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I agree with you 100%. What role do I, as a man, play in this discussion? I want to criticize this practice, but I also don't have a place in telling a woman wh
by intopieces 11y ago
I agree with you 100%. What role do I, as a man, play in this discussion? I want to criticize this practice, but I also don't have a place in telling a woman what she should or should not do.
- chris_wot 11y agoI don't really see a problem with expressing the view to a woman that another human being is more than just an object to be desired. Note that I'm not saying desire is bad in itself, but the issue is when you reduce someone by objectifying them for your own sexual gratification and ignore their personhood then that is the point at which a person mistreats the other person. I'm not immune, incidentally. I have to remember this every time I see an American Apparel advertisement. I speak out against AA exploitation because those ads debase sexuality by triggering in the viewer the urge for selfish sexual gratification. It can only do this because the viewer allows it to be so. The viewer is ultimately responsible for their own actions, but the advertiser is responsible for deliberately attempting to manipulate the viewer with their images. In my view, this exploits the viewer as well as the one being objectified. It's insidious, and whilst AA couched their advertisement in terms of not exploiting their workers, they used sexual objectification for one purpose only: to sell their clothes and make a profit.