The focus of the scholarly article that I read today was sexual objectification. It started off with questions about when something would be considered sexual objectification, and it clarified that it depended on the consent and autonomy of the female. It stated the many ways that someone may be sexually objectified:
Instrumentality
Denial of autonomy
Inertness
Fungibility
Violability
Ownership
Denial of subjectivity
I found this list to be very interesting and pertinent to my research. I think that all these acts of sexual objectification were demonstrated in the sixth episode of Dollhouse. Instrumentality is using a person for one’s own personal gain or pleasure, denial of subjectivity is the disregard for a person’s emotions or feelings, inertness is when one treats a person as if he or she lacks agency, etc. These can all be seen in the way that the male characters in Dollhouse treat the female actives. The scene with Hearne and Sierra can definitely be an example of all three of those, and the scene with Ballard and his co-worker shows inertness and violability. These words are fairly new to me so I will have to do some more research on them, but I’m glad that I found an article that I can base most of my research on. It explains the terms pretty well and is written in a way that is relatively easy to read. A lot of the other scholarly articles that I read were written in such a way that I had to read one sentence around 3 times before I got the gist of it.
Sexual objectification is wrong. Being a male myself, it disturbs me that guys actually do this.
ReplyDeleteIt is wrong not to have any regards for someone else's feelings. Nobody is a tool to just be used and discarded.
ReplyDeleteBryce: Yeah it's pretty much everywhere since media is universal so it's not something that you can just stop.
ReplyDeleteObi: No one ever has a reason to use someone else to his or her advantage. But I suppose this can be true for both genders.
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