Comments on: A Woman Living in a Man’s World (revision) https://digitalwriting.site/2026/04/11/she-cant-speak-or-think-shes-the-perfect-woman/ Experiments in Digital Content Fri, 08 May 2026 16:06:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: goosefeet22 https://digitalwriting.site/2026/04/11/she-cant-speak-or-think-shes-the-perfect-woman/#comment-779 Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:47:52 +0000 https://digitalwriting.site/?p=2130#comment-779 This post is so well done. Sometimes it feels hard to even express the ways that being a woman can minimize our existence. That video also stood out to me, because it really is a representation of all the ways women can be commodified, like you mention. There was a pit in my stomach watching the video because, for some reason, it feels like if we can’t even use our sexuality as a value holder, than what do we have? Obviously, this idea comes from deeply ingrained misogynist beliefs imbued upon generations of women, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is one of the few things women have been able to leverage as “power.” There is something beyond unsettling about the ways that men are able to see sex and not a person, and how even though that has been an issue for quite a long time, it is becoming more dangerous and more separated from reality than ever before.

]]> By: LKSOC1004 https://digitalwriting.site/2026/04/11/she-cant-speak-or-think-shes-the-perfect-woman/#comment-733 Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:00:06 +0000 https://digitalwriting.site/?p=2130#comment-733 To expand on this idea, I think that Marx does has a good summation of misogyny and patriarchy in capitalist contexts. Marx makes the distinction between an object and a commodity where an object has a use value i.e., it helps us do something and a commodity has both a use value and an exchange value. A commodity has a dual purpose or dual character. I would say that women can certainly be objectified, but that we also see the commodification of women as a product or service. Women are treated first as objects, then are exchanged for some market value as a commodity as well.

What I’m getting at here is that the AI model very much replicates the commodification of women in other modelling or beauty-related contexts. They’re sold in exchange for profit, for the expanse of capital. The striking difference with the AI model is that it appears to be a distilled and concentrated version of this where the very essence of a woman (at least the conventionally accepted apparent identity of a woman) is sold at a market value instead of a real person.

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