> These typical ads portrait women as play-things to be gawked at rather than someone's daughter, wife and another human being.
Now here's an objectification - why a woman needs to be someone's wife or daughter? Men on similar pictures are usually also portrayed as models, not husbands or sons. Isn't that sexist? Isn't that misandry?
Honestly, I find most of those gender-related discussions nonsense; it's like autoimmune disease - instead of fighting only diseases, the immune system starts attacking everything around it. You just can't say anything at all about women without being labeled misogynist.
I read an interesting essay on the topic today: http://squid314.livejournal.com/329561.html. It's not only (or even mostly) about gender issues, but the key quote from the ending:
"My view on feminism isn't really driven by my view on gender relations or women or men or society. It's driven by my view on applause lights, on inability to urge restraint, on death spirals, on anti-charity, on zero-threshold medical testing, on superweapons, and most of all on epistemic hygiene. I don't care how righteous your cause is, you don't get a superweapon so powerful it can pre-emptively vaporize any possible counterargument including the one asking you to please turn off your superweapon and listen for just a second. No one should be able to do that."
Now here's an objectification - why a woman needs to be someone's wife or daughter? Men on similar pictures are usually also portrayed as models, not husbands or sons. Isn't that sexist? Isn't that misandry?
Honestly, I find most of those gender-related discussions nonsense; it's like autoimmune disease - instead of fighting only diseases, the immune system starts attacking everything around it. You just can't say anything at all about women without being labeled misogynist.
I read an interesting essay on the topic today: http://squid314.livejournal.com/329561.html. It's not only (or even mostly) about gender issues, but the key quote from the ending:
"My view on feminism isn't really driven by my view on gender relations or women or men or society. It's driven by my view on applause lights, on inability to urge restraint, on death spirals, on anti-charity, on zero-threshold medical testing, on superweapons, and most of all on epistemic hygiene. I don't care how righteous your cause is, you don't get a superweapon so powerful it can pre-emptively vaporize any possible counterargument including the one asking you to please turn off your superweapon and listen for just a second. No one should be able to do that."