Comments on: The Fishbowl Effect of Sexual Objectification

By: Dollface

Dollface — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:16:33 +0000

@ Justin — Thanks for commenting…this is actually one my favorite posts that I wrote in the early days of this blog, so I’m glad people still stumble across it.

I love what you said “Where real gentlemen are found, they don’t need neon signs to prove it”.

Thanks for sharing the beautiful picture of a woman with freckles. Freckles rule!

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:07:03 +0000

I know this is an old post, but I felt like commenting anyway.

I think it’s pathetic that places dedicated to sexual indulgence at the expense of objectified women always use words like “Gentleman” and “Adult.” It’s an attempt to make the patronage feel respectable while they’re acting like animals. Where real gentlemen are found, they don’t need neon signs to prove it.

Let me also comment that some of us men are also fed up with the over-sexualized advertising of everything. Frankly, the female form is such a lovely image to look at it that we men have trouble remembering that the image is also a human being with thoughts and feelings. The constant bombardment of that image–with little clothing, and no indication of real personality or humanity–it makes it that much more difficult for us to respect women the way we know we should.

I totally agree with your thoughts on the standards of beauty. The more women who reject them and become comfortable with their own uniqueness, the better. Not everybody has to be an airbrushed fantasy twig. In conclusion, here’s an example.

http://benoitpaille.deviantart.com/art/La-realite-est-lente-130489334

freckles are wonderful.

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By: Dollface

Dollface — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:47:43 +0000

ambika — I know what you mean. Thanks for the thoughtful comment. I mean we all know sex sells, but I feel that notion is getting out of hand.

YL — Thanks for the comment! I agree completely. The worst part is that even when I’m bundled up in my most marshmallow-resembling winter jacket, I still get men oogling me & saying inappropriate comments to me in public.

By: YL

YL — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:14:23 +0000

This reminds me of the time when I was at the gym and genuinely confused (and slightly mortified) to why they were showing soft-porn on the tv screens in the afternoon, only to realise that it was actually a music-video, surprisingly difficult to tell the difference when you can’t hear the sound!

I do not wish to generalise, but at least in the town where I’m spending the summer, MacKinnon is right. Although it is nice to feel desired, being approached/cat-called/beeped at whilst walking down the street is not the type of flattery that I seek. It is sad at times when one must choose one’s outfit not as an expression of self or even for functionality, but to be as unassuming as possible so to be a deterent for strangers.

By: ambika

ambika — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:44:01 +0000

I think this is a big chunk of the reason that I dislike TV. Not only do I dislike advertising, but I hate the way the majority of it falls into the same old trope of selling things with sex (something that was commented on by Time or Life [can't remember] magazine in the 1920s.) It’s the same reason that as much as I love music, I dislike most music video channels (even the few that only show music videos.) It’s all naked/gorgeous/wispy women, all the time and I’d rather not feel bad about myself and rather not be exposed to that constant sexualization.