Objectification

Alright my dear readers, here's another for you.
Yesterday I was thinking about this topic, it's one that I've thought about a lot and always find myself upset about. Not because I think the media is objectifying people, specifically women, as so many would have you believe, but because I think the objectification is bull shit.
My reasoning behind this is because of what objectification actually means. If you listened to feminists you would probably come to the belief that objectification stemmed or came about from sexualizing someone, and something that primarily effected women. What does objectification actually mean? It means viewing a person, female or male, as an object. A thing. Something inanimate and without a will of its own.
Now, why is this BS? Have you ever seen the Victoria's Secret commercials? Probably. If not go quickly look them up. They're pretty graphic. They are a mix of sexual appeal and desire. They are as close to nudity you're going to get on American prime time television. Now, here's another question. Did you find them sexually appealing or can you imagine that someone did? If so, you just disproved objectification.
You, or someone else found this women appealing. The point of the commercial is to tempt through sex and desire. You can't do that if they are nothing but objects in the view of the audience. Most people, to put it bluntly, are not sexually attracted to objects. It's called objectophilia and at least one study showed that those who had this sexual preference were within the autism scale. Even if they weren't, I have never met someone who was sexually attracted to say, a mirror. The closer I've ever come is someone's love of their car, but I don't thin they planned to have sex with it.
Objectification is a farce. The viewer of whatever advertising is not turning the person into an object. They're admiring their physical beauty, real or fake. They're fantasizing. Dreaming of what it would be like to be with that person. Wishing they could fuck them. That's not objectification. You know what is objectification? Slavery. Literally owning a person and seeing them as a tool is objectification, but that's only in the most extreme cases. Even those who have a slavery or BDSM fetish don't view their partners as objects, at least not completely. They might call them 'theirs' or claim they 'own' them', but that's for the power of it. Holding power over someone is arousing. And you can't hold power over an object. It's inanimate with no will of its own to dominate. They don't want to fuck an object. At least, this is what I assume, I have no personal experience with this sort of thing. (I really don't)
Objectification is not the problem when it comes to media and advertising. There are most certainly problems, but it's not people viewing others as object. If I see Jessica Alba in lingerie I don't stare at the picture because she is an object, but because she is very much a warm, living breathing human being that stirs something inside me called arousal or desire. That's what advertising is doing. That's how they pull in billions of dollars/euros/pounds a year. Not by turning people into things.
I apologize if this seemed a bit disorganized, putting thoughts to writing is sometimes a bit more difficult than it sounds. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed, and I look forward to hearing back from you. Have a fine day.