• HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    She’s so pretty, I have to tell her how beautiful I think she looks or use the perfect pickup line so this beautiful woman will go on a date with me

    Is that not idolization more then objectification? Certainly, for some guys as with everything, it’s objectification but I cannot believe that a majority of men see the woman in that situation as a vagina and nothing else.

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      Is idolization not another form of putting women on a pedestal?

      The exact context that is provided in the comment you replied to?

      • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
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        5 days ago

        But like, you idolize human beings. Not objects. Alternatively you could say that you idol worship with gods and goddess. Neither of which seem negative.

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              An idol can also be an image or object of worship. The golden calf was built as an object of worship because moses took too long talking to god. The isrealites demanded a god be made for them, thus the cow, and it was a hollow substitute.

              I’m not taking sides in this but the calf was very much just an object made to be worshipped because everyone got super impatient.

              Not religious, just raised catholic.

              • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
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                It was also very much a god that was worshiped before they made the statue.

                There is a difference between idolization and idolitry.

                • Wren@lemmy.today
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                  If you’re talking about the bull god they worshipped in egypt, yeah that was a thing. I’m talking about the biblical allegory of the golden calf, which was just a object of worship and thus why one of the many definitions of ‘Idol’ is 'an object of worship.

        • ZDL@lazysoci.al
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          Idols are by definition inanimate objects used to represent something else.