Objectification will always be around, advertising depends on it

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203. Further reading in what?

One can be seen as objectification. Two is not. One is the WWII period, which coincides with white middle-class' women's entrance into the workforce and entirely confirms my point.

The question was about objectification, which the OP wants to claim is immutable, has always existed and will always exist. Yet he ties it to mass market advertising, which is a 20th century phenomenon. The question was not about pinups per se, or sexism or misogyny more generally. It was a specific reference to objectification, and I CLEARLY specified objectification as we understand it today.

The anti-intellectual argument that "things have always been this way" is a clear attempt to justify exploitation. It is how slaveholders saw their world, even though transatlantic slavery was no more constant than any other form of exploitation. It is always the refuge of those who promote inequality and exploitation.