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- May 14, 2019
So what's the deal with this?
Infantilization, in this case, refers to the behavior you sometimes see where women will act like little girls when trying to act sexy, or when men will treat them like little girls because they find it gratifying.
People have put a fair bit of work into studying infantilization in old 50's advertising, but I think it still goes on to this day. I was once in a department store and there was a fucking "CINDERELLA SECTION" for jewelry. Then there's the weird "daddy" shit. Similarly, couples will call each other "baby" and the like, although admittedly, women due to that to their men too.
It seems to me like in a lot of cases, couples will show a sort of behavior where the nurturing parent-child relationship is layered over the romantic husband-wife relationship. Thus you get men who spank their wives to discipline them and women who laugh about cleaning up after their husbands (like they're a little boy). But the balance is very much towards women being infantilized rather than men. I assume it's due to men generally being the older and more powerful of the two.
If a grown woman wants a "Cinderella" brand ring for her wedding or still watches Disney movies on her own, she deserves a fucking beating. This society.
Infantilization, in this case, refers to the behavior you sometimes see where women will act like little girls when trying to act sexy, or when men will treat them like little girls because they find it gratifying.
People have put a fair bit of work into studying infantilization in old 50's advertising, but I think it still goes on to this day. I was once in a department store and there was a fucking "CINDERELLA SECTION" for jewelry. Then there's the weird "daddy" shit. Similarly, couples will call each other "baby" and the like, although admittedly, women due to that to their men too.
It seems to me like in a lot of cases, couples will show a sort of behavior where the nurturing parent-child relationship is layered over the romantic husband-wife relationship. Thus you get men who spank their wives to discipline them and women who laugh about cleaning up after their husbands (like they're a little boy). But the balance is very much towards women being infantilized rather than men. I assume it's due to men generally being the older and more powerful of the two.
If a grown woman wants a "Cinderella" brand ring for her wedding or still watches Disney movies on her own, she deserves a fucking beating. This society.