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Originally Posted by abaya
From the brief conversation I had with one Portuguese woman about working there (in broken English), she's grown callous to the men's comments and tries not to pay attention anymore. So is that how women are supposed to "learn" how to react to this kind of behavior?
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Now, I think you're being facetious but I can't really tell because of those missed social cues.
My answer to that is, "No." You can't take one example of one woman and apply it to the entire gender. In HER case it is the MEN who need to be educated ... and she probably needs some kind of esteem counseling at this point because of it.
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Originally Posted by powerclown
And every woman who's posted in this thread has posted nude pics of themselves here. All hail the rational irrationality of women.
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Let's not confuse nudity and the nude body with objectification (as it is being referred to in this thread). It's true that some objectification is happening with those photographs ... it's inherent in taking a picture ... but that was not the INTENT behind most of those photographs.
With regard to prostitution and the commodification of sex ... there is a difference between exploitative behavior and selling sex as a commodity. IF the taboos around sex weren't so entrenched it might be possible to have better regulation of the sex industry ... and that includes everything from pornography to prostitution. As it stands now ... it's marginalized and guess what? It's rampant with exploitation because of it.
But that's probably a different topic.