You melded definitions. The first one describes objectifying animals so as to treat them impersonally. Now, this is a wee bit of an improper usage, as they're hardly people to begin with. However, I figure it's easy to extrapolate to something useful. Hmm...
Frinst, people who objectify their pets have an easier time of debarking/declawing/abusing/abandoning them, since they are viewed as objects, not as living things with needs and the ability to feel pain.
"Rarely used in modern parapsychology, the popular usage of this term refers to a low-level form of telepathy wherein the empath appears to be aware of the emotional state of a distant person."
So if I were to objectify someone, I would be shutting off my empathy for that person, my emotional connection with that person, regardless of whether I know them that well. Objectification exists in all sorts of places - against women, against races, against animals, against technical service people (*ahem*), against other drivers, and so forth. It's when I fail to look at a person as another human being, and instead focus on one or two traits (asshole driver, idiot tech rep, la la la).
Look at objectifying women, for example. When a man objectified his wife (thinking a few decades back, here), he wouldn't take into account how she felt about things, what she needed and wanted, and so forth. He treated her like a housewife, not as a human being.
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Date: 2004-02-13 09:21 pm (UTC)Frinst, people who objectify their pets have an easier time of debarking/declawing/abusing/abandoning them, since they are viewed as objects, not as living things with needs and the ability to feel pain.
"Rarely used in modern parapsychology, the popular usage of this term refers to a low-level form of telepathy wherein the empath appears to be aware of the emotional state of a distant person."
So if I were to objectify someone, I would be shutting off my empathy for that person, my emotional connection with that person, regardless of whether I know them that well. Objectification exists in all sorts of places - against women, against races, against animals, against technical service people (*ahem*), against other drivers, and so forth. It's when I fail to look at a person as another human being, and instead focus on one or two traits (asshole driver, idiot tech rep, la la la).
Look at objectifying women, for example. When a man objectified his wife (thinking a few decades back, here), he wouldn't take into account how she felt about things, what she needed and wanted, and so forth. He treated her like a housewife, not as a human being.
And now I am ababble. Beg pardon!