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In reply to the discussion: DU should be collectively ashamed that people here deny that objectification of women is a problem. [View all]nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)Believe me, there's very much a time and place for, er, appreciation of the human body. It's about what's appropriate in a particular context - Kate in space might be okay for the Lounge, but posting that in GD seems a bit like watching porn at work.
"A more egalitarian sexual sensibility" is not something I'm especially hoping for either - people like what they like, and attraction is largely an involuntary process. Part of viewing others as fully human is to put their sexual attractiveness - or lack thereof - in perspective, and realize that it's only part of who they are. The solution is not to condemn or repress sexuality in any way, but to perhaps compartmentalize it in a sense, e.g. keep it to appropriate contexts as I said above. If you want an analogy, it's like the difference between asking out a woman whom you've met at a social gathering, and asking a co-worker (especially a subordinate) out.