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In reply to the discussion: Sexual Objectivication Explained (VIDEO) [View all]Gravitycollapse
(8,155 posts)79. We have a culture that makes female caregiving overly pronounced.
We lay a disproportionate amount of menial, private caregiving tasks on women and men come to expect that their lives be kept running and clean by other women. In other words, men expect women to take care of them.
So when men are left to their own devices, they have a tendency to come undone physically, emotionally and psychologically.
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so fucking what ? what has any of that got to do with not being seen as an object ?
JI7
Feb 2014
#37
That would be stupid. She can wear what she wants meaning clothes or make up for HER,
seabeyond
Feb 2014
#22
Finding a person attractive is not objectification. Asking them out is not objectification either.
nomorenomore08
Feb 2014
#94
that makes no fucking sense at all, her point was that women should not be objectified
JI7
Feb 2014
#26
"makes herself look sexually available" why do you think it's about offering something to you ?
JI7
Feb 2014
#51
"Sexually available"? You have an almost bizarrely low threshold for that... Just saying...
nomorenomore08
Feb 2014
#96
WTF ? she never said one should never try to be attractive , that has nothing to do with being
JI7
Feb 2014
#33
Being sexual and being sexual attractive is not the same as being a sexual object
gollygee
Feb 2014
#88
Good video, mainly aimed at men in our society ... however, would like to see video ...
MindMover
Feb 2014
#68
I don't get the analogy either... Is he admitting that she's far better-looking than he is?
nomorenomore08
Feb 2014
#99
WTF? Just when I thought I'd seen people pull the most ridiculous analogies out of their asses
nomorenomore08
Feb 2014
#98