This last weekend has been a
struggle for me on the relationally, socially, and emotionally. After the dust settled and the drama slowly
disappeared, I realized that there is nothing you can do to stop men from
objectifying women and women objectifying men.
Now before you lynch me I would like to explain myself and I have a
little story to tell about this previous weekend.
We see women objectified every day,
on T.V., movies, video games, and products that have nothing to do with sex
that get sexified. You can really see
the sexual objectification when you go to the bars and at parties. Men will drool over the nicest butt they see
or the nicest pair of melons a women has, mix alcohol and the lost consciousness
and you see why sex sells. I went to the
bars Friday night with some friends and after having a few drinks before the
bars I kind of let myself go, but I was slowly losing the high that the alcohol
was giving me to the point that I cared about the women in the bars and how
many of them were going to be taken advantage of when they were there and
after. I had a girl friend who wasn’t
drunk and was pretty sober and earlier we had a nice talk about her old self
and how she wanted to stop letting men take advantage of her and how she wanted
to change and I promised to protect her from being taken advantage of and I
admit it I had feeling for this girl, earlier that day we went to a fish fry,
went to the UWSP basketball game, and I even got to meet her parents and it was
an overall awesome time, but as soon as the alcohol hit me and my other friends
it was only a matter of time till stuff was going to happen. I remembered my promise to her even when I
was drinking and my feelings for her were still very much present. I saw one of my friends dancing with her and
I was really upset and I knew I couldn’t do anything and she wasn’t doing
anything about it even though I told her over 3 times that we could leave if
she wasn’t having fun and she did not look like she was. We get back to our own separate rooms and
what do you know she lets him in her room and I was kind of heart broken. I am a guy so there is always that sexual
drive, but I truly cared and I was disappointed in her and jealous of the other
guy, but all I could do was text her how she let the “old” her take over and that’s
all I said. This all coming from a male's point of view.
Out of all that and the topic of
Microagression/Sex Objectification is that both parties sexually objectify one
another, yes, men do it more to women, but it’s still their regardless of the
location or the situation.
Check out my video, I know its long
and maybe my story doesn’t fit the topic that well, but look at how men and women
act at bars and that is proof enough of Sex/Self Objectification.
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