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But for Ani, this reduces her to an object, a plaything for men to have fun with and abandon as soon as they’re finished.

Musk’s conversion of Twitter from a publicly traded company to a personal plaything could kick up so much more bile than we saw in 2020, and 2020 sucked.

“Looking back, I believe I was recruited purely as a potential sex partner or plaything for Al Fayed, hence the questions at the interview to establish if I was a virgin,” Margot says.

“What I do feel, whoever plays any part ever, is that you have to take these things as seriously as you take your own life, and it is not a game, and that these people and their struggles and the experiences you’re trying to render are not a plaything,” Strong says.

Red Lobster became a plaything for financial engineers, a condition that almost never — if ever — leads to an improved consumer experience and greater profits in the long term.