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Yes I sexualize female bodies because I find them sexually attractive. Especially when I don’t know the person at all and it’s just a photo, so the only conclusion I can reach about them is: “Hot”.
I knew the comment was insensitive due to what it’s happening but I wanted to say it, so I said it. Downvote me, that’s why the mechanism is there.
I'm a bit surprised you don't seem to see what's wrong with this.
Would you mind explaining why you find it ok to write offensive things that are only tangentially related to the topic?
What happens in your mind belongs to you and I'm not judging that.
On the other hand, posting it in a public place - especially commenting a news article about a fight for their rights - just adds to the societal misogynistic habit that it's ok to sexualize fem bodies anytime, anywhere and to care less about their message than the way we see them.
I don't feel like it's an appropriate response, I'd rather engage in the discussion for two reasons:
You seem to imply that we have to maintain the same decorum in anonymous online spaces as we do in real life. When I’m online I can allow myself to be pure ego, because that’s the point of anonymity in the internet. I will continue to enjoy that as long as I can. Anything can be offensive to someone so I don’t worry too much about what is or isn’t offensive, especially so in anonymous online spaces.
To your second point. I think it is fine to sexualize all bodies, because we are sexual beings. I think women should embrace it and do it to men in return. The reason women don’t is often decorum or some idea of how a woman should properly think and act. We can acknowledge and respect the person for who they are after we know them, but before that I think it’s perfectly fine to let your first judgement be sexual. It’s wired into us and to act otherwise is denying human nature and even animal nature itself. By no means does that mean that I reduce people simply to their sex appeal, rather that without anything else to go on, that will be my first thought. I mean I can assume a lot of things about this lady from where she is, what she’s doing, other parts of her appearance etc. But I would only be assuming. Her being hot is the only objective (her attractiveness is a fact, fite me) assessment of her I can make.
So in a nutshell, I think humans better as monke and I allow myself to be monke online if I feel like it.
What a sociopathic ideology.