We’re taught not to view bodies as objects. What happens when we do?
Over and over we hear that we shouldn’t objectify the human body. We shouldn’t look at it as an object to be possessed, sold, stared at, traded, trafficked. People who do these things are scolded, shamed, villified, and if they cross the line into acting criminally, hopefully they are caught and stopped.
At the same time, we are told to care for it, keep it clean and well-fed, fix it when it breaks, maintain it so it doesn’t, not introduce anything harmful, and what qualifies under these standards varies greatly based on culture, geography, socioeconomic status, and privilege.
What, then, if we break the worth of a body down to a common unit, as we would a commodity?
There’s really no value we can place on a self. But how does it change how we talk about people if we change them to dollars and cents?
Infographic courtesy of buddyloans.com.
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