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In reply to the discussion: For those women who think objectifying women as sex objects is OK [View all]KitSileya
(4,035 posts)is what chills me the most. They simply do not care about the wider consequences of the increasing focus on women's looks and body parts. They don't want to think about what it does to young girls and boys, and if we try to encourage them to think about it, we are "mean". And that is an exact quote - our meaning with trying to explain this is "to be mean."
Well, let me tell you, that is such a republican way of thinking, that if it weren't for the fact that it would hurt so many good progressives, I'd be tempted to let them live with the consequences of their views, just like so many of us would like to do for republicans. Unfortunately, they don't care about the world their children and grandchildren grow up in, and they certainly don't care about unrelated women who tell them their experiences and how this focus on t&a hurts them - for they don't believe these women anyway. Why should they?
Like republicans who don't care when Tree-hugger talks about how it is being poor in America, they don't care to hear about young teenage girls starving themselves and considering boob jobs to live up to the supernatural perfection (courtesy of Adobe Photoshop tm) they see in SI and elsewhere - for they hardly see any women do anything else, and if they do, the first paragraph in any article about any accomplished woman comments on her looks, so they know how important it is. And these posters don't care about boys being encouraged to disdain anything that is considered feminine if it isn't something to stick their willie in. Why should boys play with girl things, why should boys actually talk to girls - they're only good for one thing, right? And when those same boys don't have anyone to talk to, and haven't been taught how to talk about their feelings, and some of them commit suicide because of it, that's just too bad, because the right to look at SI swimsuit issue and all the other semi-nude pics of women is more important.
I have never been so disappointed by such so-called Democrats in my life.