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by nicenewtemp84 1116 days ago
Women often wear clothes that accents their breasts and butts, which have strong sexual connections. The most similar example I could think of was a guy showing off his penis the way women show off their breasts.
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Men demonstrate their sexual power differently: 1- confidence 2- intelligence 3- ambition, 4- sense of humor, etc. Physical appearance is just one among many attributes (attractive people are attracted to attractive people, other people may emphasize other attributes—just an observation).
And this groin accent, this is something that women find distracting in your culture and it would give men a competitive advantage?
Yes I do believe women would find it very distracting if mens penises were outlined closely at work. Mostly for negative reasons, because women find most average men unattractive in general.

Yes I think it would give attractive men with large penises a competitive advantage.

Somebody please come put their incel back in its box. Please.
I've 38 years old and been with approximately 50 women, just so you can recalibrate your incel meter.
It's not changing anything of my view about you, considering what else you wrote here.
This is basically your #1 fault. You make a stupid claim. I tell you more details and ask you to adjust your worldview based on the info you've received. You then say "nope, not changing a thing!"
We have a great opportunity here- the revival of the codpiece!
Or at least the use of packers. Oddly, enough we don't seem to see men utilizing these apparatuses too often. Given their supposed advantage, I wonder, why is this?

There is some historical evidence this is possible within societies. See Léon Cogniet's Louis Philippe I[1]. However, I don't exactly have any evidence that our society today, specifically in the workplace, that this holds true.

1. Painting, 1792. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L%C3%A9on_Cogniet_-_...

You don't see them because men would be fired for sexualizing their sexual organs the way women do.
Why don't you subscribe to the more reasonable explanation that accenting male genitalia doesn't confer an advantage and instead seem to be advocating for a "it does, but it's illegal," stance which doesn't seem to be rooted in reality?

Based on your comments, what seems to be driving your position instead is an assumption that there is a grave social injustice aimed at men. Is it not?

My main point is that women are already so coddled, and allowed to use their sexuality in the work place so much, that OPs company not hiring one chick is basically irrelevant.
Is this unlike the idea that women's bodies are inherently sexual? The idea that women's sexuality has power over men (usually as described by men) comes up a lot in discussions about the sexualization of women's bodies. Is this something different than that?