I previously noted that I would have extended Farley's description of the 'body as fetish object' to include all manner and sort of 'other' bodies. To be sure, he recognized in a footnote that his thesis could be applied in an across-the-board manner to all 'other' bodies. I have no doubt he limited his discourse due to law review publication guidelines and purposes. My thought is merely that, as fully descriptive as his work may be, had other bodies been included in his discourse a great deal more about U.S. society would have been revealed.
Reification and/or objectification seems to be the key issue at play. For so long as, and to the extent that we human beings focus upon the physical, we reveal that we are not as advanced or evolved as we like to believe ourselves to be.
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