed, there is one but it's tiny and very niche, suggesting that there's not a widespread demand.
It's okay for men to be lunkheads
It's perfectly okay for men to be lunkheads. Men don't have to talk, men don't have to clean up after themselves. They don't have to be polite. They don't have to be conversationalists. They don't have to offer to help, they don't have to be neighborly. They are men.
Society has given the men a blanket excuse. Only women have to be polite and follow basic rules.
It's perfectly okay for men
Anonymous wrote:It's perfectly okay for men to be lunkheads. Men don't have to talk, men don't have to clean up after themselves. They don't have to be polite. They don't have to be conversationalists. They don't have to offer to help, they don't have to be neighborly. They are men.
Society has given the men a blanket excuse. Only women have to be polite and follow basic rules.
Oh please shut up.
Enough with the men have it good women have it bad crap.
The more you try to be a victim, the more stupid you sound.
Grow up.
Actually she has a point.
Actually she has a point. Women have a lot of pressures to look and act a certain way.
I think that we're getting sick of the BS tho and speaking out, and that's what really pisses males off.
Women aren't playing victim, they're standing up for their rights. I can see how that would make you insecure.
Perhaps it's not women who need to "grow up"!
unwitting example
spoon wrote:The more you try to be a victim, the more stupid you sound.
Grow up.
You're setting a great example there, genius, by doing exactly what was described -- not being polite.
Generalizations
Might be true for many men, but not all.
Thanks to you and other site
Thanks to you and other site specific websites, I could put together a giant jigsaw puzzle.
Women are also visual, which makes men are more visual, is that our fertile period is uninterrupted, since the women is at most a third of their menstrual cycle.
Men are not more visual.
Men are not more visual.
As a female I can assure you I am interested in sex with attractive males all month.
I may have to disagree a
I may have to disagree a little with you.
Of course women are visual, they are not blind. Also, all things being equal a physically attractive male would have greater appeal than an ugly one.
But things are never all equal.
For males sexual attraction is mostly about a woman's looks and attitude (it is different for long term relationships). We really do not care how much money you make, your educational level, your status, whether you are a leader or a follower, the brand of your clothes you wear, the car you drive, whether you are introverted or extroverted, whether you can follow all the nuances of our conversation, whether or not you get us, None of those things carries much, if any, weight in considering how attractive a woman is.
Looks matter more than most other factors.
Women are different in that regard. Many times you see women end up with the uglier man, even for short term hook ups, simple because he had something he more attractive man did not have. Sexual charisma does wanders for ugly males. I am not saying looks do not matter, but there other factors that can turn an average looking Joe into a Don Juan de Marco.
Looking good is nowhere near enough to be attractive.
Hmmm
Homer..I agree and disagree. I know some women who's sexual attraction is about looks and attitude...and they don't give a darn about the money, etc. except when looking for a long term relationship.
Heck...if I am hit on by an attractive man, I don't care what he drives, what his bank account looks like...etc. etc. If we are a match in other aspects fine....if not, well that's fine too.
Well, this is one of those
Well, this is one of those arguments were I would love to be wrong. Maybe you are right, but it is not what I have observed as the norm (there are always exceptions).
My take is that if you were right then life would be so much easier, for everyone.
If I'm gonna pick up a one
If I'm gonna pick up a one nighter he's gonna be hot.
But I think women become aroused at a wider range of images.
Agree
Anonymous wrote:If I'm gonna pick up a one nighter he's gonna be hot.
But I think women become aroused at a wider range of images.
Yep. We are more open to what is attractive than many men are.
Well Then
If you insist that you are correct, well then that's your choice. I guess there are exceptions to every rule and I have seen many....it's the danger when you generalize and lump everyone into either black or white. There are some shades of gray in between. Not all women are like you described, many are though.....and although I know very few, not all men are only turned on by 'good' looks...again, there are exceptions to a rule.
So, perhaps we are both correct....you in saying the majority of men/women fall into these stereotypes...and I am correct in saying that there are those who don't, who are the exceptions.
My previous comment was Meant for Homer
My comment above was in response to Homer...
blahhhhhh
women act like entitled sloots and we don't need a "study" to prove that to us.Oh and men have never been allowed to objectify women when a guy does he's read the riot act by feminut
nation for it...mesanwhile women have judged and bashed men
to infinity for years on income,height looks etc...so can like your these angels and victims women are more judgemental and always have been THEY however have gotten a pass.
disagree
And men haven't been allowed to objectify women? Ever heard of Playboy magazine? And men haven't judged women for not being good looking? Ever heard of a beauty pageant?
And women always get a pass? Ever heard a man call a woman a whore or a slut? Ever heard a man call a woman a gold-digger?
Many young women have eating disorders because they see so many suggestions in the media, and hear so many comments, that they try to reach an unrealistic body shape.
You claim women are more judgemental, yet at the very beginning of your comment, you judge women as "sloots". Your whole message is more judgmental and bitter than anything I've ever heard from a woman.
Don't waste you're proverbial
Don't waste you're proverbial breath Gary, this one's a nut job.
Your post are interesting, I like seeing you here.
Feminists and their Mangina
Feminists and their Mangina apologists.....hilarious!
Keep playing the victim card ladies,you do it so well
and feel entitled to do so--so WTH go for it! They probably think Obama is "doing a good job" too...lol idiots.
Mangina man, you've posted
Mangina man, you've posted the same tiresome comments before. I guess you think calling a man by a female body part would insult a man? That works as an insult only for dumb men who think women are inferior. The rest just think it sounds childish.
Stereotypes...
When it comes to looks, most men will fuck pretty much anything, they're much fussier about who they father children with, though.
I think the old cliche about men being more visual is more in reference to sex, as in they get off seeing a hard dick entering a hole etc, as so often is seen in porn, whereas women possibly are more aroused by touch; although this may just be habit, from watching porn from puberty.
I definitely find having sex with a man with a ripped physique far more enjoyable than with your average non-exercising podgy guy, but we're all different.