Teh One Who Knocks
02-12-2018, 12:13 PM
Rebecca Reid for Metro.co.uk
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As a rampant feminist kill joy, you might think that I’d be in favour of objectifying men.
After all, it’s another step in our ultimate quest to subjugate men, force them to live as our breeding slaves and create an idllyic female only society.
Actually, I, like lots of feminists find the objectification of men extremely troubling.
Women are objectified far more than men are. Men are often boosted by their looks whereas being sexually attractive can impede a woman’s professional and even personal relationships.
But, even with those imbalances taken into consideration, the objectification of men is unacceptable.
The winter Olympics is currently taking place in South Korea, and with the Olympics traditionally comes lots of photographs of fit, attractive people’s bodies.
In the summer Olympics it’s the volleyball players, in their hot pants, who bear the brunt of it. But, for a change, it seems to be the men who are bearing the brunt of the objectification this time.
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Perhaps it’s the tightness of their sporting outfits around the crotch area, or maybe it’s because the #MeToo movement has made slavering over women’s bodies unfashionable, but for whatever reason, tweets like this one seem to be becoming more and more de rigueur
The reason why talking about someone’s ‘bulge’ is unacceptable are manifold. Firstly, it’s weird. It’s very weird to speculate about someone’s genitals for funsies. Honestly. However you cut it, it’s odd.
It’s disrespectful, too. These people have worked super hard. And while I might not understand the concept of devoting your life to tobogganing or that thing with the ice and the brush, they did. Late nights, early mornings, no teenage parties – that’s worthy of some respect. So eyes on the prize, not the crotches.
There are people – strippers, sex workers, adult entertainers, who are delighted to be objectified, for whom it forms an entire career.
But we’re all adults here, and we’re all intelligent enough to be able to tell the difference between someone who is courting objectification and someone who is trying to play a sport or act in a film or even just cross the road without being sexualised.
This kind of rampant sexualisation does women a massive disservice. Women, quite rightly, have asked not to be treated like sex objects unless that’s their actual job. Sports women particularly have had to endure judgement and invasive photography whenever they’ve worn a crop top to the racing track.
When we do it to men, we level the playing field. But it’s a playing field full of rocks and barbed wire and dog s**t. It’s not a playing field that anyone wants to be in.
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Treating men like sex objects, reducing people who are just trying to do their jobs to their genitals, opens the door for it to also happen to women. When women complain about having their boobs or arses focused on instead of their words or characters, the response will be ‘but look, it happens to men too’.
It shouldn’t happen to men. It shouldn’t happen to anyone. The fact that it is also happening (though on a smaller scale) to men does not make it better, fairer or more acceptable when women are objectified.
Wouldn’t it be better that alongside not taking pictures of Brazilian volleyball player’s butt cheeks, we also don’t freeze frame on a bobsleigher’s crotch?
Instead of equality of degradation, can’t we have equality of respect?
https://i.imgur.com/eTNEZD7.gif
As a rampant feminist kill joy, you might think that I’d be in favour of objectifying men.
After all, it’s another step in our ultimate quest to subjugate men, force them to live as our breeding slaves and create an idllyic female only society.
Actually, I, like lots of feminists find the objectification of men extremely troubling.
Women are objectified far more than men are. Men are often boosted by their looks whereas being sexually attractive can impede a woman’s professional and even personal relationships.
But, even with those imbalances taken into consideration, the objectification of men is unacceptable.
The winter Olympics is currently taking place in South Korea, and with the Olympics traditionally comes lots of photographs of fit, attractive people’s bodies.
In the summer Olympics it’s the volleyball players, in their hot pants, who bear the brunt of it. But, for a change, it seems to be the men who are bearing the brunt of the objectification this time.
962612177696780288
Perhaps it’s the tightness of their sporting outfits around the crotch area, or maybe it’s because the #MeToo movement has made slavering over women’s bodies unfashionable, but for whatever reason, tweets like this one seem to be becoming more and more de rigueur
The reason why talking about someone’s ‘bulge’ is unacceptable are manifold. Firstly, it’s weird. It’s very weird to speculate about someone’s genitals for funsies. Honestly. However you cut it, it’s odd.
It’s disrespectful, too. These people have worked super hard. And while I might not understand the concept of devoting your life to tobogganing or that thing with the ice and the brush, they did. Late nights, early mornings, no teenage parties – that’s worthy of some respect. So eyes on the prize, not the crotches.
There are people – strippers, sex workers, adult entertainers, who are delighted to be objectified, for whom it forms an entire career.
But we’re all adults here, and we’re all intelligent enough to be able to tell the difference between someone who is courting objectification and someone who is trying to play a sport or act in a film or even just cross the road without being sexualised.
This kind of rampant sexualisation does women a massive disservice. Women, quite rightly, have asked not to be treated like sex objects unless that’s their actual job. Sports women particularly have had to endure judgement and invasive photography whenever they’ve worn a crop top to the racing track.
When we do it to men, we level the playing field. But it’s a playing field full of rocks and barbed wire and dog s**t. It’s not a playing field that anyone wants to be in.
https://i.imgur.com/Pecudfk.png
Treating men like sex objects, reducing people who are just trying to do their jobs to their genitals, opens the door for it to also happen to women. When women complain about having their boobs or arses focused on instead of their words or characters, the response will be ‘but look, it happens to men too’.
It shouldn’t happen to men. It shouldn’t happen to anyone. The fact that it is also happening (though on a smaller scale) to men does not make it better, fairer or more acceptable when women are objectified.
Wouldn’t it be better that alongside not taking pictures of Brazilian volleyball player’s butt cheeks, we also don’t freeze frame on a bobsleigher’s crotch?
Instead of equality of degradation, can’t we have equality of respect?