Women are very quick to jump on the ‘Objectification bandwagon’.

Don’t you think?

We are so ready to jump on the ‘that magazine cover is fake’ show and grab our microphone and say that ‘real women don’t look like that’ etc.

I have a friend who is skinny. I mean really skinny. Like it doesn’t matter what she puts into her mouth, she remains resolutely, and absolutely skinny.

Yeah. Love to *hate* her for that.

But still she’s a friend.

A lucky, lucky, LUCKY friend, who gets ridiculed and snickered about behind her back, with people assuming that she has an eating disorder…but I digress…

Back to my point. Chicks. Wenches. Womenfolk.

So ready to fly the feminism flag.

Liberté, Sororité, Egalité and all that.

Yeah, great iconic painting guys let’s fight for freedom and equality, and don’t forget to have the hot chick carrying the flags’ bewbs fall out just to make sure we catch peoples attention okay?*

liberty leading the people

You see?

YOU SEE??

Were you getting as fired up as me there?

*Art history majors, relax, I too am a student of the arts and I understand that she is a mythical interpretation of the spirit of freedom that was urging the people on toward equality, and they indicated this exactly because of the exposed bits. Or at least Eugene Delacroix was a naughty naughty French Romantic and has been poking fun at us for 150 years.

Anyhoo, has anyone ever considered the flip side of this spiky coin?

What about when we objectify men?

Is that okay?

Is it a case of tit for tat?

How does your average male feel about us perving on hot male celebrities? Do their fragile ego’s take it on the chin? Do they run to the nearest pharmacy for their very own supply of fat burners for men and spend hours obsessing how their butts look in these pants?

Probably not.

Or if they do, we complain that our men are turning into women.

So then. What the hell do we actually want????

…and more importantly

WHAT EXACTLY IS THE POINT THAT I WAS TRYING TO MAKE!??

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