Power, Agency, and Subjectification – Jenneral HQ 🌠

Women, famously, are objectified sometimes. Objectification renders us passive and helpless in our life stories; things are done to us or happen to us, and a...

Power, Agency, and Subjectification – Jenneral HQ 🌠 Power, Agency, and Subjectification 06 May, 2026 Women, famously, are objectified sometimes. Objectification renders us passive and helpless in our life stories; things are done to us or happen to us, and all our actions are futile because we are weak against the forces of the world. And on top of that we are sometimes treated like slot machines for sex. Contrast this with the subjectification of men, and of the highly agentic. People who are subjectified don't get to be broken by the world. If they are churlish or unpleasant or abusive, it

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