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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
Is "objectification" anything other than a hate for male sexuality? Nominally it apparently is "the act or an instance of treating a person as an object or thing". Which already does not make sense even related to male sexuality, because most men want to have sex with a person, not a toaster.

So then we have a second informal definition of, I guess, having a direct personal interest related to the person and not caring about their feelings a lot. Which *also* doesn't make sense related to male sexuality because yes, while a man may want to have sex with a woman without caring about her feelings, it's ludicrous to think that's the only time anyone ever has a practical interest  in a person without caring about their feelings. With that definition, "objectification" would be the standard way of interacting with anyone that is not your personal friend. Even if you limit it to sexual interest, women would still "objectify" men just as much as men "objectify" women, just with a slightly different personal interest. It only works with the implied assumption that caring about status and money more than youth and beauty is somehow an inherent moral good.

So in the end, the actual definition of the word as it is used really is just "men wanting to have sex with a woman without also serving her interests in another way"; it's a demonization of what women don't like about male sexuality dressed up as enlightended science.
gpt
It's more than that - due to hypersexualisation sex becomes more and more disconnected from relationships between persons - even if shagging a person and not a toaster, it becomes far more common to treat the person more like a toaster,  without the previously held standards and obligations, like a thing.

The first definiton would make no sense when shagging a toaster, but it does when shagging a person while disregarding obligations and properness required when dealing with a person, essentially boiling down to a tool for lust.