Jogamation

Anonymous asked: Do you think men are also objectified in today’s society, but it’s definitely not to the extent that women are, and is mitigated by male privilege?

fuckyeahgenderstudies:

No, not really. Not by women, anyway. Male privilege doesn’t mitigate men’s objectification—it prevents it.

I think “masculinity” is commodified, but that’s not the same, and since it’s exclusively targeted to cismen, this commodification serves as a tool of male privilege’s propagation through the vehicle of aspirational induction. We’re sold male privilege as a panacea to the other intersections of powerlessness we feel. Indeed the same structures that sell this panacea induce, or at the least intensify, that perception of powerlessness, partly under the guise of this notion that cismen, in order to be “Real Men”, must be in a dominator role, must be privileged, must be authoritarian, and at every turn are right. 

This privilege panacea is then disguised. By taking on the illusion of being in the same position as those that it oppresses, by pretending “Men are objectified”, it not only plays victim to dismiss “attacks” against it (really defenses, not attacks), it also disarms the validity of objectification by devaluing or derealizing the meaning of “objectify” into a farce.