How many do we look right through? We objectify in some way. We discount. And then what happens when we look kind of look at them instead of through them?
So I'll ask you for a little bit of social commentary, if that's OK. or they mostly just objectify women.
And a very interesting question is, who do we pay attention to? Who do we objectify ? Who becomes the "other" for us?
- Oh, great. Tell me more about Neovim. And it is purely an objectifying activity.
So one day, she said-- she's working on a sitcom script, and she wrote this character called Roger, who's modeled after me, who is an Asian bro who works out and drinks protein shakes and objectifies women-- I don't think she wrote about objectifying women-- but an Asian bro. But then I took the name Roger, but I added my own-- I turned him into a middle-aged uncle-type character, because I think I can play that character better.
So I'll ask you for a little bit of social commentary, if that's OK. So the film industry is going to keep doing that, like objectify women and perpetuate stereotypes.
But it wasn't until last summer that the city of Clovis was found in violation of that, because they were running films You know, and she could just object-- she objectified men the way men objectify women.
Peggy Orenstein: Um-hum. Kaveri Subrahmanyam: So we know that individuals who watch a lot of pornography have these attitudes as well. What we don't know is, is the preoccupation with sex causing their access to pornography or is it the reverse. So I think all of this objectify , what do you call it, what did you say? Peggy Orenstein: Is sexual entitlement -- Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Okay.
But I do find there to be some kind of optimism when I looks sideways, yeah. that there's a lot of bro talk that happens on Wall Street, where they're objectifying women and how does this impact women's careers.
that would have given the rhythm to the day. Time would have just been the medium in which your life unfolded, rather than something that you could sort of psychologically objectify and then be tormented by or try to dominate or feel hounded by.
Whatever we are aware of is not consciousness. Whatever we can see, or hear, or smell, or taste, or think of, or understand, or objectify in any way, or remember, none of it is consciousness.
Not there yet, but I'm better, no doubt. Ok? So and I think my friends are and people who try to, so, um, but that so that's the second the third step. It's like identify what emotions are arising, because when you name it, what happens when you name it, is you objectify it. When we objectify it, ok, when we don't objectify , do you know like when you get if you get like agitated or angry anxious, or depressed it's very interesting psychological, um, condition where we merge with the depression don't we? We merge with the anger. It's like
if you are it, you can't see yourself, ok? So obviously you are not the anger, but we're so confused. So we say I'm angry. For the degree of subjectivity by the way, there's more control. That's what we're looking for. So we objectify the disturbing emotions and by the way because I only have a short time, there are positive emotions too. The job is to uh, develop the positive emotions. Unfortunately for some reason the negative afflictive do
is unselfish, which is ethical, which is about non-harming, which is engaged in a process of constantly inviting us to deconstruct our fear and open up to the world in a way where we're in this beneficial, non-separate, non-objectifying relationship with so-called others, and to actually develop the capacity to expand