Women's clothes?

[Catholic_Lady]

Perhaps women shouldn't be "surprised" when that happens, but that still doesn't give men an excuse to objectify a woman. Men are not dogs and still have the ability to look away or to refrain from seeing a fellow human being as an object.

Actually, I think there's a hidden double-standard here.  When a woman dresses provocatively, I think she knows it.  And if the RIGHT PERSON notices, she'll be happy as hell.  What she doesn't like is when someone she doesn't want to attract is attracted-- that is annoying for her.  And that is a double standard, because she's judging some men as not being sexy/attractive/rich/whatever enough to deserve the show that she's putting on.  In making herself attractive and enforcing standards, she's not only objectifying herself, but the men who she might implicity reject.

Do you think if Tom Cruise came up and stared at a woman's chest and said, "Mhhh hmmm, you are so beautiful" that she'd shout "Fuck you, Tom Cruise!  Stop fucking objectifying me!"

I don't think so.  That treatment is reserved for sub-standard mouth breathers like me and the other 90% of real human males.

I'm sure it depends on the woman. Perhaps some "know it" and some don't. Either way, I think it's wrong to assume the worst.

With that being said, I don't see anything wrong with a woman feeling annoyed at being ogled at by men she is not attracted to. That's not objectifying, that's just having a preference and trying to attract people you yourself are attracted to. And when you attract the wrong kind of people, it's frustrating. I don't see how that is "objectifying". 

Correct me if I'm wrong but it sounds like you're just kind of bitter.