(May 20, 2010 at 5:38 pm)Meatball Wrote: Something being voluntary(ie Playboy models, strippers) doesn't neccessarily make it OK.
A lot of women voluntarily objectify themselves. A lot of people also voluntarily kill other people for money or fun. Fred Phelps voluntarily protests the funerals of dead soldiers.
These people might be posing in Playboy and they might feel great about it, but that doesn't mean it has a positve effect of the rest of the world's view of women. I'm not neccessarily arguing one way or the other, just throwing it out there.
I certainly agree that being voluntary doesn't make something okay. That's obvious. And perhaps women that objectify themselves do nothing positive for the world's view of women... but I don't think their right to objectify themselves should be taken from them. Perhaps that's because I am a heterosexual man that enjoys looking at scantily clad women, or perhaps it's because I think people should be allowed to do anything they wish to their own image. Both, I think.