NSFW objectification

casimendocina · 06-19-2011, 11:18 AM

This is where this thread crosses over into the political correctness thread. Gravdigr's post uses a number of words to describe people which in a PC environment would be rephrased (i.e. big tits-well endowed, fat-well built etc...).

This made me think of an afternoon years ago when I'd swapped classrooms with another staff member in the uni who I didn't know and was unlikely to set eyes on again (and haven't). As said staff member's students went up the stairs, I said to them (being quite sure that the students who were late would either not bother to read the note I had left on the board or not compute if they did) if you see any Asian students looking lost, send them down here. The Caucasian students going up the stairs responded "that's racist". To me it was a statement of fact, was the easiest way of identifying the students in question and had no ill connotations attached so their response struck me as highlighting an intention that wasn't there so after writing out this spiel, my question would be: 1). at what point does the objectification start and 2) at what stage does it become a problem?

06-19-2011, 11:18 AM	#21
casimendocina Professor Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,622	This is where this thread crosses over into the political correctness thread. Gravdigr's post uses a number of words to describe people which in a PC environment would be rephrased (i.e. big tits-well endowed, fat-well built etc...). This made me think of an afternoon years ago when I'd swapped classrooms with another staff member in the uni who I didn't know and was unlikely to set eyes on again (and haven't). As said staff member's students went up the stairs, I said to them (being quite sure that the students who were late would either not bother to read the note I had left on the board or not compute if they did) if you see any Asian students looking lost, send them down here. The Caucasian students going up the stairs responded "that's racist". To me it was a statement of fact, was the easiest way of identifying the students in question and had no ill connotations attached so their response struck me as highlighting an intention that wasn't there so after writing out this spiel, my question would be: 1). at what point does the objectification start and 2) at what stage does it become a problem?

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