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Thu, 15 Jan 2026 02:44:47 GMT

I saw a video arguing that the protagonist of Black Souls is supposed to be a bad person even at 0 sin. He doesn't really care about any of these women; he just thinks they can fill the hole in his life. I disagreed with this take. His relationships are pretty shallow at first, but he bonds with some of them in their endings.

Black Souls 2 makes the protagonist more obviously transactional. He treats women as vending machines--currency goes in, sexual favors come out.

On the one hand, if the point of Black Souls really was supposed to be that the protagonist didn't care, then I clearly missed that. On the other hand, the blatancy of Black Souls 2 feels like it's objectifying women to make a point about how the protagonist objectifies women.

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Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:56:36 GMT

A lot of feminist critics take it for granted that “infantilization” and “objectification” are closely linked, but it’s worth noting how weird a combination that is. I mean, I wouldn’t want to have sex with an infant.

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Tue, 25 Oct 2022 23:21:15 GMT

I’m not sure “objectification” is the right term for what authors like Percival Everett do. The sexy women don’t get interiority or a clear sense of their motivations, but at the same time, they get all the decision-making. It’s a mystery what they’re deciding based on, without clear motivations, but they still get to initiate and control the relationships, while the men are portrayed as completely helpless and incapable of choosing not to have sex when offered.

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Sat, 12 Mar 2022 02:14:08 GMT

Maybe what really makes objectification is the fear of women’s nipples. Hot shirtless guy has nothing to hide. Hot shirtless girl still has her nipples hidden, so it feels like you’re invited to uncover the mystery.

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Objectification in hentai

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 05:37:48 GMT

By recommendation from Oligopsony, I read Martha Nussbaum's Objectification. I've been thinking about how to apply it in the context of hentai manga.

Easy: monster rapes helpless woman. The woman is treated as a tool, as lacking autonomy, as violable, etc.

Medium: first-time hentai, ex. Miyakowasure no Kimi. In a typical presentation, both parties are interested in sex and choose to pleasure each other. Neither owns the other, and neither would interchange the other with someone else. If it's het, then usually the girl gets more visual representation, while the guy is represented more in terms of how much pleasure he brings to the girl. But does that in and of itself violate the instrumentality principle? Who is being objectified, if anyone?

Hard: hardcore femdom for a male audience, ex. Tiny Evil 3. (Don't ask how I have a link to that.) The man is fungible, and in some senses disposable. He's treated as a tool to bring pleasure to the woman, with no autonomy of his own. In some stories, the woman owns him and straight-up violates him. But so much of the visual focus is on the physical attractiveness of the woman's body, so who is being objectified here?

Bonus questions:

Monster rape where the woman is in full control and is stringing the monster along, ex. Inran Elf Haha to Roper. Does this mean the monster is being objectified, even though the monster itself is treating the woman like an object?

Shishunki Poolside has more of an emphasis on the physical parts of the participants, as well as their play with active/passive gender roles. How do we evaluate the objectification occurring here?

Watashi to Sensei grotesquely reduces characters to their sexual parts as a form of liberation/unsubtle metaphor for realizing you're a lesbian. How do we evaluate the objectification here?

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