objectification (#meowtoo)

The conversation about feline bodies exists largely outside of us, while it is also directed at (and marketed to) us, and used to define and control us. The conversation about cats happens everywhere, publicly and privately. We are described and detailed, our faces and bodies analyzed and picked apart, our worth ascertained and ascribed based on the reduction of cathood to simple physical objectification. Our voices, our cathood, our potential, and our accomplishments are regularly minimized and muted.
— Ashley Purr, #MeowToo