Quote:
Originally Posted by toranokaze
I was watching Bones the other day and during one ep the following was said:
"...I objectify myself every time I put on lipstick."
Question posed:
Is all sexualization objectification?
OR
Can one exist as a sexual being and not objectify?
Does there exist other forms of objectifcation that desexualize a person.
If true are they equally wrong?
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The military tries to desexualize -- and to objectify the serving individual into the impersonal soldier. The disciplined hair, the uniform, these are just the outermost manifestations. This is not a D&S exercise, it is a psychological coping mechanism for performing one's difficult tasks while in that environment of humans being most dangerous.
What personalizes sexualization is friendship -- and its extreme form, love. We start from an objectifying viewpoint -- the excitement of perceiving a potential mate. "I wanna get some of
that." If we're nice people, we move on from there. If we for some reason are not fixing to move on from there -- we cruise folks. Come on -- nobody here has not done that.
The wrong or the right dwells in the doing, not the instinctual interest.