--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An essay relevant to the current discussion > > By Greg Lyons, junior English major > Published: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 > Article Tools:Email This ArticlePrint This Article Page 1 of 1 > > To Women: > > You are attacking the wrong people if you are trying to separate > yourselves from being labeled as mere sexual objects. > > Stop blaming your inequality on strippers, porn stars, prostitutes and > other women who flaunt their sexuality. As a man, I'll tell you right > now that they are not the reason for your objectification. > > Suppose, by some horrible act, all the sexually related jobs that > "degraded" and "objectified" women just disappeared today. What would > change? You would still be viewed as sex objects because the > underlying reason behind the objectification is not other women, it is > men. > > As I said, even if you forced other women to quit their jobs and then > placed them into more "suitable" professions, you (women) would still > be objectified by men. If you wear a low-cut shirt, we'll try to look > down it; if you wear a miniskirt, we'll try to look up it; if we stare > long enough, we'll start to wonder how good you are in the sack. > > Do not think I'm saying that you should start wearing jumpsuits or > cover-alls. Such a proposal would be ludicrous and ineffective because > we would still picture you naked. And no matter what you do on the > outside; we will always, on one level or another, sexually objectify you.
That's not what I've been talking about. It is the distortion of male- female relationships that is the problem. Men fantasize about women and guess what? Women fantasize about men. That is NOT the issue. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
