EXACTLY. I get the same impression too. So maybe I need to make this clear.
FINDING SOMEONE ATTRACTIVE IS NOT OBJECTIFICATION. No one asked you to stop finding people attractive, to stop having natural feelings or observations which may not even be sexual in nature all the time. (Like I may look at someone and think they are aesthetically pleasing without feeling any actual attraction to them)
Thinking somebody is dressed well is not objectification. Thinking “Gee that young lady down the street sure is beautiful” is not objectification.
What is objectification? It is when you do NOT see the person as a wholly formed alive being with hopes, dreams, feelings. You see them purely as an instrument/object of YOUR gratification. She is just “the hot chick”, or “a nice ass and pair of tits”. The only thing of value in that person is their attractiveness as it relates to how it makes you feel. Aka they are an object for YOUR desire and needs.
Here’s an idea: If professors are upset about students acting like “consumers” (i.e. requesting certain accommodations in their education), maybe those professors should be lobbying to abolish tuition and establish universal free higher education.
Because, guess what? If you make someone pay for their education, then yeah, they’re a consumer. You can’t charge someone tens of thousands of dollars for something and then ridicule them for treating it like a transaction.
Whenever I see breast cancer awareness campaigns that sexualize breasts/place the importance of breasts over the person suffering from breast cancer I remember this story I read on a cancer forum of a woman who had a double mastectomy and how a little after she got dropped off by her husband at the clinic for a checkup and he never came to pick her up, and how she eventually took a cab home and he had taken all his things and just LEFT
and multiple stories from other women who had mastectomies and how their husbands either left them, cheated on them, or were no longer attracted to them because they didn’t have a breast/breasts anymore. And that shit makes me so mad. You can argue all you want that they’re isolated cases but this is what happens when you put the importance on the sexualization of breasts over the well being of the survivor. The person suffering from cancer is ALWAYS, ALWAYS going to be more important. Treatment for cancer is so fucking difficult, it’s both physically and psychologically torturous and the fact that these people survived these ordeals only to deal with this misogynistic dehumanizing shit makes me want to fucking fight everyone. It makes me so goddamn mad.
It’s breast cancer awareness month so I’m bringing this back. Fuck your “save the tata’s” shirt; save, support, and love the people fighting this awful disease. They are so beautiful and so, so important and deserving with or without breasts.
The Main Four (The playable characters from the story mode)
Peggy Whitman
Former professional baseball player. Current housewife, mother of three, and terrible cook. Married to Arthur Whitman, Captain in the APD. Peggy is outspoken, tenacious, and strong-willed. Treats being told no as a personal challenge. Peggy’s planned AI personality is aggressive, attacking the nearest targets.
Betty Smith
Exceptional homemaker and chef. Also works as a nurse at Aberford General. Married to Phillip Smith, security liaison with Edwin Voorhees Industrial Laboratories. No children. Betty is kind, protective, and extremely competent at everything she does. Betty’s planned AI personality is Protective, targeting the zombies who are targeting the player.
Doris Baker
Doris worked as riveter during WWII while her husband Ralph fought in the Pacific theater. Now she waits tables at the local diner. Mother of four. Doris is tough, assertive, and committed to doing her duty as a citizen of Aberford and of the United States. Natural leader. Doris’ planned AI personality is Defensive, targeting the strongest or most dangerous enemies first.
Sylvia Hornberger
Sylvia’s fierce intelligence pushed her towards cutting-edge biochem research, where she met her now-husband Carl. She worked at Edwin Voorhess Industrial Laboratories for six years until she was terminated after becoming pregnant with her second child. Ruthless and tactically minded. Sylvia’s planned AI personality is Predatory, targeting the zombies that can be defeated the fastest.
The Expansion Characters (Play important roles in the main story and are playable in freeplay/multiplayer mode, with full side campaigns as stretch goals. Story details may still change for some of them.)
Norma Thompson
(I’m going to let a real artist do the concept on Norma, but Norma has strong facial features that people sometimes mistake for being severe or strict. She is, in fact, very warm once she opens up to people.)
Norma is the manager of
Ms. Butler’s Boarding House for Girls and Young Women. She fought in WWII before transitioning and takes an experimental anti-androgen that she gets from a friend at Edwin Voorhees Industrial Laboratories. Norma is smart, practical, and very protective of the girls in her charge.
Mary Kuroki
A third-generation Japanese-American who spent her teenage years in a wartime internment camp. After relocating to Aberford, Ohio, Mary’s father sent her to college, where she earned a degree in Engineering. Mary builds rockets for Edwin Voorhees Industrial Laboratories and, much to her mother’s irritation, is unmarried.
Patricia Baker
At sixteen, Patricia is Doris’ oldest daughter. She’s a cheerleader at the local high school, where the zombie outbreak is particularly bad.
Alejandra Rasmussen
Alejandra fell in love with a Mormon missionary in Mexico and married him shortly after he completed a degree in mathematics at BYU. Alejandra speaks very little English, but is a talented painter and is very self-reliant. She and her husband chose a really, really bad day to begin their new life in Aberford, Ohio.
The more I hear about this game the more amazed I become. Let’s face it, the 1950s was not a very diverse time in America, especially when we consider the limited opportunities for women and the “non-white” population. The fact that the cast is made up of strong women from various ethnicities and races (including a transitioned male to female and a teenager) is a HUGE and positive step for not only survival horror gamers but all gamers tired of playing stereotypical macho men or scantily clad heroines with huge breasts. I truly hope that this game not only becomes a success, but also that it may start a trend of giving ALL gamers strong and positive role models
^ Gets it.
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one thing abt those “rethink homelessness” ads theyre always showing white people holding up signs like “i had a business/i was a dentist/i had a scholarship/i went to harvard”
like thats great.. good for them. but what about the homeless people who never “achieved” anything?
what about the homeless people who came from broken homes, got pregnant at 15, dropped out of high school, got addicted to drugs, never went to college, worked at mcdonalds since they were teenagers
“rethink homelessness” wants to show you the homeless people who were “worth something”. the “good” homeless people so you can look at them and think “oh look i guess all homeless people arent worthless bums after all! i should start caring about some of them!!”
those “rethink homelessness” ads seem to only promote homeless people who “made something of themselves” but then life took a tragic turn for them. as if theyre the only kind of homeless people who deserve empathy and respect
protect and respect ALL homeless people. even the ones who never got even a little close to being “successful”. even the “bad ones” who are the stereotypical homeless people
just because a person never “made something of themselves” doesnt mean theyre beneath you
“rethinking homelessless”?? more like subtle classism imo
Do you ever just wanna sit in someones lap and straddle them but not even in the sexy way, in the I just wanna wrap myself around you and lay my head on your shoulder with my face pressed against your neck you kinda way
Disheveled Mess 