Objectifying women

[Scented Nectar]

But... if I see a smokin' hot woman walking down the street in a halter top and tight little jean shorts... and I watch her the entire time with "Mmmmm..." running through my head... am I objectifying her? If so, isn't that why she dressed that way in the first place? Either way, am I wrong for seeing her as an object of sexual desire? Because I really can't help that. I'm pretty entrenched in my rampant heterosexuality.

There is nothing wrong with that at all. And women do the same to men (they're usually not wearing halter tops though!). Nothing wrong with that at all. The feminist argument against objectification is only valid in my opinion in places where women are still owned as breeder/sex objects.

I should probably admit here in this thread, that during the 80's I got caught up in the reverse-sexist cult of overly radical feminism. Got pulled into the political stuff by wanting some same-sex sex and hanging around a crowd who were both lesbian and political. Since the day I left, which was pretty much when I realized that my sexual preference was swinging bigtime in favour of playing with penises again, I had to look at the whole set of dogma I had swallowed along with the good anti-sexism messages. That included the assumption that no woman should ever want to do anything that had ever been forced on any woman ever. I had to rethink what I thought of the way everyone looked down on women who do things like, choose to live as homemakers by choice, and women who choose to be part of things like the sex industry (even mild beauty pageants), and women who just plain desire to having sex with men at all, especially the last one since what makes a person horny is not a choice. Sexual objectification was seen as always bad even when done by both genders. Also, there was the assumption that no men were evolving in their attitudes whereas there are quite a few. More and more every year it seems. Just like with most other isms in the world.