Your Bootstraps : Objectification and the Smearing of Male Sexuality

oneiorosgrip · 2013-12-11T21:31:32+00:00

The discussion on sexual objectification is an area that pretty clearly highlights the feminist tendency to decide whether they think a behavior is harmful/wrong or harmless/acceptable based on which sex they perceive doing it, and then attempt to come up with excuses for the double standard.

Last time I was in a discussion with a feminist on that topic, she insisted that the experience of being on the receiving end of sexual objectification was harder on women, and the impact was greater on women, but could not provide any evidence to demonstrate that. That's where those discussions fall apart pretty quickly; there are all kinds of assertions commonly made about the impact of objectification on female society and the individual female, but nothing in those assertions demonstrates that men don't experience the same thing at the hands of women.

This goes right back to the predatory exploitation of female proxy victim status by feminists. In treating an ordinary behavior (responding to people in layers of awareness/acknowledgement that include aspects the responded-to party might not want) as inherently damaging only when men do it, feminists are able to artificially induce a false social perception of women as being oppressed by everyday interaction with men. This allows feminists to use ordinary behavior to define masculinity as inherently destructive. That, in turn allows them to treat every success their movement has as if it has no impact on their claim of being oppressed. No matter what women achieve, because they’re claiming to have achieved it in the shadow of an oppressive force (male society), they can still also claim a disadvantage, and still look and feel justified in agitating for legal concession and privilege in response to that claim of oppression.

stemgang · 2013-12-11T20:27:50+00:00

I could not read the light grey text against white highlighting in the quoted section at the beginning of the article.

Bartab · 2013-12-11T20:48:55+00:00

With rare exceptions, I objectify everybody, everybody does. It's how our slow biological computers manages to simplify data into a processable amount.

Let's just start with this one: If I don't know your name, your real name, then I am going to objectify you 100% of the time. I give no processing time to your feelings, or how miserable your life is. In an objective manner, I simply don't care.

That's not going to change by crying about it.

Title	Your Bootstraps : Objectification and the Smearing of Male Sexuality
Author	delphin42
Upvotes	48
Comments	5
Date	December 11, 2013 6:34 PM UTC (12 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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