University cancels its annual jelly-wrestling contest after feminist complaints

This isn't a serious story, it's just trifling.

Yes but those women choose to take part - they are not being forced!

Are the girls forced to participate? If not, I see no problem. They could always have men wrestling after the women, so people can't complain that its feminist but if you don't want to watch you can go somewhere else

It's not about the women who choose to take part - it's about how women are being treated as sex objects for the enjoyment of mainly men and how that is shown throughout the whole of society. University is one of the only places where you can get your voices heard and will actually have a chance of being listened to. The people who set up the petition are targeting an area of society they don't agree with by targeting a mini version of the problem within their university. They didn't go to a higher authority to get it banned - they simply showed there was opposition to the event and appealed to its organisers to end it. That's how we change social attitudes. We do what we can at the level that we can until those attitudes become more widespread.

Huge muscles would be achieveable, they would just require an insane amount of work. Bigger breasts or bums are not achieveable through working out alone- women actually have to undergo surgery to look like the women we are told we are supposed to look like.

The objectification of men is not on the same scale as the objectification of women. If you think it is, you are delusional.

Party pooper.

Geddit, party, jelly at party?

Men are definitely objectified too. I was going to mention that in my previous comment, but that would have been going off topic as we're talking about the objectification of women in this thread.

Huge muscles would be achieveable, they would just require an insane amount of work. Bigger breasts or bums are not achieveable through working out alone- women actually have to undergo surgery to look like the women we are told we are supposed to look like.

The objectification of men is not on the same scale as the objectification of women. If you think it is, you are delusional.

I bet most of those 1000 people were far too ugly/flat to join it, so they've banned it out of jealousy

You sicken me, they are athletes not objects for your sexual pleasure!

The same scale? It's subjective, like I said I see a lot pressure from the media telling how men look like and again they do have unrealistic expectations as most of the men they show do not have natural bodies. The average Joe on the street does not have the genetic potential to reach that limit.

No let me watch my beach volleyball in peace ok!!!!

I don't particularly want to get involved in this debate, but can i just say that i strongly object to this huge over-simplification. So many factors in male attractiveness are not alterable at all, and so many female factors are alterable. For example, far more men admit to injecting steroids than women have boob jobs each year.

Beach volleyball is shameless, they were going to put QR codes on the bums for funding around the Olympics. They know their target market. Beach volleyball to be honest is only popular due to the women being scantily clad, if you were actually interested you would watch volleyball. It only gets that much coverage as they can post pictures of girls in bikinis and girls bums for the purposes of sports journalism.

Duude, I was kidding, I thought the exclamation marks would suggest that

Yet another example of a (presumably) female person downplaying the male side of an issue to make themselves look like a victim for longer