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In reply to the discussion: DU should be collectively ashamed that people here deny that objectification of women is a problem. [View all]ElboRuum
(4,717 posts)Now correlate that statistic to "objectification". Can't do it, can you? Probably because objectification is a non-thing.
Is the issue sexual assault? Yes. Is it "objectification"? Not so much. Answer me this question. If objectification was such a trigger for this sort of behavior, why has the incidence gone down? I mean, the people who put stock in this idea of objectification predicted a sharp spike upwards when the internet and the ubiquity of the nekkidness within showed up, this just hasn't materialized.
The jury has deliberated. Pictures of scantily clad/nekkid humans do not make people go do bad things.
So, if we really care about real people, very likely people that you and I care about, can we stop this distractive nonsense about bikini models on a progressive board because, not only is it pointless and solves no problem except to satisfy the social and political aesthetic of a very small group of people, it is also an affront to progressives who feel they don't need someone to tell them what is expected from them insofar as shame.