{"id":6417,"date":"2009-02-28T02:34:25","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T07:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=6417"},"modified":"2010-12-23T03:39:53","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T08:39:53","slug":"male-self-objectification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/02\/28\/male-self-objectification\/","title":{"rendered":"Male Self-Objectification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To self-objectify is to think of yourself as an object first and a subject second.\u00a0\u00a0People who self-objectify often consider their\u00a0appearance to be for others and work on their bodies and attractiveness in order to please\/not offend an imagined other.\u00a0\u00a0Self-objectification is usually discussed in the context of women.\u00a0 It is\u00a0suggested that these women take on the &#8220;male gaze,&#8221; looking at themselves\u00a0through an imaginary male judge.<\/p>\n<p>I found this ad in <em>Maxim<\/em> magazine.\u00a0 It encourages men to self-objectify by suggesting that they should think about how an imaginary female judge might evaluate their appearance (&#8220;She&#8217;s totally checking me out MILK Nutritional Shake&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6420\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/03-0022-743x1023.jpg\" alt=\"03-0022\" width=\"637\" height=\"893\" \/>It&#8217;s fascinating that a\u00a0magazine well-known for objectifying women also participates (at least in running this ad) in encouraging men to self-objectify.\u00a0 Without suggesting that women and men are equally objectified in American culture, I think it might be interesting to talk about the extent to which we live in an objectifying culture, period, and learn to self-objectify whether we are men or women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To self-objectify is to think of yourself as an object first and a subject second.\u00a0\u00a0People who self-objectify often consider their\u00a0appearance to be for others and work on their bodies and attractiveness in order to please\/not offend an imagined other.\u00a0\u00a0Self-objectification is usually discussed in the context of women.\u00a0 It is\u00a0suggested that these women take on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[279,98,2124,55,2087,2093],"class_list":["post-6417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-objectification","tag-capitalism","tag-foodagriculture","tag-gender","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-gender-objectification"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6417"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31341,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6417\/revisions\/31341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}