The article by Matthew Hutson, Are You Looking at Me, tends to criticize certain practices including beauty fashion as well as pornography. He explains that such actions expose people’s nudity as they pursue to impress other people. He continues to indicate that “naked porn stars are also seen as having less competence…” That is an indication that nudity is usually perceived as a negative aspect especially when done in public. The article articulates that children that are under the age of sixteen years should be denied the chance to take part in activities that involve the body and fashion exposure. That is due to the fact that such events will eventually lead them to engage in sex. However, they should be encouraged to take their studies without interference. The author has used several techniques to bring out his theme including contrast, definition, and research among others. The author uses contrast, definition, and research to argue that viewing a person naked makes one more concerned about the person’s body rather than what is in their heads and objectification has become a major topic of discussion across the globe.
The author has used the definition in order to bring the reader to the light that there is a direct correlation between the perception of one’s cognitive competence and sensitivity of one’s emotions. The author of the article uses a unique approach to developing the theme. The author uses an approach that is in contrast to people’s popular belief. That is when people objectify, they don’t treat others as objects having any intelligence or being emotional. He tries to bring out the idea that people tend to perceive others as having less minded overall, although they possess a diverse type of mindset. According to the author, objectification can be regarded as dehumanization. In his use of objectification, he tries to suggest that there is no more than to “focus on the body.” That is a phenomenon that becomes as part of individual responsibility towards one’s view of the shirtless torso, looking at pornographic images and videos and thinking about an individual that is mentally deficient.
The author used contrast to explain that a person may not be satisfied with the definition given by the author concerning pornography. That is even through a facile phenomenological study that suggests that an individual’s response to pornography can be regarded as vastly diverse from his or her response to thoughts about another person’s heart rate or structure of the bones. Nussbaum’s quote found in the article states that “in a sexual context, men attribute imagined, though quite specific, mental states to women.” It is evident that men fail to do that to Michael throughout the experiment that has been discussed by Gray and other authors. One is left with the question as to what objectification is all about. That is used by the author in order to create suspense in the mind of the reader. It also introduces the question as to what is meant by focusing on the body. In other words, the author found the need to maintain secrecy. It seems that adding feminist literature could have worked in the analysis despite the fact that it is not in any agreement with the objectification concept.
From the use of research by the author, it can be deduced that people spend much of their time pondering minds of other individuals despite the fact that it is difficult to experience the same in a direct way. It is also a suggestion that whenever people get it right then it only becomes a mental construct. The author tries to indicate that in most cases, people guess all that other people think or feel. However, sometimes people get it all right and sometimes they don’t get it right. Going by the fact that people will not know, they depend on clues or hints that are sometimes learned or passed on. In other cases, stereotypes tend to take a vital role in assisting people to move across the world. In that case, getting it right about the stereotypes renders one intuitive and perceptive and getting them right renders on as an object. It can be perceived as an interesting article in the fact that the first glance to the article seems to be an extension of the common phrase that the clothes tend to make the man.
The author also uses examples in order to make it clear that in most cases seeing a naked individual makes one be more concerned about their body than they are concerned about all that is in their mind. A good example has been given as a relationship between a parent and a child. That happens when parents tell their children not to be dressed like parachutes since they will be treated like parachutes by those around them. The author seems to be scientifically proving something that whenever a naked person walks out to be seen by others, they look incompetent and will only trigger people’s minds to think about sex. It can be inferred that people are only delusional thinkers. It has come to years when critics of pornography continue to insist that the actions objectify women. Their thinking is founded on the premises that the more a woman exposes her body, then the more that the people are inclined to handle her as an object. That is brought clearly by using research findings explained by the author.
Research findings have also been used by the author to show that there is no secret that males tend to have lesser access to emotions than women do have on their feelings and emotions. Pornography has been greatly associated with the objectification of women. At such points, female are treated as items and things, socially dissociated items and receptacles that can be utilized and simply tossed aside. It has become evident that most men who engage in pornographic acts can be appalled in spite of the sudden response in case their wives or girlfriends walked into their bedrooms in fishnets, latex corsets, and combined stilettos. That is due to the fact that pornography is all about the emotional disconnection and not emotional association. Research findings explained by the author indicate that pornography has been proved to fill the space in emotional maturity. Pornography leads to emotional isolation and brings in an expectation of disconnection of socio-emotional into a transgender correlation and the common human desire for love and affection. Research has also indicated that pornography addiction is usually driven by emotional disconnection.
In conclusion, the author has used contrast, definition, research, and examples in order to bring out the correlation between pornography and people’s thoughts and feelings. The three techniques have proved that pornography is clearly a disconnection of a person’s emotions. Objectification has also been associated with pornography due to the fact that women that engage in pornography or who tend to expose their bodies to other people are regarded as objects that can be used and later ignored. At that point, women can be manipulated to act in any way that is desired and simply tossed on another side. Watching a naked individual makes one think all about their body rather than what they can do with their brains. Nudity should be discouraged by any means possible since it creates a disconnection of one’s emotional settings. Use of contrast has assisted the author to show that a nude person is perceived differently from who they really are. In other words, such people end up becoming mistaken identities whenever they are naked in pornographic films and images.
