Double Standard?

I was thinking a lot about the discussion in class about the "gross" factor of TTTE and the difference between male and female nudity as well as the sexual disturbance versus emotional disturbance.

I don't really understand why female nudity seems to be so much more acceptable than male nudity. Male nudity seems to be more shocking and disturbing to a majority of people and I think it may just be because we aren't used to it. I don't know the initial reason it started but female nudity has been shown much more and it has slowly become acceptable, in a sense. Also, it's not a normal type of scenario. The book is really hard to understand and when you don't really know what's going on but you read a sentence that talks about someone coming out of nowhere and masturbating and the smell of KY it's a little bit of a set back. I don't really find TTTE disturbing or gross but I think that it's more of a shocking unfamiliar element that throws me off.

Also, something that stuck with me was why don't we get pissed off at things that mess with our emotional side? It seems to me that going into a movie or book knowing that it's a romance or drama or whatever our choice is gives us a sense of control. Emotions are a tricky thing and we can't control the way we feel often times, things upset us that we don't want to or we care about people we shouldn't. If we go into a movie aware of the fact that it's going to me dramatic and probably make us cry, we know that we made the choice to go through that instead of just being pulled around by our lives.