Another nude sports figure pointlessly objectified on a magazine cover

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50. people don't get out of shape over

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Consenting adult activity, at least I don't. I have issues with capitalist commodification of women into objects for sale. The issue is not the same for men since their value in society is not determined primarily by their appearance. The media is about commerce, not private behavior. The consenting adults point has nothing to do with the issue and to continually raise it is just plain weird. It's not their choices or behavior that concerns most feminists but rather that wider economic and cultural environment in which these images operate.

I USED to be concerned that liberals were dismissive of women's rights, but now I know most of those same people are dismissive of all rights except their own. As a result I expect no more from them than any random person on any random website. People are who they are. I can't convince them to care about sexism, racism or any other injustice. Most people are fundamentally selfish and entirely unwilling to examine issues in ways that don't benefit
themselves. Discussions of objectification and
privilege exemplify that, though the same tendency is evident in other issues as well.

I no longer get bent out of shape because I have learned to expect nothing. As for those who go out of their way to mock issues of sexism by posting OPs like this, I see them as openly contemptuous of the views of feminists (or in the case of mocking privilege and with it racism, of the views and experiences of people of color).