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Some other posters here have said what I think.
I have a body, it is an object. My mind is a part of it and allows me to impart my thoughts to others. So I think, and feel also. Not only an object.
I don't feel objectified most of the time.
Sometimes I like to be objectified, because it makes me feel real, and sexual, and animal.
I like to look at men's bodies. So I objectify them at times.
I don't like being objectified in a professional setting. That is totally unprofessional, and disrespectful. But yes, as a woman it happens a lot.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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