Glossy photos of girls on bikes!

And this is perhaps an example of the typical behaviour of the 'dominant sex' - to express approval or desire in terms of appropriation and ownership. I came across a rather tedious Facebook group where lots of men had posted pictures of Victoria Pendleton, and almost all of them were captioned "the future Mrs John Smith" (or whatever the poster's name happened to be). It amounts to little more than treating women as trophies, decorations, and status symbols.

Is it any surprise that men behave that way when both men and women judge male status in part by the 'trophy girlfriend' they have? I'm not exactly ecstatic that culture is this way, but it's not new and it's not restricted to western or capitalist cultures, and it's unfair to lay the blame for conforming with it exclusively at the door of males.