Lifestyle Television can reveal some very interesting ways that men think about women. Here is an example from the Australian version of the lifestyle show ‘Come dine with me’. In the show the contestants each take a turn at hosting the other contestants in their own home by providing a sumptuous meal and some light entertainment.
As part of the entertainment, the guests often explore the bedroom of the host. In one particular episode two of the male contestants went into the bedroom of the female host. One of the men opened a wardrobe which contained the suits of the woman’s husband. The man quickly closed the door, remarking, “Oh, I don’t like touching his suits, but I don’t mind touching his wife!”
What do you make of that comment? To me it says something about how men still view women as the property of men. How do men come to believe this? Where do these ideas find support within society? Why are they still circulating? How are we men tricked into believing them? What benefit is there to view one’s partner as one’s property? How do we go from viewing our partner romantically to viewing her as a possession? Surely experience of life for men, would be much more fulfilling sexually, emotionally and spiritually, to be in a relationship of mutual love and respect rather than viewing a woman as an object to possess?
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