"Men's violence against women takes many forms, including physical, emotional, financial, and sexual. Men rely on a host of tactics and strategies to both enact and explain their behavior. These include denial, blaming, minimization, rationalization, seeing oneself as the victim, objectification, etc. There are a variety of reasons why men objectify women, chief among them being entitlement and a social context of tolerance for this behavior."
"Men's objectification can take many forms. For example, having served as a counselor for violent men, I remember a man disclosing that he punched his pregnant wife everywhere but her abdominal area, justifying this by saying, "I wouldn't hit her in her belly because the baby is a person." In another example, a man in a counseling group shared that the only way he could climax was if he spread pornographic images of other women around his wife."
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, combining autumn's beauty with attention to a darker social problem. Men's violence against women appears in physical, emotional, financial, and sexual forms. Perpetrators use tactics such as denial, blaming, minimization, rationalization, self-victimization, and objectification to enact and explain abusive behavior. Objectification treats people as objects—less worthy, less valuable, and less human—permitting mistreatment, disposal, and replacement. Entitlement and a socially tolerant context fuel objectification. Counseling examples show objectification through selective violence and sexual humiliation. Dehumanization through objectification facilitates control and makes abuse easier to carry out.
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