Feminist critique: Yawn.

Your bored, aren't you?

Dude sure has a lot of ads on his site.

How is it I've never heard of this?

Seriously. The one Axe bit with the bikini swarm frightened me. Under ten bikini girls I can deal with: they are unarmed and I have boots. Beyond that, though, and they can start crawling over the bodies of the fallen, and eventually I will tire.

A distinct lack of Swedish librarians. Thumbs down.

Like I need another reason to move to sweden. Not that they'd have me, of course. But still though, Sarah and well stocked libraries, I'd kill more than one for that. Failing that approach, I might get a job and learn swedish.
Which is easier?

Very cheesy music. Interesting though, that most of the women, while attractive, weren't Hollywood-sized, and that most of them he seemed to videotape because of one outstanding feature (hair, legs, cleavage, smile)

You make me regret that I am at work.

The giant sunglasses thing is the ugliest fad in a while.

I don't know that the giant sunglasses thing counts as a fad. Although the shape of the lenses may have varied a bit, that proportion's been going on since 1998 at least.

I'd kill more than one for that. Failing that approach, I might get a job and learn swedish.

Of course, you'd be a more effective assassin as a Swedish-speaker. Maybe there's a Swedish mafia you could work for -- but then, a librarian probably wouldn't go for that.

What makes you think that?

Actually, that's probably not true, is it? A librarian could quite plausibly go for someone with precisely the opposite lifestyle and interests. Swedish mafia it is.

…what makes you think they'd be so opposite? Librarians are a shifty bunch.

I've always thought the wild, bacchic freedom of the librarian lifestyle was mostly benign and non-violent, though. Maybe that's just public librarians.

Librarians are a shifty bunch.

That's my mother you're talking about, Ben.

I've got to disagree with 11, although presumably Jackmormon and I live in different places. The giant sunglasses fad of the last ~2 years is pretty much the only fad of women's clothing that I've ever noticed in my life, aside from the "giant hideous block-like black shoes" fad of 1998-99. It was that obvious when everyone started wearing the giant sunglasses here in Pgh.

Whether it's a fad or not, it's generally hideous.

"giant hideous block-like black shoes" fad

I have no opinion on the giant sunglasses thing but the monster shoe trend was a true blight.

You're mom's a librarian, apostropher? How totally appropriate for the man with the internet in his back pocket.

20: the monster shoe trend was a true blight

Depends on who was doing it.

Giant blocky shoes are comfortable, though.

Giant blocky shoes are comfortable, though.

Lesbian.

I wouldn't think any shoes with 2-inch platforms and a further 2 inches of heels would be comfortable.

You're mom's a librarian, apostropher?

Yes, and my dad was a Baptist minister of music, then a psychiatrist. Probably explains a lot, huh?

Feminist rants are allowed in this thread.

That's mighty white of you.

I think the feminists have broken our spirit. (And a good thing it is.) Two thread of baiting, so close together, and little attention paid.

That said--and in the American spirit of defiance till death, even when wrong--I enjoyed the video. It made me miss New York a lot. My reaction isn't even particularly sexual. The video evokes feelings closer to what I feel when I have a crush on someone; mostly a sense of goofiness.

I'm a woman who likes women, and I notice them, but not quite in this unrelenting way...guys, is this what the guy experience is like? With or without the soundtrack?

And a good thing it is.

Shut up, hooker.

The feminists have broken your spirit, Timbot, if you think that any time a guy expresses lust or admiration for a woman, it's "baiting." Hooker.

I still have my giant blocky shoes. I tell myself that I am practicing thrift by not replacing them, and that is a virtue.

..guys, is this what the guy experience is like? With or without the soundtrack?

If you're willing to translate the author's requirement that the women consent to the videotaping to a guy's desire not to cause harm or offense through his ogling...yeah, more or less. And totally with a soundtrack, if not that one.

Or so it is for me. I didn't watch the thing all the way through, though.

guys, is this what the guy experience is like?

Not really. Or rather, only on certain days.

guys, is this what the guy experience is like?

Yes.

This has been another edition of Simple Answers to Simple Questions (h/t atrios).

Though if it provides any consolation or mitigation, I think -- hope, anyway -- that most of us focus less on individual body parts, almost in isolation, as this boy sometimes seems to, and more on the whole woman, which would include elements of her personality such as the expressions on her face and how she carries herself. Then again, I'm not sure if that makes it better or worse, now that I think about it. Less objectifying, but possibly more invasive?

For longer answers, and with a female slant, you may wish to check out Norah Vincent's "Self-Made Man," Chapter 4, "Love." (Great book. Lesbian researcher/writer spends a year passing as male, living in classic male-only precincts -- hyper-macho sales team, bowling league, monastery -- and, in Chapter 4, dating women as a [supposed] guy.)
Or part of the NPR "This American Life" episode on testosterone, viz, the interview with the F2M transgender who, once she'd started on hi-dose testosterone treatments, found himself unable not to check out every woman who walked by.
Or Germaine Greer's story (sorry, don't remember if it was only in an interview or also in one of her books -- if latter, probably "The Change") about having to undergo hormone treatments of some kind which emulated male physiological experience, and coming to understand it to be, in the closest I can remember her wording, "painfully aware at every moment of consciousness of having a penis, and of always needing it to be touched." She reported a radically different sympathy with men thereafter.

painfully aware at every moment of consciousness of having a penis, and of always needing it to be touched

That's bizarre.

once she'd started on hi-dose testosterone treatments, found himself unable not to check out every woman who walked by.

See? We can't help it damnit.