”After spending nine weeks wearing a 33-pound “Empathy Belly’’ suit supposedly simulatebeing pregnant , a GQ writer has reached a humbling conclusion.
“I learned that I’m not man enough to be a woman,’’ writer Benjamin Percy told Steve Harvey on TODAY Monday. “This suit just underscored that.’
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Percy wore the suit as part stunt and part experiment to deepen his empathy for what women experience during pregnancy.
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But the simulations don’t end there. Another demonstration from the Virtual Human Interaction Lab puts the player in the shoes of a homeless person on a bus who is described to have “few possessions.” The laboratory a…
