I've had yahoo mail since the very early 2000s and to get to it I have to see the yahoo main page and news stories. They are an aggregator but generally their news is very far left and very pro lgbt/whatever the trendy racial narrative is (they turned off comments on articles because it was very clear that the majority of the readers were not aligned with they yahoo staff).
I saw the headline of an article about an interview with Millie Bobbie Brown from Stranger Things talking about being "sexualized" at a young age. What do they mean when they say sexualize? Is that like the male gaze where feminists screech if a man finds a woman attractive, but it's ok for them to go on and on about how hot certain guys are to them?
It is also confusing because some female singers will have songs glorifying slutty behavior and that is seen as empowering. So is sexualization another meaningless term like male gaze?
If she is calling out actual despicable behavior in Hollywood then great, but unfortunately so many terms have been watered down.
For understanding, you need empathy. Not sympathy necessarily, but the ability to see where others are coming from is quite important.
From our perspective, such a situation invokes immediate disgust and is alarming. Fairly incomprehensible. But this is not our perspective. It is the life and times of a child of Pedowood, as Hollywood has been known to be called in some circles.
You've seen the pictures and stories of child-sniffin' Joe Biden, if you've been around here any length of time. Has he raped any of those children? Of the ones in the memes, probably not. But there's no question they were treated sexually by him. Had been sexualized.
The term "sexualization" has become increasingly useless due to overuse, very true. It can mean anything from "drugged and conditioned into a sex slave" to "someone once ate one of my gummy bears I left out in a candy dish" (to reference a specific infamous incident).
Given the lack of meaning behind the word, you need to intuit it by context. Without the article itself and only a title, no idea what it could mean in that circumstance. But Hollywood very much likes Joe Biden and his habits, if those habits are emulated upon this actor, that's well within the general definitions.
Thanks. I’m aware of the creepy nature of Hollywood but like you said that term has become watered down due to overuse. Similar to when a woman on social media will say that she felt violated and it turns out that the “violation” was that a guy she thinks is ugly asked her on a date.