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
In the tome of essays, author and educator Patricia Pisters discusses Madonna’s ability to transcend the traditional objectification and victimization that famous women are usually subject to.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2025
Grammatically speaking, I’ve contemplated the power of the closeup, both an objectification and a privilege.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2024
Dante's objectification of morality, his art of giving visible forms and local habitations to ideal virtues and vices, was for him a thoroughly serious and philosophical exercise.
From Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe by George Santayana
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
