objectification
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Though their obsessions with moisturizers and eyebrow grooming seem pretty girlie to someone of my generation, looksmaxxing is rooted in objectification.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
"I was 17. I was in a moment of discovery. As women, it's such unfair objectification."
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2026
Grammatically speaking, I’ve contemplated the power of the closeup, both an objectification and a privilege.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2024
“We also prohibit content promoting exploitation, nonconsent, objectification, sexualization or harm to minors, and obscene behaviors,” X said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
This may help us to understand better the relations between aesthetics and hedonics, and the nature of that objectification in which we have placed the difference between beauty and pleasure.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George
In this contemplation the mind is filled with pure intellectual forms, the ``Platonic Ideas'' as he calls them, which are objectifications of the will at a certain grade of completeness of representation.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg