So.. Scantily Clad Women at the IGDA Party Made The Industry Freak Out.. Sexism Again?

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wfz said:

It's the same reason why calling a white person a cracker isn't as offensive as calling a black person a nigger.  There is a systematic history of one group being held down... primarily by the other group.

That something is more offensive based on context is humerous to you?  

Objectifying women is a call back to when they weren't treated like people.   Which was a hell of  alot more recent then you seem to think.  (It hasn't even been 100 years.)

Objectifying men brings men back to... never.  Men have always had at worst a majority of power socially.  Such things only hurt when there is something to hurt... something to call back to.

 

 

Honestly, men are objectified as well. I've been objectified and felt pressured to look a certain way my entire life. And I've also been put under pressure for the way I look my entire life as well. I understand the difference - men are objectified in a powerful way and women are objectified in a softer, more sexualized manner. But both are objectified and both have pressure to look like the object portrayed in societies.

Congradualations for completely 100% missing the point.

First off, Men aren't pressured to look a certain way... at least not remotely near as much.

Secondly, it's not "powerful" vs "soft"

It's "Powerful" vs "For most of the history of mankind women have been more or less as property... and by most of history it's like 99% of history, since it's been less then 100 years since women have had the right to vote in this country let alone society ever getting to a point where men and women are treated equally.  Therefore treating women like property sort of has a stronger implication behind it."

 

Basically it's like "not getting" why a black person might be upset that at a party that's 95% white, for an industry that's 95% white ... every waiter and valet is black, and emphasis is put on them being servants.