Comments on: My face is up here, guys

By: tim

tim — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 21:49:01 +0000

I don’t doubt the validity of the study, but i think using the baseball player for part of it was unwise. Men could very well be gauging the strike zone or anticipating the swing.

By: n2y2

n2y2 — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:50:53 +0000

I am willing to bet that if they put a picture of Baryshnikov in his dance attire (leaving little to the imagination), his ‘distinguishing features’ would get even more eyeballs. However, put him in baggy jeans and the peeps would drop off. It think it is more that the bulge is getting attention than the guys are checking him out.

I also read about a study done in the last year that found that women check out men just as often as men gawk at women. Women are just less obvious because they use their superior peripheral vision to scope the bulges. So, that may be what is happening in this shot.

By: JOHN BROWN

JOHN BROWN — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:16:21 +0000

I WONDER IF BRETTS TEAMMATES TEASED HIM AND IF SO DID HE GET THE LAST LAUGH AND SAY ATLEAST I HAVE SOMETHING TO LOOK AT…HA HA

By: Stew

Stew — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:08:46 +0000

Maybe men are looking at whether he uses his hips to generate power in his swing! I’d like to see if this is true with a non-sports figure.

By: Rhea

Rhea — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:13:24 +0000

I agree with Miss Cellania. Men and dogs check the genitals for who is dominant.

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:00:55 +0000

Could it be an unconcious automatic reaction handed down from our prehistoric ancestors? Maybe males check for gender, then for the size of the cajones of another male, to see how how dominant they might be. In the animal kingdom, that would be useful in establishing heirarchy.

By: floretbroccoli

floretbroccoli — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:59:41 +0000

Funny thing. I remember, decades ago, seeing George Brett on The Tonight Show after he had hit some important home run. They showed a clip of the home run. Afterwards, the previous panel guest, Shelly Winters, asked Brett what he had in his back pocket. Carson asked her how she happened to notice anything in his back pocket, as he hadn’t.

What made me laugh at the time was that I, too, had noticed a big pad or something in his back packet. So I made the observation at the time, based on the tiny sample of Winters, Carson, and me, that women were more likely to look at a ball player’s ass than men were.

Now here we’re getting a similar study, also using George Brett as object. Odd.

By: Sheldon Siegel

Sheldon Siegel — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:55:46 +0000

What’s wrong with focusing at a mans’ crotch? For me, that’s usually eye level. ;-)

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:27:08 +0000

What about pictures of women and the focus on their chest?