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Objectification means to make an object of something. If you already think a woman is no more than an object, you will see nothing wrong with treating her like one. If, on the other hand, you see women as persons — unrepeatable, incommunicable, body-soul selfhoods — then objectification is startlingly rude at best, dystopian horror at wo…

“Objectifying” a woman just means you think they’re attractive. Why the dumb word?

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“The meaning of fiction,” Flannery O’Connor contends, “is not abstract meaning but experienced meaning” (see her essay, “Writing Short Stories”)

As I explain in my book, BEAUTY & IMITATION, “our experience of the kind of showing that is a short story does not give us conceptual knowledge but a kind of “lived” know-how. The short story, in…

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