Can men be objectified? Of Course Not! What a Silly Question! There is just NO Evidence to show any such possible behaviour exists – or that ladies are such lascivious, lecherous and out of control beasts – in the same way as men! The following Links have nothing to do with the subject – and simply prove how Objectification of men is a Myth – and ranks with the Abominable Snowman, Sasquatch, the acting skills of Jennifer Love Hewitt and the Female Orgasm. http://www.chippendales.com – still at it after 32 years! (Founded 1979) P^) NO Objection or Objectification there! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080365/… Read more »
^ This. I still don’t understand how people can say that the forced marriage of a woman is a crime against humanity and yet ignore the millions of men drafted into mandatory military service. No matter how you look at it, it seems like the military service is just as damaging.
Exactly. Male disposability is built into our culture, so much so that it’s not even noticed or remarked upon.
“Was it a disaster?”
“Well, that depends; were any women or children killed?”
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Steve
11 years ago
Just two cents from a psychologists who researchs objectification: There is good evidence that men and women are both sexually objectified, but there is an important difference in magnitude. Women tend to be objectified more than men, and women (yes, women) tend to objectify more than men. How is it that women objectify more than men? Well, both sexes sexually objectify each other – with men holding a slight edge over women. However, heterosexual women objectify other women, but hetereosexual men show a significantly reduced tendency to sexually objectify other men. So, by virtue of sexually objectifying both men and… Read more »
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Geeky Gentleman
11 years ago
Men can and are objectified like women are (both sexually and culturally). It just isn’t discussed as much in male culture due to male social and gender norms. Just like you can see the objectification of women in male oriented media (i.e. action movies, porn, etc…), you can also see this same kind of thing in female oriented media (dramas, romance novels, etc…). The main difference between how men and women objectify is that men objectify primarily on a visual basis, and women objectify primarily on an emotional basis. I am fairly omnivorous when comes to my consumption of media… Read more »
Geeky Gentleman, yes to a lot of what you say however I would contest the’ men being visual, women being emotional’ in what they ‘objectify’ (or what I like to call admire). Adultery, sex, fantasies or reading sexy novels is quite different from just having a good old perve. In this instance women can be as ‘visual’ as men. We are equally capable of looking at handsome men (or whomsoever we may consider attractive) on a purely visual basis without emotions coming into it. When i look at someone without trying to take it further I am looking because they… Read more »
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Random_Stranger
11 years ago
Perhaps we need clarification on the meaning of objectification, there appears to be an assumption that that objectification is only sexual or physical, or perhaps those are the only forms that matter.
If we consider objectification means to simply reduce a person to their potential transient utility to the beholder, then hell yeah, men are objectified: Business man, garbage man, police man, fire man, mail man, chair man, congress man, good guy, bad guy, soldier, judge, prisoner, doctor, welder, hero, villain, monster, ect. ect.
How does it differ from when women are? Only in terms of how it is perceived for example by feminists many of whom don’t believe men can be objectified.
Men get objectified for looking like they’re strong. It’s still a reduction of the man to a culturally valued, impersonal attribute. It’s nice to have my girlfriend admire my muscles, and to get admiring looks, but I know they don’t see me when they’re doing this. I’ve gotten objectified for being sexy, too, and it’s much more threatening. Being objectified, even for being strong, is okay in small doses, but to be bombarded with that kind of gaze is hard to live with, and keep a strong identity intact.
There is objectifying and admiring. Personally I see no problem admiring a fit, strong man. Just because I have no desire to meet said man doesn’t make my intentions nefarious, I’m not objectifying them. I can appreciate an attractive man (and my idea of attractive is not always predictable, I kind of like nerdy, interesting looking men) just as I can appreciate a beautiful sunset or a gorgeous child. There is nothing wrong with being attracted to beauty, we are all hardwired to appreciate it. It only becomes a problem if you look too long or try and pursue the… Read more »
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Emmeline
11 years ago
http://www.bootybreak.com <- Bless you tumblr, your hypocrisy came right when I needed you. (For those not wanting to click, it's where you can make male asses flex, dance and get slapped.)
Yes, of course men are (or can be) objectified by women or other men. What I haven’t seen, though, is men being objectified systemically. We don’t seem to pay the same amount of attention as a society to how men dress and what they do (or don’t do) with their sexuality as we do with women. This isn’t to say that men are never subjected to harmful, unrealistic ideas about their bodies. But the expectations for men and women are very different. Women’s bodies are subject to far more public debate in my experience. Now it could be that this… Read more »
“We don’t seem to pay the same amount of attention as a society to how men dress and what they do (or don’t do) with their sexuality as we do with women.” How we dress, no, but how we use our sexuality are you kidding? If we didn’t people wouldn’t say things like “a virgin isn’t a real man”, we wouldn’t have hours upon hours upon hours of discussions of sexual objectification, or how having the option of masturbating makes it harder to get men to bend over backwards with the promise of sex (pretty much the basis of the… Read more »
I agree with everything except the part about hoping the future is not like Magic Mike lol. I suppose my comment is the perfect example of male objectification!
For a moment let’s step away from sexual objectification. Now are you trying to say that men are not reduced to what kind of work they do, how much money they being home, what kind of material possessions they have (cars, houses, etc…)? Let’s come back to sexual objectification. Now while I can agree that men don’t have their sexuality under the microscope in the same way that women do but it’s under a microscope alright (maybe on a different setting). We don’t seem to pay the same amount of attention as a society to how men dress and what… Read more »
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Matt N
11 years ago
I had a big long diatribe written here, but I decided not to post it. Instead I want to kind of sidestep and ask “why is objectification always about Men vs. Women? Why is it always sexual?” Heterosexual Men objectify other heterosexual men regularly, and heterosexual women objectify other heterosexual women regularly. Objectification means, at it’s root, seeing someone not as a human being but as an idealized form with no worth outside of those parts you prefer to notice. Men objectify NFL stars all the time, and Women objectify Models. Businesspeople objectify other businesspeople, regardless of gender. Objectification need… Read more »
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Emmeline
11 years ago
Well obviously they can be objectified. And are. Go read through any kink meme, and you’ll have pretty boys being whumped galore.
In a word, yes, although it tends to be in different ways.
Can men be objectified? Of Course Not! What a Silly Question! There is just NO Evidence to show any such possible behaviour exists – or that ladies are such lascivious, lecherous and out of control beasts – in the same way as men! The following Links have nothing to do with the subject – and simply prove how Objectification of men is a Myth – and ranks with the Abominable Snowman, Sasquatch, the acting skills of Jennifer Love Hewitt and the Female Orgasm. http://www.chippendales.com – still at it after 32 years! (Founded 1979) P^) NO Objection or Objectification there! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080365/… Read more »
The female orgasm is not a myth…
I think his tongue may have been in his cheek there…
One word for the objectification of men: Military!
^ This. I still don’t understand how people can say that the forced marriage of a woman is a crime against humanity and yet ignore the millions of men drafted into mandatory military service. No matter how you look at it, it seems like the military service is just as damaging.
Exactly. Male disposability is built into our culture, so much so that it’s not even noticed or remarked upon.
“Was it a disaster?”
“Well, that depends; were any women or children killed?”
Just two cents from a psychologists who researchs objectification: There is good evidence that men and women are both sexually objectified, but there is an important difference in magnitude. Women tend to be objectified more than men, and women (yes, women) tend to objectify more than men. How is it that women objectify more than men? Well, both sexes sexually objectify each other – with men holding a slight edge over women. However, heterosexual women objectify other women, but hetereosexual men show a significantly reduced tendency to sexually objectify other men. So, by virtue of sexually objectifying both men and… Read more »
Men can and are objectified like women are (both sexually and culturally). It just isn’t discussed as much in male culture due to male social and gender norms. Just like you can see the objectification of women in male oriented media (i.e. action movies, porn, etc…), you can also see this same kind of thing in female oriented media (dramas, romance novels, etc…). The main difference between how men and women objectify is that men objectify primarily on a visual basis, and women objectify primarily on an emotional basis. I am fairly omnivorous when comes to my consumption of media… Read more »
Geeky Gentleman, yes to a lot of what you say however I would contest the’ men being visual, women being emotional’ in what they ‘objectify’ (or what I like to call admire). Adultery, sex, fantasies or reading sexy novels is quite different from just having a good old perve. In this instance women can be as ‘visual’ as men. We are equally capable of looking at handsome men (or whomsoever we may consider attractive) on a purely visual basis without emotions coming into it. When i look at someone without trying to take it further I am looking because they… Read more »
Perhaps we need clarification on the meaning of objectification, there appears to be an assumption that that objectification is only sexual or physical, or perhaps those are the only forms that matter.
If we consider objectification means to simply reduce a person to their potential transient utility to the beholder, then hell yeah, men are objectified: Business man, garbage man, police man, fire man, mail man, chair man, congress man, good guy, bad guy, soldier, judge, prisoner, doctor, welder, hero, villain, monster, ect. ect.
Can men be objectified? Yes. Are they? Yes.
How does it differ from when women are? Only in terms of how it is perceived for example by feminists many of whom don’t believe men can be objectified.
#metrosexual
Men get objectified for looking like they’re strong. It’s still a reduction of the man to a culturally valued, impersonal attribute. It’s nice to have my girlfriend admire my muscles, and to get admiring looks, but I know they don’t see me when they’re doing this. I’ve gotten objectified for being sexy, too, and it’s much more threatening. Being objectified, even for being strong, is okay in small doses, but to be bombarded with that kind of gaze is hard to live with, and keep a strong identity intact.
There is objectifying and admiring. Personally I see no problem admiring a fit, strong man. Just because I have no desire to meet said man doesn’t make my intentions nefarious, I’m not objectifying them. I can appreciate an attractive man (and my idea of attractive is not always predictable, I kind of like nerdy, interesting looking men) just as I can appreciate a beautiful sunset or a gorgeous child. There is nothing wrong with being attracted to beauty, we are all hardwired to appreciate it. It only becomes a problem if you look too long or try and pursue the… Read more »
http://www.bootybreak.com <- Bless you tumblr, your hypocrisy came right when I needed you. (For those not wanting to click, it's where you can make male asses flex, dance and get slapped.)
Yes, of course men are (or can be) objectified by women or other men. What I haven’t seen, though, is men being objectified systemically. We don’t seem to pay the same amount of attention as a society to how men dress and what they do (or don’t do) with their sexuality as we do with women. This isn’t to say that men are never subjected to harmful, unrealistic ideas about their bodies. But the expectations for men and women are very different. Women’s bodies are subject to far more public debate in my experience. Now it could be that this… Read more »
“We don’t seem to pay the same amount of attention as a society to how men dress and what they do (or don’t do) with their sexuality as we do with women.” How we dress, no, but how we use our sexuality are you kidding? If we didn’t people wouldn’t say things like “a virgin isn’t a real man”, we wouldn’t have hours upon hours upon hours of discussions of sexual objectification, or how having the option of masturbating makes it harder to get men to bend over backwards with the promise of sex (pretty much the basis of the… Read more »
You’re assuming that “sexual objectification” is the only kind there is.
it isn’t.
I agree with everything except the part about hoping the future is not like Magic Mike lol. I suppose my comment is the perfect example of male objectification!
“Women’s bodies are subject to far more public debate in my experience.”
Lol…its almost like the “On Unsolicited Penis Pics” article isn’t also on the GMP at the exact same time you posted this.
For a moment let’s step away from sexual objectification. Now are you trying to say that men are not reduced to what kind of work they do, how much money they being home, what kind of material possessions they have (cars, houses, etc…)? Let’s come back to sexual objectification. Now while I can agree that men don’t have their sexuality under the microscope in the same way that women do but it’s under a microscope alright (maybe on a different setting). We don’t seem to pay the same amount of attention as a society to how men dress and what… Read more »
I had a big long diatribe written here, but I decided not to post it. Instead I want to kind of sidestep and ask “why is objectification always about Men vs. Women? Why is it always sexual?” Heterosexual Men objectify other heterosexual men regularly, and heterosexual women objectify other heterosexual women regularly. Objectification means, at it’s root, seeing someone not as a human being but as an idealized form with no worth outside of those parts you prefer to notice. Men objectify NFL stars all the time, and Women objectify Models. Businesspeople objectify other businesspeople, regardless of gender. Objectification need… Read more »
Well obviously they can be objectified. And are. Go read through any kink meme, and you’ll have pretty boys being whumped galore.