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I feel like that eye tracking study has room for refinement. That doesn't necessarily indicate that black women are more objectified so much as it indicates a lack of attraction to other parts of their bodies, which seems more like a matter of which races one is attracted to than how much one objectifies different races. Good ol' T&A are pretty uniformly attractive regardless of racial preferences, but those preferences are going to dictate one's interest in things like facial features, hair, and other, more nuanced physical attributes (and also the other way around, since that's kind of a chicken-and-egg scenario).

In truth, I'd say ogling is pretty equally objectifying regardless of what particular bits are being ogled: It's not like sneaking a glance at a stranger's face instead of her boobs shows any greater appreciation for her non-physical attributes. Citing that study as evidence of the Jezebel stereotype at work is kind of jumping to conclusions.

Now, the other studies? They more robustly support the conclusion, and I'm also not at all surprised by the outcome. That first study's just methodologically sloppy.

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