In a nutshell, yes, but let me be more elaborate in my bullshitting for the day. I have two answers that I've pulled out of my ass 'specially for ya. :)
I think that typically, women are more capable as well as permitted to express emotion period, so it's a given that they are more likely to have other means to remember with -- emotional experiences and events are easier to remember when one has the ability to commiserate on them, something women do all of the time. Men are not in general encouraged to discuss their feelings, not even with each other, nor ruminate on their emotions...so they usually don't. If one is not given a sounding board with which to express their emotions, nor given an acceptable aveune to remember in other ways...what is the conduit for which emotions, a natural part of one's life, can be set free?
It has to be something thot doesn't talk back, that's what.
Men are often labelled as being constantly involved in (and are accused of) objectification. How many (straight) men have heard a woman say, "You just look at XYZ as a sex object!" or "How can you not see past my BOOBS when you're talking with me?" Some women have been so articulate as to say that they feel objectified by male friends or lovers. Some men have been open enough to admit they often encourage each other to look at women as bodies rather than people. It's a power thing (there's books on it) but it's also a part of how a man is encouraged to see the world. So much in a man's world is about objects -- boytoys, boys' toys, money-making-bread-winning-career-focus, sports, fast cars...objects are literally part of a man's psyche and I would argue his emotional world. If a man's society, if male culture dare I say, is so heavily based upon objects, and objects are in part what defines a man's psyche...why should he not regard objects as reminders of his emotional life in every aspect, not just those that burnish his psyche, but those that serve as painful lessons as well?
Perhaps it is from this phenomenon that the term "object lesson" comes from...?
Re: Object Association
I think that typically, women are more capable as well as permitted to express emotion period, so it's a given that they are more likely to have other means to remember with -- emotional experiences and events are easier to remember when one has the ability to commiserate on them, something women do all of the time. Men are not in general encouraged to discuss their feelings, not even with each other, nor ruminate on their emotions...so they usually don't. If one is not given a sounding board with which to express their emotions, nor given an acceptable aveune to remember in other ways...what is the conduit for which emotions, a natural part of one's life, can be set free?
It has to be something thot doesn't talk back, that's what.
Men are often labelled as being constantly involved in (and are accused of) objectification. How many (straight) men have heard a woman say, "You just look at XYZ as a sex object!" or "How can you not see past my BOOBS when you're talking with me?" Some women have been so articulate as to say that they feel objectified by male friends or lovers. Some men have been open enough to admit they often encourage each other to look at women as bodies rather than people. It's a power thing (there's books on it) but it's also a part of how a man is encouraged to see the world. So much in a man's world is about objects -- boytoys, boys' toys, money-making-bread-winning-career-focus, sports, fast cars...objects are literally part of a man's psyche and I would argue his emotional world. If a man's society, if male culture dare I say, is so heavily based upon objects, and objects are in part what defines a man's psyche...why should he not regard objects as reminders of his emotional life in every aspect, not just those that burnish his psyche, but those that serve as painful lessons as well?
Perhaps it is from this phenomenon that the term "object lesson" comes from...?
Those are my thoughts.