"... It creates a climate in which there is widespread violence against women."

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4. "turning a human being into a thing is almost always the first step in justifying violence

against that person"

The military has long known this, dehumanization of the enemy is built in to the drills, marching songs, everything. Ultra machismo, including degradation of women is also a part of the military.

The KKK, the Nazis, every totalitarian government, every terrorist organization, every force for power and control over another group has known this and acted on it.

But in terms of the result of such dehumanization on women, even those who understand the process and stand for the rights of the oppressed have a hard time understanding that women ARE commodified, that it comprises a dehumanization and that the result is staring us in the face, in terms of increased violence against women.