{"id":43683,"date":"2018-06-07T03:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T07:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=43683"},"modified":"2018-06-06T16:35:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T20:35:30","slug":"faith-moore-explains-how-to-avoid-sexually-objectifying-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/06\/07\/faith-moore-explains-how-to-avoid-sexually-objectifying-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith Moore explains how to avoid sexually objectifying women"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s apparently very simple and straightforward, once you double-check the feminist cheat sheet<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Apparently feminism has become so confusing that even feminists don\u2019t know what\u2019s feminist anymore. But Everyday<\/em> feminists apparently do \u2014 and they\u2019ve provided us with a handy cheat sheet so we don\u2019t accidentally objectify someone who was trying to be empowered, or empower someone who was trying to be objectified.<\/p>\n

The way to tell the difference, according to Everyday Feminism<\/em>, is to figure out who has the power. \u201cIf the person being \u2018looked at,\u2019 or sexualized, has the power in the situation, then they are sexually empowered.\u201d Here\u2019s an example: \u201cif someone puts on \u2018sexy\u2019 clothing and goes out in public or takes a selfie and shares it, they have the power because they chose themselves to put on those clothes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oh, okay, I get it. So, if a woman chooses to put on \u201csexy\u201d clothes and go out in public then all the catcalls and inappropriate comments and unwanted marriage proposals are empowering because she chose to put on those clothes. Oh, and also if she takes a \u201csexy\u201d selfie and posts it on Instagram, all the comments about how she\u2019s a \u201cslut\u201d and a \u201cwhore\u201d and should \u201cput her clothes on\u201d are also empowering because she chose to share that photo. (I\u2019m learning so much!)<\/p>\n

But wait! Apparently beauty standards \u201ccompel\u201d some people to wear sexy clothing \u201cbecause they believe that they won\u2019t be beautiful\u201d otherwise. And there are even some people who feel they must not wear sexy clothing \u201cbecause they are shamed if they do.\u201d<\/p>\n

So even if you think<\/em> you put on those clothes of your own free will, it\u2019s possible that society<\/em> was actually hiding in your closet handing you things to put on (which is creepy) and that\u2019s<\/em> why you dressed all sexy (or not sexy). Which means that even though you thought<\/em> you were empowered, it turns out you\u2019re actually being objectified. And if you choose not<\/em> to dress in the way you wanted to dress because society tells you that society was telling you it was wrong, then you\u2019re empowered because you\u2019re doing what someone else told you not to do about what someone else told you to do. (This makes total sense. I\u2019m such a good feminist!)<\/p>\n

But what about people who don\u2019t<\/em> dress \u201csexy\u201d? Don\u2019t worry, they can be objectified too. \u201cEven a person who is \u2018modestly\u2019 dressed can objectified if the \u2018looking\u2019 person makes a non-sexual situation sexual without the \u2018looked at\u2019 person\u2019s consent.\u201d Oh good, for a minute there I thought \u201cmodestly dressed\u201d people were being excluded from objectification and was worried because I know exclusion is wrong and we shouldn\u2019t do it. Phew! Glad that even people who don\u2019t want to be objectified still can be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s apparently very simple and straightforward, once you double-check the feminist cheat sheet: Apparently feminism has become so confusing that even feminists don\u2019t know what\u2019s feminist anymore. But Everyday feminists apparently do \u2014 and they\u2019ve provided us with a handy cheat sheet so we don\u2019t accidentally objectify someone who was trying to be empowered, or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,13],"tags":[262,987,43],"class_list":["post-43683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-culture","tag-feminism","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bmz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43684,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43683\/revisions\/43684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}