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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]The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)Straight white males have privilege here in the US (and we do) and that is relevant to problems how?
I keep seeing this whole issue being floated by similar people. Women are objects (no matter if a person looks at one and doesn't consider them an object, we are telling you what you feel) and the people with privilege we keep telling you about (white males) are the cause of this.
So folks run off working to tell white males they have privilege. Ok. Not sure what that is supposed to accomplish but I'll play along.
On a broad scale, Americans (and the west in general) have privilege. It is our lust for objects that turn many others in the world into slave labor, have their lands decimated for oil, precious metals, diamonds for rings and such, etc and so on.
We have objectified everything and using our privilege made it bad for many others in the world. Men, women, all races and genders here.
And the big fight of the week is over whether or not we should have seen three women getting paid well on a magazine cover.
So yeah - plenty of us have privilege and objectify.