I thought maybe that was it, but he also talked about the woman with veiny arms.

Unfortunately we still haven’t beat that disease. despite all the focus on it sadly up to half the population still suffers from viewing the world with MG.

I went to the comment section to look for this exact commentary (buried of course). But I would have never expected it coming from such an incredible specimen of meat such as yourself. Just a veritable buffet of boy right here. I have no idea what I'm typing right here. What should have been a text message (disappearing) will be archived forever in the index of shameful comments. RIP. Tushie pinches.

Yours,

Hot for (and approving of) Critical of Critical of (but hot for) Dentist

If he "meant no disrespect" then he doesn't see that this statement of his is deeply sexist and disrespectful:

> Dentist comes in. She’s an attractive blond that paid for about 50% of her looks.

The automatic assumption that a blonde woman is hired or is successful because of looks is grossly and deeply sexist. If he thinks that isn't disrespectful then that's a big problem.

The repetition is to highlight how he sees this in every dentist’s office.

Noticing what they look like at the time - perhaps as a brief mental observation.

Remembering an exact description of what every woman I briefly interacted with once looks like many years later, is something I can't really comprehend.

And even if I could recall their appearance, it's not something I would ever consider a salient detail to share with others in describing how my past dental visits were.

I'm sure it would also be salient to me if I went to the dentist and saw a hygienist some big disfigurement on his face. But if I then spent a whole paragraph talking about how grotesque it was when writing an article about the dentist, it would (rightfully) come across as weird and mean spirited

I can't think of anything less interesting. It would be like asking a cow if she likes grass.

> poll here (among straight men) to see if the women's bodies would have been as salient to them as they were to the author...

yes.

The comments on women's bodies are not relevant to the narrative, and they alienate readers (women and men). It's bad writing.