Quote Originally Posted by Telonius View Post
My own view of it: you need to consider three axioms.

Women are objects.
Men are objects.
Neither women nor men are just objects.

I really believe all three of these are true. In my experience, if you start denying any one of them, you start to run into troubles.
This is basically my view as well. I don't know if you'd call it objectification, but I tend to view people in the same way I view compilers; they're doing their best approximation at what they should, based what they're currently considering in light of how they've been taught to think. It's why I don't get outraged at people who treat other people as accessories; it's simply what they think will get them what they want (which, in my experience, is usually inflation of their ego, at least when this occurs at a local level).

So I suppose the ubiquity of objectification depends on what you define as objectification.