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In reply to the discussion: For those women who think objectifying women as sex objects is OK [View all]Cofitachequi
(112 posts)...but it seems to me that the model is doing run of the mill, provocative, modeling poses, designed to titillate.
It may not have been her idea, but at the same time (as far as I know), she's a very well known and well compensated model. Taking a job and cashing the check were likely her choice.
You do set out an intetresting test for "objectification", however. If she could be replaced with, " a model with appropriately sized breasts ", and that model got the same money, and treatment, then you are correct. This is objectification. However, if this model's name and image bring a particularly high price, then there is something about her uniqueness that argues against the charge of objectification. If she is not readily replacable with some other pair of breasts, it is her unique qualities (qualities that she has worked to perfect) that has gotten her the job, and objectification is a harder charge to support.
Regardless, if this model makes a career choice, she is good at it, she is in demand and she is in control of her destiny- more power to her.