Being that objectifying women is part of men's nature....
I'm a guy, and when I have a woman objectifying me, I love it. I find it annoying if it's a desperate woman or a desperate gay man, but it's still flattering.
I'm sure I'll receive many detailed responses, but in the end, my real question is: Does objectification necessarily lead to better treatment than non-objectification?
2007-10-30 00:14:46 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
I goofed. I meant to ask at the end: Does objectification necessarily lead to worse treatment than non-objectification.
2007-10-30 00:20:58 · update #1
I think it mainly has to do with...
a. how your mother was treated/respected by your father
b. how your father treated women in general
c. how you were raised to treat women.
I think one can objectify another for the sheer sake of shallow admiration for good looks and still be an honorable, decent, kind acting, respectful person.....
I'm a woman, and I'm guilty of objectifying men, but I believe that ultimately it boils down to character, and that is usually something learned while growing up....
2007-10-30 14:53:31 · answer #1 · answered by reddevilbloodymary 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Male objectification is only a symptom of mistreatment of women. I don't believe there is a direct cause-effect analogy here. How many times have we, as men (especially in the company of men), oggled a woman. The guys might be having a drink and saying "Wow, she has a great a*ss...she could be my...." and so on. Yet that behaviour does not mean each man will mistreat a woman.
A man who regularly mistreats women has much deeper issues than just objectifying. As part of mistreatment, he probably objectifies them as another avenue to exact his revenge on the gender which has "done him wrong."
Plus, objectification is a relative term. One woman might see it as "boys being boys" vs. being outright offended and upset. A radical feminist who sees a man taking a second glance a nicely dressed, shapely woman would call him a b@stard. A realist feminist would just say he was enjoying the view (unless, of course, he was following and staring for a long period of time).
2007-10-30 13:09:55 · answer #2 · answered by Thundercat 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It may not cause men to directly treat women badly (as in physical abuse), but it does make women feel bad. And if someone's behavior makes you feel bad, isn't that described as being mistreated?
Be careful of the distinction between paying compliments and objectification, too. A compliment highlights a specific aspect of a person, while objectification limits a person's scope to the attribute being objectified. Do you see the difference?
2007-10-30 08:08:34 · answer #3 · answered by not yet 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Is she really objectifying you? She's flirting with you and treating you like a person, not like an object for her pleasure. But if objectification what you're into, far be it from anyone to stop you.
Objectification may lead someone else to feel flattered and wanted, but in the end, if they aren't being treated like a rational human being, it isn't worth it.
2007-10-30 09:01:59 · answer #4 · answered by Rio Madeira 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
of course it is mainly men who are objectified by women, we are just success objects, women mainly look for a rich man, they WANT the rich patriarch elite 1%. It is called hypergamy, marrying up.
Objectification of males. we are only good for service to fmales, tax machines and soldiers
2014-01-24 09:36:40 · answer #5 · answered by Martin 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The term "objectifying women" is an incendiary term used to shame men from appreciating beauty.
People that expect men to stop "objectifying women" have unrealistic expectations. Men love to look at an attractive woman or a woman with a nice body.
It's always been this way & it will always be this way.
That's all there is to it.
2007-10-30 07:36:55 · answer #6 · answered by hopscotch 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If men were not interested in women for sex at all, and while there are there will always be some woman complaining about 'objectification', women would be so horribly scorned and oppressed that the Taliban's treatment of women would look like a dream come true. They may not even survive.
2007-10-30 07:20:19 · answer #7 · answered by Rio Madeira 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Rio is exactly right. There would be very few new children born absent the male's arousal at the sight of a beautiful woman.
2007-10-30 08:59:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No not always; sometimes misfortunate things happen, yet on the whole the answer is no. In the end it always leads to better and preferred treatment.
2007-10-30 07:51:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I love to look at attractive looking women, but, does that mean I'm objectifying her? Nope..
2007-10-30 07:42:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋