Objectification and vision: how images shape our early visual processes

Objectification involves treating someone (a subject) as a thing (an object). The role of images in perpetuating objectification has been discussed by feminist philosophers. However, the precise effect that have on an individual's visual system is seldom explored. Kathleen Stock’s work exception—she describes certain women causing viewers to develop objectifying ‘gestalt’ which then projected onto real-life women. she doesn’t specify level processing at occurs. In this paper, I propose can affect viewer's early system. will argue if viewer exposed lot depict sexual objects, bias their selection mechanisms way result seeing. This important contribution it incorporates empirical studies vision and findings from philosophy mind. It also examines some epistemic moral consequences occurring stage.