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Oh jesus, am I wearing my "objectify me" pin again?

You may or may  not have read [info]theferret 's Open Source Boobies Project manifesto, which for the purposes of this post will be referred to as "Public Domain Boobies" (tm [info]lnhammer ) since that is more or less what I take from it.  If you have already heard of it, and would like to read some soothing ranting, [info]the_red_shoes has a nice round-up post of reactions.

Interestingly, to me, my first reaction was to think of this post [info]commodorified linked me to the other day.  Obviously, there is a difference of both degree and proposed methodology, but it is fascinating to me that apparently there is a deeply felt conviction among some subset of men that the problem with today's society is that they do not have enough access to women's bodies.

(Also: because asking a Black woman if I can touch her hair is totally a healing experience for both of us, right?  (I don't mean to imply the experiences are equivalent, but is [info]theferret  completely tone deaf?))

For the record, my comment to theferret's post:cut for language )</blockquote>Usually after I fire off an angry comment like this I regret if five seconds later, but in this case?  Nope, other a bit of subject/verb agreement, I still mean it.