Another nude sports figure pointlessly objectified on a magazine cover

[Squinch]

186. When someone mocks a Walmart customer or dismisses a cop as a pig,

there is no inference that the Walmart customer or the cop are there for the use of others. I think this is the element that most men do not understand, and here is why: women routinely run into men who are overt about their belief that women have no valid purpose except for the use of men, for men to have sex with. I am guessing you have no idea how common it is for women to run into this attitude.

The constant barrage of images of women's bodies (and almost never men's bodies) used to sell product commodifies women's bodies. It makes women a commodity. Commodities are things to be used. The constant commodification gives the clear message that women are there primarily to provide gratification. Women routinely run into men who have absorbed this message. You probably have no concept of how often that happens in an average woman's day. There is no corresponding commodification of men, or of Walmart customers or of cops, that gives a message that they are there to be used by others.

Now, there is where some idiot will chime in with, "I'd love to be used for gratification," which only shows how little the speaker understands the experience being described.