RE: Objectifying women
July 11, 2010 at 6:51 pm
(This post was last modified: July 11, 2010 at 6:54 pm by Violet.)
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Statement observed.
Analyzing statement...
'There is nothing women can do to avoid being raped.'
Comparing to similar statement...
'There is nothing soldiers can do to avoid being killed.'
Error
Clothes matter... to soldiers their apparel can be life and death. To arctic dwellers as well is clothing of utmost importance (when it comes to survival). The effect of clothing upon a situation can vary from being of minimal impact to dwarfing all. As it turns out, there is a very successful market for making people appear sexually appealing to others via clothing... and wearing such clothes can at the least be expected to typically excite more sexual attraction towards the wearer than would be common for them without. As such... it is clear that clothing has some effect upon wether a person appears sexually attractive... and it is not a very large jump from there to suggest that in at least some cases: clothing choice can at times be expected to further excite a person about to rape another (and indeed... perhaps is sometimes among the core causes of why the rape took place at all, if you will note the bold in the above quote).
Indeed... not to suggest that other animals do not also objectify things, of course
In This Mind Wrote:There is nothing women can do to avoid being raped. The problem isn't that women wear sexy clothes, it's that some men think of women as objects and view the sexy clothes as permission to touch the objects.
Statement observed.
Analyzing statement...
'There is nothing women can do to avoid being raped.'
Comparing to similar statement...
'There is nothing soldiers can do to avoid being killed.'
Error
Clothes matter... to soldiers their apparel can be life and death. To arctic dwellers as well is clothing of utmost importance (when it comes to survival). The effect of clothing upon a situation can vary from being of minimal impact to dwarfing all. As it turns out, there is a very successful market for making people appear sexually appealing to others via clothing... and wearing such clothes can at the least be expected to typically excite more sexual attraction towards the wearer than would be common for them without. As such... it is clear that clothing has some effect upon wether a person appears sexually attractive... and it is not a very large jump from there to suggest that in at least some cases: clothing choice can at times be expected to further excite a person about to rape another (and indeed... perhaps is sometimes among the core causes of why the rape took place at all, if you will note the bold in the above quote).
(July 8, 2010 at 7:13 pm)Godhead Wrote: I don't see anything at all wrong with objectifying women, or anyone. We're animals. But because we're human, we're capable of seeing each other as sex objects and as anything else.
Indeed... not to suggest that other animals do not also objectify things, of course
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day