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To all the people who say that men shouldn’t look and should worry about their own bein odom lachaveiro,
this IS a bein odom lachaveiro issue as well as a mitzvah.
Of course men shouldn’t look, but some men find it extremely hard not to.
if your brother was a recovering alcoholic would you place a bottle of whiskey in from of him and tell him not to look?
If your brother is trying to lose weight would you put his favorite cake in front of him and tell him not to look?
So if some of your yiddishe brothers will be in shul/at the wedding/in the supermarket and they have a VERY hard time not looking, why tempt them this way? Should they avoid looking? Of course they should! But many men have very strong yetzer horas which require superhuman strength to overcome! Why do you want to make it so difficult for them not to succumb?
The examples mdlevine gave are soooo on the mark.