No. I feel like I’m going around in circles here, but a woman wearing revealing attire is not necessarily doing so to arouse or turn men on in general...
Male revues give women a safe place to openly appreciate an impressive masculine physique and participate in fantasies without the guy expecting anyth...
It’s not about whether or not I can handle people being rude to me. It’s that it isn’t ok to treat people like dirt. At Walmart, you get paid to facil...
An interesting tangential discussion. I think for the most part, we are unaware of why we do most things that we do ‘naturally’. I agree that most con...
Absolutely. It is possible to value someone for their appearance without treating them as if they exist purely for your aesthetic appreciation or phys...
So, all actions are permissible unless explicitly stated? Do I need to set the ground rules for every interaction, or can I simply expect you to treat...
First of all, presenting yourself in a way that causes sexual arousal in another is not necessarily permitting objectification, nor is it self-objecti...
Agreed. But we’re not talking about a psychologist who knows his patient, or even a lay person who knows the person. We’re talking about someone makin...
No. Seriously, if she is physically beautiful, she should not have to hide her beauty in order to be treated as a human being. And if she chooses to d...
What choice? Material agency is not being valued in pornography. The object is valued by men in their own narrative, and nothing more. The woman’s cho...
No, the baby is not objectifying the mother, but rather learning that his physical identity is not inclusive of the mother, despite the connection and...
I agree - casual sex is an unspoken agreement that the ‘relationship’ is only the sexual encounter - but this is not a suspension of agency. I think t...
What you’re describing is not objectification, though. If everyone is in on the game, then everyone has agency, whether it’s a casual fuck or a long t...
I don’t think it’s helpful to distinguish between sexual and political objectification. All that does is permit objectification in sexual relations. J...
That’s inaccurate, and it was what I was arguing. I made it very clear that physical appearance was a deciding factor in certain circumstances, but le...
I agree that a lack of self-consciousness can muddy the waters here - there is no ‘right’ answer to this question, but there is an honest one. I’m a b...
A duck is not just an object, any more than a scantily clad woman is just an object. To objectify what is not just an object is to deny that it’s anyt...
If you can’t make a distinction in your words between asking someone why they chose to wear a particular top and telling someone that you don’t like w...
No - this is not objectification, it’s respecting her choice. If you then dismissed her preferences for how, where and when sex would occur - because ...
I am being true to myself - you are dismissing my account of inner reality based on your assumption that everyone thinks the way you think they do. I’...
And if a scantily clad woman walked up to you and whispered “Let’s have sex”, you wouldn’t stop her to ask her why she was dressed that way. If it loo...
Well, I don’t agree that sex as an act is an existential need. It’s a biological urge, sure. But I’d be pretty confident that those women being ‘promi...
A person’s attire suggests a lot about them, but to make assumptions purely by the way they’re dressed can be rude, insulting and dangerous. Just beca...
It’s actually a good question. Casual sex for the most part is a mutual fantasy - it’s a dance of cognitive dissonance. He pretends he’s interested in...
It might be. To be honest, I didn’t write this with a workplace situation in mind at all, so I can see how it could backfire in that case. It depends ...
To be honest, I’m not convinced that women who rail against objectification by men, and women who dress specifically to be hit on - even by only certa...
Women in general are individuals who can and do think for themselves, and any suggestion that they are not is ridiculous. If some women choose to exag...
Women clothe themselves a particular way for a wide range of reasons, including (but not confined to): competing with other women for social or politi...
Personal subjective knowledge that can be structured into concepts forms part of our conceptual systems. All words and concepts we use to communicate ...
That’s not how I see it. When I say ‘within a human perspective’, I’m referring only to how we construct and define it, not to how it is ‘out there’. ...
Science isn’t impossible - we just need to accept its limitations of certainty/objectivity in relation to precision. This is what quantum theory and i...
We disagree on how we ‘carve nature’, it seems. I see categories as how we agree to divide the world in social reality. They are constructions of perc...
If you pay attention to how you organise, store and retrieve memories in your mind, you may notice that they’re not necessarily organised chronologica...
Suppose the aim is not for you to reach 100% experience points, but for anyone to reach it. How does that change how you play the game, the types of s...
It is this key distinction that you make which confuses your supposed aim to bridge the divide. The aim of science is to deal with abstractions and un...
This Newtonian perception you have of space as a ‘container’ is where we seem to be getting stuck. Space IS the measurable relations between systems a...
By ‘intuitive and instinctive’, you’re referring to internal processes you’re not fully aware of. I’ve already explained that these terms are not abou...
If by ‘studied’ you mean formally, then no, I haven’t - I took an interest in panpsychism and process philosophy, and read up on the writings of Leibn...
I’m going take a few steps back, in an effort to pick up where I thought we were making progress in understanding each other. I hope you don’t mind. I...
I don’t think I’m downplaying it, either. I didn’t refer to it as ‘mere’ - that’s you downplaying subjective constraint, not me. I’m well aware of its...
Procreation is an intention to reproduce the system for its own sake: to ‘create forward’, so to speak. It extends the four-dimensional system to ‘sur...
Fair enough. I don’t think I’ve given enough information on the forum to explain this part very well, particularly in relation to the universe - and n...
Might want to check who you’re speaking to before you attack... What I call ‘passive-aggressive self-deprecation’ is your continual reference to yours...
It’s interesting that your initial thought was simply procreation. If it was only about human awareness, connection and collaboration for its own sake...
Is it a spiritual plane or a physical dimension? Both, and neither. Sorry - not a very helpful start, is it? If you consider the ‘fifth dimension’ in ...
If information ‘stored’ in our brain were able to ‘survive’ beyond death, I believe it would do so in a form of energy that is devoid of the meaning a...
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