waveman comments on A Rationalist's Account of Objectification? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: waveman 07 August 2016 01:28:40AM 0 points [-]

Objectification is a well-defined and experimentally verified to exist phenomenon by which women in western society at least judge themselves by the impression others have of their physical bodies...

You seem to be saying that objectification is something women do to themselves. Is this your intention?

Comment author: Philip_W 09 September 2016 05:50:35PM 0 points [-]

People don't have that amount of fine control over their own psychology. Depression isn't something people 'do to themselves' either, at least not with the common implications of that phrase.

Also, this was a minimal definition based on a quick search of relevant literature for demonstrated effects, as I intended to indicate with "at least". Effects of objectification in the perpetrator are harder to disentangle.