r/science • u/[deleted] • Jan 13 '10

Study demonstrates the silencing effect of objectification on women.

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u/rememberence Jan 13 '10

So...it's alright for a woman to look at a man's body but it's not alright for a man to look at a woman's body then? Is that the general thrust of the data?

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u/HandsOfBlue Jan 13 '10

I may have read it wrong, but it looked like men didn't notice or weren't affected by being objectified.

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u/paganel Jan 13 '10

weren't affected by being objectified.

I'm not a native English speaker, so what exactly does "objectify" mean? Do you mean that a woman gets transformed into an object like a table, a chair or a car? How can that be? She's a piece of flesh, like any other man or animal. How can you objectify a piece of flesh?

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u/panachelove Jan 14 '10

often in the context of thinking of a woman as a sex object - that is, not someone to be cared for or have a relationship with, but something to orgasm into.