Brett

Of course you must know the truth of these issues. He became an official member of the Nazi party in April, 1933. He is quoted as saying it was “The g...

What brought Burrough’s cut-ups to mind and the comparison was your post that said “ The AI was fed poems from many times and genre ... “ So my impres...

Yes they’re different. I said not much more interesting than Burroughs.

That sounds like the opening salvo to a discussion to me. More than like or dislike anyway. But fine, I’ll leave it there that the poems are interesti...

And some thought it wasn’t so cool. I thought it was interesting to begin with but then started thinking on it some more and decided it was not much m...

What’s the point of the OP?

That’s fine. So what are we here for?

But if we can’t define “poem” then how do we progress?

Though I can stick to the idea about whether they can produce poetry, putting the issue of “anything” aside.

I’m not saying they can replace poets either. First I wondered if they could produce poetry then I wondered if they could produce anything at all with...

That’s the problem isn’t it? Are they actually producing anything? It’s like saying a sausage machine produce sausages without input from humans.

Yes I understand that. My laziness in writing. I wasn’t referring to the ethics of the situation but the way he approaches us and the world and keeps ...

It was a teachable situation for the boy, just not one you understand. He was confronted with the difference between the girls and himself. It wasn’t ...

So to follow these thoughts about culture to where they appear to direct us; for men to change their perception of women, to refuse to look at them in...

So how much control over it should we expect? And how do we know what to jettison and what to build on?

This does sort of suggest that culture has a purpose that is beyond us. Which is kind of contradictory.

It intrigues me that someone like Heidegger could focus so fiercely on this idea that forms the basis of everything he thought and then either find th...

I think you might have a point there. The sexualising of the female has to be ramped up to contend with cultural changes, even straight out boredom wi...

If we all ignored your post how would you feel?

I need to make myself more clear, or possibly I don’t have a point. The boy sees the breasts and is stunned by the what is different from him and his ...

Because who wants a society that wants that sort of control over a person? And without breasts the girls look no different from him or his friends. Ed...

Does there have to be a reason behind what is taboo that we understand? Can’t we just go with the idea that somehow parts of the body in different cul...

I was thinking about your comments on roles and culture. I remember once walking behind a family on the beach and they had a young boy around the age ...

Only that, or the quality of life. And is that the same as happiness? Calvin was talking about happiness.

Then I don’t think they’d be selfish people. They would be people who tried to be selfish. How much of ourselves are we expected to give to others? Is...

Selfish is: Is that wrong?

So, a gaze that gives instead of taking. And it’s not lost on me that it’s taking place in a creative act.

Well I think it’s interesting about the African women, assuming I’m correct, because this change has come about in our lifetime. So it’s possible to c...

What do we mean by selfish then?

And some no longer. The cultural ideas of beauty or attraction among different people in Africa, particularly women, in the form of a high band a of r...

Is there actually anything wrong in being selfish? Is being selfish the same as harming others?

It’s likely she did become what he was looking at, — Possibility I think I may have misinterpreted your post here. Do you mean that she became somethi...

Very interesting post. Obviously a lot more going on than men would understand. I don’t disagree with much of what you’ve said. I would also agree wit...

Playboy models having low self esteem presumably, or just stupid. That’s an unfair assumption, don’t you think? It sort of plays into the hands of obj...

I can’t get my head around that. Can you explain it a bit more?

No that’s not what I was inferring. I was suggesting, as you say, that not all staring is objectification. Though it may be that some women may think ...

That’s a definition to me.

I don’t think its always possible to tell the difference. That’s not what I was saying. She did not become what he was looking at. She wondered exactl...

Why would a woman let a man define who she is? And through only a look?

Heartbreaker.

No argument there, if that was purely the case, if that’s what all looking was about? But I don’t think you’ve explained what objectification is as an...

On the surface this appears to be such a tiresome OP, the subject itself, but it’s not, it’s a very interesting subject, if you jump off the cliff.

But , you don’t even have to be attractive. That’s another problem.

This is a problem. That’s your idea if it,

“Watch his tongue hanging out”.

It’s entirely possible, and more than likely happens often, that a women revealing parts of her body to a man isn’t about enticing him but ridiculing ...

That’s a surprising statement on a philosophy forum. How can you know the thoughts or feelings, and more, of another person?

I know what’s being revealed but I don’t know why. But consider this; other things, physical, are being revealed at the same time that you would not r...

I don't believe this is true. It's too easy to generalise to prove a point. It's necessary, to support the theory of objectification, that the stare, ...

What I meant by that statement is that the transactions turns the act and the watching into entertainment. Not that it is now legitimate. It's not cle...