Do gay people objectify their partners as much as some heterosexual men tend to objectify their female partners?
I ask this, because it occurs to me that objectifying a person has a kind of dehumanizing quality to it, on some level, objectifying someone seems to me, like a temporary denial of the other persons sentience, and as we are aware that we our selves are sentient, I wonder if it’s harder to objectify a person of the same sex as much, on the account of them being slightly more similar to your self, therefore probably harder to think of as a thing.
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I can only speak for myself as 1 gay man, but I would say the answer to your question is yes. Gay men are just as guilty as heterosexual men of objectifying their partners in order to maintain some type of barrier between them. It’s a defense mechanism, in my opinion. It keeps people at a distance.
As 1 gay female, neither one of us objectifies the other. I see her and she sees me.
I don’t know since I’m striaght but I’m sure some of them do. You forgot to add that Women objectify men as well. Women aren’t angels.
Yeah…I’m pretty sure it doesn’t matter your gender or sexuality – we’ve all at one time or another…and probably pretty frequently said to ourselves “Yeah, I wanna hit that.”
So what exactly do we mean by “objectifying” our partner? I mean, I’ve said things like “I wanna hit that” too, but not about my partner, about a random hot guy I see maybe.
sexuality is patently objectifying. What are we saying? that somehow homosexuality is more sensitive, because of it’s political nature, i doubt it.
A sociology professor of mine told our class that there is a trend among male same-sex couples wherein the partner who makes more money is the more dominant partner where such a trend is not noticeable among female same-sex couples.
I think men in American society are taught much more rigid rules in regards to sexual control than women are. What I mean is that men are taught that they have to be in control and they have to maintain that control in very specific ways. In a same sex male couple, I feel as if the partners have to figure out a different way to determine who’s “on top” because they cannot rely on gender to be a determining factor.
I’m a little unsure of what you mean by objectification of one’s partner, but a more general objectification certainly occurs across genders and sexes.
Among gay men, I am actually more concerned about the willful objectification of self. That, though, is only a response to malicious stereotyping.
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