smoth wrote:His complaint wasn't that it was unrelated to spring, it was that it didn't suit his preference.
My complaint was not that it did not suit my preference.
Rather that the objectification of women is insulting and offensive, not just to women, and should not be tolerated. If any objectification is to take place it should include both sexes, and if it's a choice between men, women, both, or none, I'd prefer none, followed by both. Seeing men objectified in the same way is cringeworthy, just as a lot of men feel uncomfortable around that kind of stuff, and women have had that for decades now. The whole thing makes a mockery of the valid, hard earnt relationships we have, be that girlfriends/wives, or boyfriends/husbands.
As a straight male however, you're in the category most likely to be oblivious to it, and most shielded from it, and fair enough, even some attractive women who get a lot of 'that' kind of attention are oblivious to it, or are aware but have tolerated it because "thats how society works".
There's an advert I'm fond of that makes the point, with women doing an exercise class in a scenic valley, with a comment on how sexist it is followed by a similar scene of men doing the same thing.
ps: Porn is different. Its expected and the people who go into it know full well that they're going to be objectified, and they're being objectified not because he's a man or she's a woman, and that's how it's meant to be, it's for different reasons entirely. If you don't like it then it's simple, either don't watch porn, or don't take part in producing it.
