Marilyn Monroe (NewYork Sunday News) |
Objectification is a much maligned intention. Everybody
resists the idea of being objectified. Certainly feminism rails against the
objectification of women, though few feminists express equal concern about the
objectification of fetching looking studs. One of the objections is that by singling
out a women on the basis of her looks you’re turning her into a piece of meat,
something that's not better than a hamburger. Even models complain about being
enslaved to their good looks. They want to be loved for their minds as well as
their bodies. But isn’t this the point? Isn’t everything an object? Let’s say
we ignore the allure of beauty, what then do you do about a beautiful
sensibility? How do you handle the person with a horrible external appearance,
but a beautiful core? If you love the Hunchback of Notre Dame for his mind, are
you not still objectifying his inner self? Get out. Once a person fails to meet
up to the highest standards of physical beauty, you go down a list which
includes brainpower and sensibility. However what makes these other
qualities less examples of objectification say tits and ass or in the case of a
male, well developed pectorals and a bulging package downstairs? You’re locked
into your mind as well as your body and what the two have in common is that
there’s no way out.
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