# If we don't support this type of thread for women, why is this thread ok?

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**Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-dont-support-this-type-of-thread-for-women-why-is-this-thread-ok/853745/30 "2020-05-16T00:50:48Z")

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I myself don’t have a problem with much of that thread. Describing who you find attractive and why doesn’t seem like it should be inherently verboten. Not in a thread dedicated to the topic, as opposed to comments inserted in an otherwise irrelevant way, such as pointing out how hot whichever current politician lady is when the discussion is about Medicare for All or The Green New Deal or her ideas on how we’re responding to covid-19.

However, a particular post said the following:

> [@The Straight Dope for Women and Gay Men -or- Who is the hottest male celebrity?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-for-women-and-gay-men-or-who-is-the-hottest-male-celebrity/850112/40):
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> I think **Beck** nominated Robert Downey Jr.? Good call, girl. Was just rewatching Sherlock Holmes and loving how every movement and line gets imbued with subtle humor - he’s just so damn _funny_ in an understated way, that I find very panty-dropping. He has beautiful eyes (those eyelashes, jesus!!) but the fact that they seem always to be laughing about something or twinkling at a joke he’s made internally to himself takes them over the top into “mesmerizing” territory.

Underlining added for emphasis. I think that is the kind of gratuitous statement we have been cracking down on from men. If we don’t want to know what is going on in men’s pants when they think about women, we shouldn’t be hearing about what is going on in women’s pants.

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