Men Are As Objectified As Women On TV - Game Of Thrones' Natalie Dormer Promotes Equality?

2017-08-19T17:12:21+00:00

Is there even such a thing as objectification?

Admiring someone's physical body or being sexually aroused by it doesn't make sense to be called objectification. Humans are sexually attracted to other humans. Unless a person is an objectophile, they're not interested in objects. So, why do people think that viewing someone as a potential sexual candidate is "objectifying"? More so, why do they consider it degrading or devaluing? Isn't it a compliment?

As Wendy McElroy once said:

'Degrading' is a subjective term. I find commercials in which women become orgasmic over soapsuds to be tremendously degrading. The bottom line is that every woman has the right to define what is degrading and liberating for herself. The assumed degradation is often linked to the 'objectification' of women: that is, porn converts them into sexual objects. What does this mean? If taken literally, it means nothing because objects don't have sexuality; only beings do. But to say that porn portrays women as 'sexual beings' makes for poor rhetoric. Usually, the term 'sex objects' means showing women as 'body parts', reducing them to physical objects. What is wrong with this? Women are as much their bodies as they are their minds or souls. No one gets upset if you present women as 'brains' or as 'spiritual beings'. If I concentrated on a woman's sense of humor to the exclusion of her other characteristics, is this degrading? Why is it degrading to focus on her sexuality?

Macheako · 2017-08-19T13:15:08+00:00

Better question: do men give a shit? Part a me thinks women just hate seeing how comfortable men are with themselves.

Imnotmrabut · 2017-08-19T18:15:08+00:00

OMG I feel so (((((OBJECTIFIED)))))

Title	Men Are As Objectified As Women On TV - Game Of Thrones' Natalie Dormer Promotes Equality?
Author	Imnotmrabut
Upvotes	49
Comments	12
Date	August 19, 2017 12:30 PM UTC (8 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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