🧠 Your Masculinity Minute… Objectification ≠ sexualization. Objectification is treating a person like a thing or tool—valued for parts or use, not as a full human with thoughts, autonomy, and feelings. Sexualization is a specific kind of reduction: someone’s value is framed as their sexual appeal or behavior, often to meet narrow standards, sometimes imposed regardless of context or consent. They often overlap, but they’re not the same. A person can be objectified without sexual content (e.g.,