Are Autistic Men More Likely to be Misogynistic?

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The "Venus" was from a Cro-Magnon who probably worshipped a fertility goddess. It reflected what men enjoyed in women.

Alas, women were prevented from sculpting the male ideal.

The "Venus" itself might be objectifying, but it's not necessarily misogynistic. The prevention of similar objectification by women probably was misogynistic.

I don't think physical aesthetics, while "objectifying", necessarily leads to misogyny/misoandry. It is, at times, representative of an appeciation of physical beauty in its own right. I'm not ideal-looking--but there's nothing wrong with women enjoying one of those muscular Greek sculptures.

I believe physical attractiveness to be purely a subjective thing. My notion of what's attractive frequently does not reflect typical Western notions.

As if the image of male sexiness in media is any near of subjective - like seriously...

I'll never live up to any standard of perfection. Neither will supermodels of both sexes.

Anyway...the "Venus," by most standards, is grotesque and a caricature. No woman would want to live up to THAT ideal.

It's an amazing work of art, though. I can't hope to produce something like that.

I'm no Adonis....but I don't hate women because if that. I can't live up to any ideal....c'est la vie!

I like individual ladies for themselves. I don't juxtapose women I like with some supermodel. Beauty is almost always an "inner" thing. Supermodels could be ugly "inside."

Absolutely. I like "Rubenesque" women myself.

I hate it when people hijack my topic.

So I am going to hijack this topic.

So my first acquittance with autism was (drum roll please), "Rain Man". Only in fact, it was my grandmother's brother but I didn't know it at the time. My second was with my wife's cousin's daughter. Pretty much classic autism, and pretty sad, she is so smart, and beautiful, and nobody will hire her. Then the third was when I figured out I have what many call Asperger's Syndrome, and probably the best title I have seen is a mild case of Autistic Spectrum Condition, because it isn't a disorder, and I don't want to get into that right now.

But I think almost all of us believe autism is a 'spectrum'.

Then about a month ago, I came across an online article claiming that gender was a spectrum, not a binary. Of course I resisted at first, but as the presenter presented, I thought, hmmm, she has a good point there, and a good point there, and people on WP have claimed that they felt neither. How callow of me. And, since I believe (know?) that autism is a spectrum, who am I to say only autism is the only condition that can have a spectrum? My opinion and conclusion?

Gender is a spectrum too.

So I come into WP and see a poll and I am given the choice of male and female. What about the people on this forum we can't consider themselves binary male or female? Have a heart, please!

We're talking about misogyny amongst males. Let's hope there isn't any amongst people who don't believe in gender, or is not part of the gender binary

I believe gender is a spectrum. I, myself, prefer someone who identifies as female, and is anatomically female, as a lover.

Why do you think we're "leaving you out?"

lol, an NT guy that's been single/celibate for like 1-2 years is probably often as misogynistic as an autistic guy that's went 10-20 years or more. That's just a guess based on observations of them IRL by the way.