“After my first Sports Illustrated cover, I felt terrible about myself for a solid month. Every single guy I met was either married or about to be married, and I felt like I was their bachelor present or something. I’m not a toy, I’m a human. I’m not here to be used.” -Kate Upton, Elle

This seems like a pretty innocuous statement to me, primarily because there is nothing in there that strikes me as controversial or wrong.  A human being desiring to be treated as such seems… well, the only reason you might mock that is because in a perfect world you shouldn’t point it out.  It’s like when my friend explains how a microwave works and says, “First you open the door then you put the stuff in”.  It’s like, no shit Sherlock, I’ve managed to not drown myself drinking water thus far so I figured out not to punch my hand through the fucking microwave door.  So that is why you could mock this.  No duh, Kate, you’re a human being and thus should be treated as such.  But, no surprise, this is not how the internet is reacting.  I mean, some of it might be but the reason this line is getting so much attention is because of the legions of people who think she has no valid point.  I just read in the Kate Upton tag the very condescending, “Oh, Honey, if you act like a slut you’re going to be treated like a slut”.  To you I say go to hell.  Slut shaming aside, which is a while thing I am not equipped to talk about right now, but it’s also bullshit.  However, looking good is not an invitation for sex.  There is nothing in what she has done that indicates she is looking for sex.  As a matter of fact she has stated quite the opposite.  If you treat her otherwise what you are actually doing is project your desires and skewed perspectives onto her.  See, assholes hide behind the shield of “personal accountability”.  When they are an asshole to you they will claim it’s because of something you did.  Except that’s not true.  If they are being an asshole only they can do something about it.  See that’s true personal accountability, only you are responsible for your own actions, no one else is, no matter how badly you want to blame someone else.  Look, I don’t know what to tell you, everyone should have women in their life they care about more than life itself.  A mother, an aunt, a niece, a child.  Someone.  None of this should be acceptable to you, that someone you love has to live in a world where they are held accountable for the actions and thoughts of assholes simply because they have breasts.  Look up, Kate Upton’s breasts are in all these pictures.  It’s not an accident.  They are lovely.  There is nothing about them that makes it ok to treat her like shit.  She is a model, a large part of her job is to look lovely, clearly she’s successful at it, the entire point is to sell you whatever it is her employer is selling, even if sometimes that’s her beauty.  There is nothing in that work that makes he less than human or makes it ok for you to treat her as such.  She is not a bad person because of your desires and her desire to be treated as human is not a threat to you.  Now generalize that, there is nothing about a woman’s breasts or how much of them that you can see that makes it ok to treat them like shit.  A woman being treated well does not demean or marginalize you.  If you feel it does you need to examine your sense of privilege.  The scary thing is I am running a skeevy blog about objectifying women, I should not be the one telling you this.  But you’re going to see this because you’re clearly trolling the Kate Upton tag looking to insult her.  Knock your self out but go ahead and ask yourself why you so badly want to say a woman deserves poor treatment.  I mean, you can keep lying to everyone but you can’t really lie to yourself forever.  You’re sad and today I am here to defend Kate Upton.  Sorry for the rambling huffy post guys but stuff like this pisses me off.  Whatever, I’m done but while I am at it I am also here to say today I want to fuck Kate Upton.