Sexual Objectification, once more
es- is me, for the record. I don’t know why my username is so hard to type out. It’s not in caps (ES-), and the dash comes after, not before, (-es), and sometimes the dash is omitted completely. But whatever.
your comments ES of
To be frank, I have absolutely no interest in watching my own gender publicly throw themselves at the feet of a man, making shrewd sexual advances, and simultaneously get clobbered by the male population on how we look like whores.
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I just think that girls publicly gushing over men in a forum that’s predominantly male-oriented is a poor decision, that’s all. While I understand the (admittedly girlish) intent behind it, others may not. In this very thread there are already feelings of exasperation about females squealing over how Yahtzee looks instead of focusing on the content of his review. Creating a thread about this will only perpetuate the response.
are something id expect a burn your bra feminazi to announce. a perfectly innocent comment by dreamer about yahtzees looks seems to have ccalled down your wrath and cause (well not an outright attack) you to jump all over dreamers statments and turn an otherwise innocent and normal remark into some kind of crusade where the only right and proper womens views are those that YOU propose.
I- sigh. Feminazi: Because a woman who doesn’t find sexual objectification cute is like INVADING POLAND. I completely see the parallels there.
I’m done fighting with a guy who can’t spell and can’t seem to construct an argument right. This is the last post I will ever make about this stupidity (sorry for the spam, Laura!)
I admit that I use the term feminazi but that is ONLY to differentiate between a bona fide feminist and someone who has perverted the whole point of the activism.
To me, feminism is essentially equalism. I am no less than any man, but no more either. It means equal pay, equal rights, etc. It doesn’t mean equal right to objectify and look down upon.
Feminaziism is the belief that women are superior to men. It’s a retaliation to the male domination that women have submitted to for years, and rather than activism, it is reactivism. I find this is a perverted version of what original feminism was about.
As for objectification of people, I think it runs a strange course on the internet and television. On the one hand, celebrities are almost non-human beings. It becomes okay somehow to objectify them because we don’t run into them in our everyday life, because they are viewed as something that is immune to the everyday life struggles and interests that we “peons” experience. I don’t say it’s right but it does seem to be in its own category. If you were to see these same people in their regular lives, talking about regular people, I would doubt their inclination to objectify.
I guess what I’m saying is that people will objectify others whether we like it or not; you can speak up and say that you think it’s wrong and disrespectful but not everyone sees it the same way. It’s unfortunate, to be honest, that not everyone sees objectification of a person as harmful. We can’t force them to think otherwise and as I think was demonstrated amply in that exchange, people take a simple disagreement and can’t discuss rationally. They have to argue, defame and put-down.
Anyway, I still don’t see what’s so goddamn hard about your username. e. s. -. Three keystrokes. Nobody has trouble with mine and it’s 14 letters long!