While watching a trailer to a video on advertisement's image of women the following statement is made:
It creates a climate where there is wide spread violence against women. I am not at all saying that an add like this directly causes violence, it's not that simple, but turning a human being into a thing is almost always the first step against justifying violence against that person. We see this with racism, we see this with homophobia, we see it with terrorism, it's always the same process. The person is dehumanized and violence then becomes inevitable.
Is there support in psychology that this is actually happening? That people being depicted as objects would cause others to commit violence against them?
