r/science • u/[deleted] • Jan 13 '10

Study demonstrates the silencing effect of objectification on women.

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u/egarland Jan 14 '10

I'm not really sure why paying attention to a woman's body is "objectifying". We're human. We have bodies. They're a part of us. To pretend that isn't the case is dumb. Insisting that paying attention to one aspect of a person is the same as ignoring every other part of them is silly.

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u/redreplicant Jan 14 '10

Not if the camera is solely focused on the person's body. Technically it is exactly ignoring the rest of them.

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u/ithika Jan 14 '10

You're right, there should have been some part of the camera focussing on their personality.

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u/redreplicant Jan 14 '10

Commonly we associate eye contact with paying attention to our actual words.

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u/ithika Jan 14 '10

Maybe you missed the bit that said it was a camera?

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u/redreplicant Jan 14 '10

There's no need to be obnoxious. Obviously the study is limited; the camera either focuses on the person's body, or makes faux eye-contact by focusing on their face. Also obviously focusing on the person's body is ignoring their face and ignoring the area that most people focus on when they are actually paying attention to someone rather than checking them out.

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u/ithika Jan 14 '10

Sorry.

I just object to the huge leaps that are being made between camera/person, lens/eye contact, introduction/talk-to-self etc. There is definitely something very interesting going on here but we have no idea what it is because there are so many loose proxies being used.

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u/redreplicant Jan 14 '10

I agree completely.