Ok.... the part that seems logical to me is.....

How can anyone say women aren't regarded as objects when, not only are objects referred to as "she" or "her" but also women are paraded around on stages and judged by their bodies(ie-- Miss America)-- like one would a car.... and men go to strip clubs to gawk and touch women... like they would a boat or a car-- without any regard as to if she has a child at home, does she have a brother, a father-- how was her childhood, how is she feeling today....

--- that's how an object is treated.... a=b so b=a

it seems quite logical to conclude that women are an "it" by many in this patriarchal culture. To serve, to please, to be judged by appearance and valued if others can get something from her(without having to concern themselves with her).... like a boat, a car or a plane.

I s'pose I may be talking to the wall......... others don't seem to see things as realistically as I...... the connections of things.....or they get upset with me.... maybe I hit a nerve???

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I see how little boys not being able to show emotional pain can fester and in the right conditions, can bring an ill minded(perhaps highly sensitive) one to finally get that pain out with a knife or a gun. I see how a little girl taught that her value is in her body can be a target for repeated abuse and also because that body has let her down she may seek to mutilate it.
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I see connections........it's like having an answer to a big problem-- like an oil leak... but no one seems to really listen.....
I have ideas to stop that "oil leak"-- but-- the culture is too set in their ways to take any time/energy to help fix things.

argh......

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