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In reply to the discussion: For those women who think objectifying women as sex objects is OK [View all]msanthrope
(37,549 posts)of opinion. Do you think the women on this board are incapable of nuanced, reasoned thought? Then why else would you post something so facile?
Your OP is demeaning to women because you are not asking questions in good faith...you are setting up strawmen. I think Major Nikon upthread eviscerated your technique quite neatly, so I will confine myself to the insult of your paucity of ideas.
Frankly, the SI issue ranks at about 47,987 on my list of things to give a fuck about. I get to see, nearly every single day, what poverty and a lack of education and opportunity does for women in real life...and you know what? Those women don't have the privilege of posting blather on an Internet forum about a magazine, because they are grappling with actual problems.
So I'm really glad that some women of HoF are focused on the fucking swimsuit issue...and not things like the fact that actual women and children in this country are starving, homeless, and true victims of an oppressive system that values them as trash. I'm really glad that what you've all decided to focus on seems to be decided based on class privilege....because frankly, I can only imagine privileged women, women free from want and with time on their hands giving a flying fuck and writing so much mental masturbation.