What makes men consider women as objects and sexual commodities instead of human beings? Why are so many women ok with that?

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  • Humans are simple creature and anything sexual triggers our most primal instincts and we react really strong, and companies use it to make money.

    And because they want, porn stars make more money per scene than i and the avarage joe and jane makes in an entire months.

    Belle Delphine made a million bucks from selling her supposed bath water, just on the sole idea of her laying naked in said water.

    And its not just women being sexualised for men, its also men being sexualised for women, and women being sexualised for other women, and men sexualised for other men...

    SEX SELLS.

    An commercial for a razor and shaving cream for men shows a half naked men with six pack, and a commercial for a razor and shaving cream for women shows a half naked women, even a commercial for tampons shows half naked women, ...

    And video games, ... Anita Sarkisian once made a 150% pure feminists video game character because the "normal" video game characters are way to sexual... and her video game heroine looked just the same as any other regular video game heroine.
    So its not men sexualising women, its (also) women sexualising other women or sexualising themselves.

    • I'd be interested to see what this video game looks like then.

  • I personally don't, but I'm guessing it's the hook up culture.

    • Hook up culture or just sexist culture?

    • A bit of both

    • To me, both are related. Hook up culture was born from sexual liberation tainted with misogyny.

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  • This is historical/cultural. Many (but not all) cultures are patriarchal (man is the head of household), and view female's lack of physical strength in comparison to a male's as a reason why males/men should have dominance over his female counterpart. I do think it is more exaggerated with social media/reality TV/sex commodification.
    I'm of the opinion that it is also genetic (I have no idea if this is factual) based off my understanding of the earliest humans.

    Also, many of the things you listed above can be objectifying to women but aren't exclusively meant to be that way.

    Woman do not have access to the same systems of power men have, so I try to understand some of the behavior (regardless of my opinion) as women within a system trying to exercise their own power.

    • Thanks for this well developed and interesting answer.

  • I am not okay with it... express yourself is different thing... she can be nude if she want to... but you can't objectify her.. in songs, movies. no woman like to do prostitution, or doing porn.. it's just do or die type situations for her mostly

    • I agree. Thanks for this answer.

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  • Is all of that, rejecting traditional and godly standards and values, and the women that wants to projected because they gain power off of it. Just thank God that are better guys out there that do not adhere to those things of the world. They truly value women and they don't see women as objects or sexual objects period. We are human beings that deserve love and respect just as much as they do.

    • God bless you. You give me hope.

    • I'm not religious but I do believe people lack some serious sense of morality, values and dignity these days.

    • Which come from religion. We seem to think we can have the morals without the beliefs. That already failed in the 17th century.

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  • As far as I know women participate in porn just as much as men (in its production, since it's mostly women and men or women with women or whatever, at least that's what straight men look at). You can't blame men when it's women who willingly put themselves out there. Don't at me with the "they have no choice". If you wanna attack someone attack the right people and don't generalize.

    • Just do some research before saying some serious BS.

    • Sure, bunch of bullshit. I already know the porn industry is a very toxic one, so no need to tell me to research that. But also a lot of women enter that industry for the money and the fame. So how is that men's fault? Also what about all the instagram "influencers"? Are they also oppressed by men and have no other choice? No. They call it woman empowerment. Because that's the trend now, if you don't show ass you're not relevant. And that's not men's fault either. I'm not saying men aren't at fault at all, but I'm also not blaming all men, neither am I blaming all women, there is decency and indecency in both genders. What annoys me in your question is the generalization that men look that way on women, like we are not humans, when that's not the truth a lot of the time. We are talking about a certain group of men and not the entire gender. What about feminism? Does it really do any justice to men? So called feminists nowadays are treating men like shit, and spreading hatred left and right for no reason. Why aren't you addressing that as well? Why do you fail to see men being treated like walking banks? And all the women ready to have a sugar daddy? If someone is willingly letting themselves be viewed as sexual objects how is that on men?

    • Do you really believe women aren't brainwashed into pornifying themselves? How are the number 1 porn consumers? Men.

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  • Biology of men + Behaviour of women.

    Okay in what way? Okay generally because "What can you (humanity in general) do?".

  • Look back in time for the answer to this one. Thae farther back you look the more you will see that people were just objects to the male gender even other males. I guess its just kind of hardwired

    • Slavery exists for centuries and even more. Have we abolished it? Absolutely. Are stupid stuff mean to stay or to be ereased?

    • Was to say. Will just have to wait ad see

  • The woman sets the tone of how I view her. If she is a down to earth type, natural, that easily forms a friendship bond and loves sex as a nature lover; she isn’t any object to me by any stretch of the imagination. However, if she is the painted up, Botox, fake boobs, tattoos, chip-on-the-shoulder and all kinds of materialist bullshit, attention seeker, she easily becomes an object to me to which I have no attraction anyways.

    • You're full of stupid prejudices then.

    • So obviously, you took offense to my objectifying the plastic women. Therefore, you must be highly objectified irl and resent it by this reply and question. Who really has the prejudices and probable bias? Mine is simply a preference and how it relates to a partner rather than a passing plastic woman object. I guess I nailed it.

    • You just don't understand anything.


  • Well I'm a sub 100% so I guess I just kinda like it but I guess we're all different

  • Well the women who do the type of work in which they're objectified are choosing to do it. So they must not hate it too much

    • Oh really? You're really naive lol.

    • Yes that must be it

  • Men do all of these things to wtf

  • Porn does

    • Agree 100% Porn is a big issue for women's dignity.

  • I think it’s about eroticism, but it gets taken to an extreme level that’s often seen in different ways by different people

    • Men tend to obnectify people they find attractive. Homosexual men objectify men, heterosexual men objectify women.

    • I see men objectified by women too. A lot actually. I also see women objectified by other women. I also see men treat women like goddesses. It’s not a gendered issue

    • Unfortunately, it is. You should look better

  • A lot of it is just the media influence of women being presented as these statuesque presentations of beauty. In terms of real women that we meet in day-to-day life, the problem is that so few men and women actually connect with each other. It's easy to see someone as an object if you don't talk with them. It's even easier to see someone as an object if you try talking to them and they have nothing interesting to say.

  • Im going to try to take a stab at this.. One.. I have never personally seen women as sex objects, save for a very short time in my early 20's when all i cared about was sticking my dick in something (sorry for being crude).. I think the issue is at the societal level.. Women are seen as sex objects for reproduction, that is our single strongest primal urge at the core.. To replicate and have children. On the other side of that token. For a very long time, and even currently, Men are seen as success objects, We are not judged on our sex, we are judged on how much we can provide and how much money we can make.. Before we were a money society, it was how much resources we could provide.. I have problems with both of these premises.. The success object part, because i can't stand gold digger/sugar daddy culture, and the sex object part, because i as a man dont want a woman that is one dimensional, and reducing a woman to being a sex object makes her just that.. One dimensional. I think of my wife in that situation... She has never been just a sex object to me.. Sure i love her, and i absolutely love having sex with her.. But what attracted me to her the most, was when i was in the hospital for infected wisdom teeth, They almost killed me by the way, she was the only one that cared enough to visit me.. I felt like if she cared for me like that, she is definitely someone i want in my life. that was almost 8 years ago..

    Also i dont believe most men see women as just sex objects, and i dont believe most women see men as success objects, just the ones that are blatantly gold diggers or play boys..

    • Think again then

    • just because you have had a bad or bitter experience doesn't give you the right to label every single one of us.. I dont need to think again.. you need to drop your preconceptions about all men.

  • Why do women consider men as walking ATMs instead of human beings? Why do women look at men as HUMAN "DOINGS" instead of human beings?

    • If anything, men are way more allowed to be appreciated for their personality skills and competences than women. Even if being seen as an achiever may be too little, it's stil' better than being seen as an object.

    • Most men don't treat women like objects, only the top alpha male assholes like me treat them like sex toys (I totally admit I'm a player, but don't hate me, hate the game). The beta males will walk through hell and back for one stupid Heaux and give up his whole life for her. But face it, that's not what you women want. B! tches have even admitted to me over and over that my elusive bad boy personality is much more of a turn-on than the betas who lick their Azz. I already know it's true for you too, just by this question. This was aimed at shaming alphas like me into submission, you already know the Beta males (over 90% of men in the world) already treat women with respect, but those aren't the ones you want or the ones who get your pannties wet. I know I'm right! Just waitin' for you to confess!

    • Stop you nonsense

  • (eyeroll)

    ... Why do males want sex so much more than you? Because we want sex so much more than you, that's why. Ask God, not us. We didn't make the rules. Why do girls keep asking this insipid question? Wanting sex is not automatically equatable with being an asshole or an abuser. Stop mistakenly connecting the two.

    • Just learn to read the question before answering. I've never wanted to understand why men want more sex than women.

    • ... I did read the question. And that's why I answered the way I did.

  • Lol at certain age everything is a sexual comoditty you know bc harmonies discovering bodies and other things it's not like women don't consider men as sexual comoditty they do but most men don't mind it now that's the difference there are cougars there are women in open relationships mostly these things are mutual no need to bring in things like porn prostitution without them it would be same bc we have animal sexual instincts we are primal no different it's just that we can control things to certain extent women are also sexually deviant than man lol its just that people close eyes to it

  • I think that men and women who like sex and enjoy it, they don't consider women (and men) as objects and sexual commodities. I think exactly the opposite: humans (men or women) who like sex, are here, to offer and receive, one of life's best pleasures. And what's more kind than this?

    • They do that for money. Stop kidding yourself.

    • I do not agree, but respect your different view.

    • You don't have any experience with men so how could you know lol?

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  • Women get use out of their body and let a man do it to them willingly. If it is unwilling and forced a women is raped and it is wrong.
    So any women who sleep around having a great time etc are fine with the dilemma

    • This doesn't make any sense lol.

    • Why not? They do it consentually. They get money and pleasure out of being objectified

  • Everything comes down to your value system. These people are either ignorant of theirs or don't have one. Porn has no effect on the righteous. Porn is the innocence of the crimes you hold against them, the parents allowing their children to watch porn, they have a lot to answer for.

    • Give me a break. Porn is systematic exploitation for money.

    • I don't watch porn, what are you talking about?

    • Have I said that?

  • Porn has always been with us. But it's women who have the key to this. But they are trying to assert themselves. But porn is not part of it...

    • Quite the contrary especially in a capitalist society.

    • But women do well in this society. The freedom and ease of movement they have won. 50years ago they would not have. I wish they had more of a voice but they are getting there..

    • Do well... Slightly better than before but we're far from equality.

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  • I want to know why there are so many women are ok with that myself.

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