The Problem in a Common Counterargument against Women’s Alienated Sexuality In today’s social climate, finding arguments feminism is not a difficult task. Unfortunately, like many other social groups, the ideologies comprising the feminist movement are often misunderstood and then argued against in an improper context. One specific argument states that sexual objectification, the main support for Jagger’s argument that women become alienated from their own sexuality, does not exist and is simply attraction between the sexes. This common argument against women being alienated from their sexuality is wrong because it confuses the definition of attraction and objectification.
Argument: Women are Alienated from their Sexuality Alison Jaggars’s arguement about women’s alienation from their own sexuality is comprised of several pieces. At the core of her argument is the idea that women develop their sexuality around what men enjoy and expect rather than of their own accord (Jaggar 308). She begins by observing that women are often …show more content…
The first issue is common when complex issues are taken into the public sphere and results from a lack of understanding the core concepts that are central to the issue. This happens in other areas of advanced study as well such as chemistry. For example the term chemical has been adopted into everyday speak to mean a substance that is or contains unnatural or even dangerous components. However in the study of chemistry, the term chemical, “Anything made of matter… Any liquid, solid, gas. Any pure substance; any mixture” (Helmenstine), for example water, a table, or literally anything. In the same way sexual objectification in the study of sociology or social philosophy does not simply mean being seen as an object for sex, like the counterargument
Argument: Women are Alienated from their Sexuality Alison Jaggars’s arguement about women’s alienation from their own sexuality is comprised of several pieces. At the core of her argument is the idea that women develop their sexuality around what men enjoy and expect rather than of their own accord (Jaggar 308). She begins by observing that women are often …show more content…
The first issue is common when complex issues are taken into the public sphere and results from a lack of understanding the core concepts that are central to the issue. This happens in other areas of advanced study as well such as chemistry. For example the term chemical has been adopted into everyday speak to mean a substance that is or contains unnatural or even dangerous components. However in the study of chemistry, the term chemical, “Anything made of matter… Any liquid, solid, gas. Any pure substance; any mixture” (Helmenstine), for example water, a table, or literally anything. In the same way sexual objectification in the study of sociology or social philosophy does not simply mean being seen as an object for sex, like the counterargument