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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of objectify.
  • adjective Treated as an object

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Examples

  • The report argues convincingly that the lads mags such as Zoo and Nuts that contain objectified and degrading images of women, should be seen as a teenage magazine for boys.

    2009 November « My Political Ramblings… 2009

  • More generally, he adds that the action of the body is nothing but the act of Will objectified, that is, translated into perception.

    Arthur Schopenhauer Wicks, Robert 2007

  • Lost in all this is the historical fact that the mechanistic 'objectified' concept of matter that we get from the Early Moderns is not a scientific discovery, but a brute philosophical assertion.

    September 13th, 2009 m_francis 2009

  • So say a pair of psychologists trying to prove the feminist theory that the experience of being sexually "objectified" overburdens the female brain.

    A Pretty Dumb Hypothesis About Good Looks Eric Felten 2010

  • His comment about feeling "objectified" started the wheels turning in this devious head of mine.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • His comment about feeling "objectified" started the wheels turning in this devious head of mine.

    Reverse Sexism-How About a Little Male Objectification?? 2009

  • Let me also acknowledge what I trust should be obvious by now: That women are "objectified" by their looks.

    Geoffrey Dunn: She's Too Sexy?: Sarah Palin and Voodoo Social-Psychology 2009

  • It is interesting that you are repeatedly using the word "objectified".

    Carry-Over Thread 2007

  • It is interesting that you are repeatedly using the word "objectified".

    Carry-Over Thread 2007

  • "And male sexual response is necessarily symbolic and" objectified ", because all human thought is symbolic, and a woman's body is an object, not a holy vessel or a very complex puzzle, at least at a basic level."

    Snipr/SnipURL - Most interesting snipped URLs 2009

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