The Objectification of Women - It Goes Much Further Than Sexy Pictures
While I think articles such as these are helpful, I’m not sure they really tackle the issue at it’s source. The need to feel secure in one’s self leads to the sick need for Power and Control over others. Thus the Objectification of other human beings. This works for all genders.
Sometimes, I think the “man box” or whatever one calls the Patriarchal Society puts unnecessary pressure on men, thus causing the seemingly lopsided objectification of women. If conditions were reversed, I’m not convinced women would be less prone to it. We need to address this evenly. Focusing on men alone will not solve this issue, only cause men to feel defensive.
It is because society tells us that women are objects, not subjects, that Stephen Hawkings can declare women to be “a complete mystery”, and have newspapers gleefully latch on to this, declaring women “the greatest mystery known to man”. It is a common refrain for men to bleat about not understanding women, but this is because they have simply never tried, because society has trained them to never look at life through the eyes of a woman.
It is because society tells us that women are objects, not subjects, that when society is presented with a case of male violence or sexual abuse, everyone looks at it from his point of view: “Oh, he must have been provoked to have done that,” “He was a nice man who just snapped,” “He must have been confused by her signals,” “Maybe he’s been falsely accused, how terrible to have to go to jail for that.” With every victim-blaming, rape / violence apologist comment, society reveals through whose eyes it looks, and the answer is invariably the man’s.
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