Edralis
2d ago
I disagree that these principles are contradictory. They all express problems with a certain part of reality. It can be that women are not treated the same (or at least historically weren't) in certain areas where they should be, and yet it remains true that women are different from men and treating the sexes differently is better in other areas. It is also true that women (and men, too, of course) made choices in a restricted space of a certain unnecessarily gendered way of looking at the world, which it is good that we are overcoming or in many ways have already overcome; yet at the same time, both sexes should be seen as autonomous individuals. I don't see a contradiction, just a nuanced take.
"Objectification" is a broad term. Certain acts that we could label as "objectification" are benign or even desired, others less so. For example, a woman's body being appreciated by a desirable man, most commonly a partner, is an example of the former - note that this is almost always in a context of the two people knowing each other; so the objectification isn't really absolute. In the moment, the focus could be on the woman's body and sexual desirability; but overall this situation is only desired by the woman because it is in the context of being seen as an individual, not just a body. On the contrary, a set of female boobs plastered on a product, a gratuitous scene in a movie, or porn, are different in that they lack the underlying layer of intimacy of knowing a woman as a person, and appreciating her for more than just her body.
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