I was chilling with some girl friends of my mine and we were watching music videos. And yes I still watch music videos, in fact for your information I am the same age as MTV, so that makes it perfectly reasonable that I would enjoy the occasional video (not that they play music videos anymore, but that is a separate issue) So were watching them and my friend says to me “YOU will like this video, all the men are being objectified”
This struck me as odd; I’m not sure where I got the reputation that I would enjoy seeing men objectified. But somewhere along the line I had, and that was not a great feeling.
Yes I do consider myself a feminist. Yes I do see the flaws in the constant barrage of unfair, subservient or down right sexist images we get of women on a daily basis. I think that it is sad that just because you align yourself with these causes, that you are then thought to be a man hater, or that you enjoy seeing men put in the same compromising position that women for years have been unjustly put in.
Just swinging the pendulum in the opposite direction is not the answer. I understand that sometimes it is interesting to see things in ways we have not seen them before. Turn in on its head so that we can be educated. That’s cool, and useful.
But honestly I really don’t think objectifying any human is something to be excited about. It really doesn’t help any movement for equality.
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