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hellyeahscarleteen:

About “objectification” - what does it really mean?

radtransfem:

Objectification isn’t “finding someone attractive”, or leering at them, or harassing them, although it can play into all of those things.

Objectification is literally seeing someone as a non-human object, like a cube, or a climbing frame.

Objectification is when you only acknowledge a woman when she has placed herself inside a plastic “object” shell created out of makeup, restrictive clothing, performed feminine behaviour and is in some kind of vulnerable situation.

What’s being acknowledged then isn’t a woman any more, it’s the exoskeleton/cage of “woman”.

If parts of a woman show outside of the cage - for example, stretch marks, or un-made-up eyes (made-up = fantastical = not real), or god forbid a defiant personality, it will either be forced back into the cage (oh, she’s so feisty! kitten got claws!) or, the woman having “failed” to present as an object, she will not be acknowledged as a “woman”.

and constantly referring to a womyn with a label other than her name

(via homoarigato)