{"id":7261,"date":"2014-11-21T14:42:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T21:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=7261"},"modified":"2014-12-06T20:30:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T03:30:07","slug":"who-treats-women-like-sex-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/11\/21\/who-treats-women-like-sex-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Treats Women Like Sex Objects?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A minor league Canadian hockey team has come under fire for a bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2014\/11\/12\/cheeky-image-on-junior-hockey-teams-program-raises-eyebrows\" target=\"_blank\">tasteful<\/a> cheesecake:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7262\" title=\"cheesecake\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/cheesecake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/cheesecake.jpg 399w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/cheesecake-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;There is also not a lot of enthusiasm for the cover at Haldimand-Norfolk Women&#8217;s Services in Simcoe. Executive director Jane Scheel says the cover is a classic case of a male-dominated organization dehumanizing women by reducing them to sex objects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;&#8216;If someone is an object, you don&#8217;t have to treat them like a human being,&#8217; Scheel said. &#8216;When a woman is an object, it is a one-way relationship. You have a relationship with the object; the object doesn&#8217;t have a relationship with you.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Reduced to just an object.\u00a0 That retro-style pin-up is tasteful and respectful.\u00a0 Does it play upon the fact that the vast majority of men are unabashedly heterosexual?\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Does it reduce women to just a piece of meat?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Appreciating the feminine form does not mean relegating a woman to a mere physical object.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A gentleman will be attracted to an attractive lady, but will try to win her over and treat her with all the respect she deserves. If anything is evocative of that, a retro-style image harkening back to the time when gentlemen were not reviled certainly would be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ironic then, that these same type of feminists who declare a bit of harmless retro-cheesecake consider women who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/07\/31\/nicki_minajs_retroactive_feminism_salpart\/\" target=\"_blank\">explicitly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/5900611\/nicki-minaj-embraces-being-a-feminist-role-model\" target=\"_blank\">debases<\/a> themselves as nothing but a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racialicious.com\/2012\/02\/23\/nicki-minaj-the-flyest-feminist\/\" target=\"_blank\">sex<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.360nobs.com\/2014\/11\/nicki-minaj-joins-the-feminist-movement\/\" target=\"_blank\">object<\/a> to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autostraddle.com\/nicki-minajs-feminism-isnt-about-your-comfort-zone-on-anaconda-and-respectability-politics-251866\/\" target=\"_blank\">feminist icon<\/a>.\u00a0 Case in point, the skank Nicki Minaj:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LDZX4ooRsWs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;So, just who treats women like sex objects?\u00a0 Clearly feminists.\u00a0 <em>Other<\/em> women are just tools of the elite.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Feminists want men to be nothing more than \u03b2-male eunichs, with hyper-sexualized women being but salt in the wound to signal the dominance of the feminist elite over men.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Hat Tip<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blazingcatfur.ca\/2014\/11\/12\/minor-league-cheesecake-causes-bush-league-hysteria\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blazing Cat Fur<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Who Treats Women Like Sex Objects?\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"A minor league Canadian hockey team has come under fire for a bit of tasteful cheesecake\"><meta name=\"twitter:image:src\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/cheesecake.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A minor league Canadian hockey team has come under fire for a bit of tasteful cheesecake: &#8220;There is also not a lot of enthusiasm for the cover at Haldimand-Norfolk Women&#8217;s Services in Simcoe. 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