Chris Pratt on equality: ‘not objectify women less, but objectify men as often’

Chris Pratt

Chris Pratt is still promoting the enormously successful Jurassic World. He’s probably feeling desperate for a vacation but powering through interviews in England. Pratt spoke with Radio 4’s Front Row program (via Yahoo!). Chris talks about being objectified for his (sort of) newly ripped body. Dude lets the world know he’s fine with “using it to my advantage” because women have been doing it for ages. Oh boy:

Is being ripped an acting prerequisite now? “Never in a calculated way, but in hindsight, yeah. It was a huge part of how my career has shifted is based on the way that I look, on the way that I’ve shaped my body to look.”

On being “totally objectified”: “I think it’s OK, I don’t feel appalled by it. I think it’s appalling that for a long time only women were objectified, but I think if we really want to advocate for equality, it’s important to even things out. Not objectify women less, but objectify men just as often as we objectify women. There are a lot of women who got careers out of it, and I’m using it to my advantage. And at the end of the day, our bodies are objects. We’re just big bags of flesh and blood and meat and organs that God gives us to drive around.”

[From Yahoo! UK]

Sigh. Should Pratt whip out his pre-written apology? It’s fine if Pratt enjoys being objectified because that’s his choice. We already know the dude enjoys surprising people with nudity, which is already sketchball all by itself. His “not objectify women less” statement is downright bizarre. Pratt’s gleefully deciding everyone should be objectified, and it’s a little unsettling. Welcoming objectification is completely different than having it forced upon you. Pratt doesn’t know what it feels like to hear threatening catcalls and fear for safety while walking down the street. He just doesn’t understand at all.

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  1. Kiddo says:

    Translation: I lost a ton of weight and exercised, I like being considered a sex symbol.

    • blue marie says:

      Ha, I’m gonna need to translate all of his upcoming interviews Kiddo.

      • Kiddo says:

        BLUE MARIE!

        I’ll have to make up an app called ‘Frat boy/jock filter’ which automatically transcribes the true intent of words uttered.

      • Abbott says:

        Kiddo speaks fluent Pratt.

        *raptor clicker*

      • Esmom says:

        Ooh, I like this. Here’s another gem from last week for you, Kiddo: “I have a great deal of respect for the animals that I kill, and I feel remorse and all of the emotions that come with it.”

    • Naddie says:

      Or: I always wanted to be one of the hot guys, now I am! (high school feelings)

    • Kiddo says:

      Esmom, you forgot the part where he initially says he kills merely for fun.
      Filter spits out: ‘oxymoron’, a person who has had an activated hydrogen peroxide brain wash and rendered a moron, thereby is unable to make a word or a sentence that doesn’t conflict with itself.

    • Don't kill me I'm French says:

      +1

      In more I think that the actors are as objectified as the actresses.How many shirtless scenes For the guys ? Many
      Many actors had or have a career thank for their bodies ( Matthew McConaughey ,Channing Tatum or Lisa Bonet’s husband for example)
      How many A list actors are not attractive? Any

  2. Beth No. 2 says:

    Badly worded response perhaps, but I took his remark to mean girls can coo and lust over male actors in movies for silly fun, which most of us do (?) including on this site. Not that he welcomes having women being threatened on cat-called on the streets.

    I don’t know this guy well, is there anything in his history to suggest he’s a sexist arsehole?

    • Lake Mom says:

      That’s how I took it as well.

    • Mila says:

      “girls can coo and lust over male actors in movies for silly fun, which most of us do”

      and what is that going to do to the average Joe? men are already catching up on body image issues (i thnk in England 80% of men admitting having them) and i dont see how it helps anyone when we worship people simply for being born good looking. all it does it make less “perfect” people loath themselves.
      what we need is more average, talented people on tv and in cinema and less the worship of unheathly and unreachable beauty standards.

      i think this isnt often adressed, we talk about Pr0n and the pressure it has on women, but it also has on men with growing penis surgery numbers and steriod abuse. i dont think men constantly hearing how hot certain movie actors are and how their wives spent considerable amount of time lusting after them and openly declaring “i would have an affair with that hot guy” will lead to anything great. i mean we are angry when men do it but do the exact same thing to them in our every day lives.

      • Beth No. 2 says:

        The body image problems you mentioned are real and I don’t want to sound dismissive. But I do think there can be a sensible middle ground between cooing and lusting over movie stars for silly fun, and complete worship of unhealthy body standards as you put it. I think Pratt is good-looking and I like him in fluffy popcorn movies like Jurassic World and Guardians, but this doesn’t mean I enforce these beauty standards on real-world partners and I completely reject the notion that one’s self-worth is tied solely to one’s looks. Plus, expressing appreciation for a male actor’s physique doesn’t have to mean it is to the abnegation of talent – besides his looks, I also think Pratt is funny and charismatic onscreen. Take another handsome actor but one with no allure or acting chops (IMO) like Henry Cavill, and I’m like cold fish. Likewise, good actors like James McAvoy and Dombnall Gleeson are no Adonises, but they are hugely attractive to me.

        To add, if a wife openly flaunts the fact that she wants an affair with a hot guy (and is not being factitious), I’d suggest the husband realises he married an arse and the problem lies with her, not him.

      • Otaku Fairy says:

        @Beth No. 2: “…but this doesn’t mean I enforce these beauty standards on real-world partners, and I completely reject the notion that one’s self-worth is tied solely to one’s looks. Plus, expressing appreciation for a male actor’s physique doesn’t have to mean it is to the abnegation of his talent.”

        Yes! That’s a near perfect explanation of the difference between merely finding someone sexy vs. actually objectifying them.

      • Gretchen says:

        Yes, exactly Beth no. 2 and Otaku Fairy

        There is a difference between looking lustfully at someone and objectifying them. You can find someone incredibly sexy whilst still fully accepting their humanity, right to bodily autonomy and respecting their physical boundaries etc. I don’t think objectifying people is EVER a positive thing, no one wants to be treated as a dehumanized object void of feelings, needs or desires (other than those projected onto them).

        I seem to recall Cameron Diaz once saying something along the lines of ‘it’s good to be objectified’, I think (well, I hope), she and Pratt are confusing meanings. Although I guess it wouldn’t be totally out there for Hollywood types to be down with the commodification of human beings.

    • Linn says:

      He made fun of the people who where offended at Chis Evans and Jeremy Renner running around calling Black Widow a slut and and those who don’t appreciate him running around showing his junk.

      If this makes him a sexist arsehole in your book, than yes he is one.

      • Pablo says:

        No, he didn’t. He made fun of outrage culture in general, and people who love being outraged decided that he was defending Evans and Renner.

    • Meaghan says:

      I took it as a joke. People can’t joke around in interviews about anything without people getting on their high horses.

      • Shambles says:

        Maybe it was a joke, but it’s okay to say that it was a joke made in bad taste. I don’t find it funny, because I don’t enjoy having to feel unsafe simply for being a woman. I don’t find humor in the concept of feeling threatened just by being in a room with men because they don’t know how scary it is to be looked at like you’re something to eat. Not all jokes are funny, and not everything automatically gets a pass because it’s spoken with humor.

      • Melanine says:

        I agree @Meaghan. The hand-wringing and pearl-clutching and faux social-justice-warrioring is tiresome now. I worked in DV for a long time and campaigned to renew VAWA, and getting genuine support IRL from people was so freaking hard! If people got as outraged and active IRL over real issues that could actually have a positive and beneficial impact on real women’s lives as they do online over dumb sh*t celebrities say (probably in jest) about equality or over jokes dumb celebs make about fictional female characters, things would change so much faster! Ironically, some of the same people had nothing but bad to say about Zoe Saldana because she deigned to ask her employer to pay for her childcare, and she had the audacity to tell the media how they initially said no (common response: she’s rich, she can afford her own damn nanny! #feminism)

        This PC crap is actually a hindrance, as all it does is make people worry about not sounding like a sexist / racist / whateverist pig, rather than make them worry about not actually being a sexist / racist / whateverist pig. The latter is what creates change.

      • lou says:

        This x1000, Melanine. Outrage culture is getting ridiculous. Celebrities are just people. They’re not perfect. We sit here on our comment thread criticising them for everything they say that’s even slightly “wrong”- sounding, and then think we’ve done our jobs. It’s so tiresome.

    • Viv says:

      I think it was pretty clearly a joke, or just him trying not to take himself so seriously.

      I hope he disappears after this movie for awhile because the backlash is coming for him. We really do build our stars up to watch them burn, and he’s reached his peak popularity now.

      • suziekew says:

        He deserves the backlash. Anyone who kills animals for enjoyment and then say he has respect for them while killing said animal is a POS human. He doesn’t deserve the adulation or success he is receiving. But, there is karma and Chris Pratt will experience it one day.

      • lou says:

        Suzie: Some people hunt. Get over it. It doesn’t automatically make them a bad person. I don’t hunt, but I’ve got friends who hunt pests like deer in our area. Yeah, they do it for fun. They usually eat the creatures too.

        I think that’s much better than buying pre-packaged pieces of battery chicken from the supermarket. Suzie, have you ever eaten an animal? How are you any better than the person who kills it? If you can honestly say you’ve never eaten an animal, then good for you, but I bet you’ve eaten a banana imported from a country that pays pretty terrible wages and mistreats workers. You’re not perfect, so don’t get on a high horse.

        I’m so tired of people deciding that people who do something like hunting are automatically terrible people. They’re not. You don’t have to like them, but don’t say they’re POS. That’s simplistic and obnoxious, and yes, hypocritical.

        I agree with Viv, people get really wound up about light comments and jokes now.

  3. Mila says:

    equality does not mean to meet the lowest common denominator. i dont want to see women becoming even more like frat boys.

    • Kiddo says:

      Yeah, also, even all things being equal in objectification, the power dynamic in terms of physical strength and statistics in violent sexual crimes is not likely to shift based on increased lusting of male screen stars. Not to mention the the power dynamic skewed toward higher legislative representation of men, etc., to their advantage.

      It was a toss away comment about his own ego being satisfied, without an enormous amount of thought to larger issues. But I assume it was also sort of a joke.

    • Otaku Fairy says:

      It doesn’t have to be that way. We can encourage a society where men and women are both able to be sexy and admire others’ sexiness while still respecting everyone’s boundaries and being held accountable for all of their own behavior.

      @Kiddo: I agree that it won’t solve those other issues, but I still think aiming for that kind of society is a good goal.

      • MoochieMom says:

        +100000 Growing up I never understood why if I thought a guy was nice looking I had to be in love with him and this was in MIDDLE SCHOOL.

  4. Moxie Remon says:

    I knew he was a douche behind all that fat.

    • Miss M says:

      In his defense, he apologized in advance for the dumb things he would say during Jurassic Park press tour. LOL

      I have never liked to be objectified. But I may be in the minority.

      • Justagirl says:

        Apologizing in advance is definitely a classic ‘Hey I’m a regular good guy’-douche move. I’ve known a few. That’s their smoke & mirrors style. Plus his wife used to have such vibrancy and she often looks strained, I don’t think he’s easy to live with despite all the fun laughs.

      • HEJ says:

        Instead of apologising for the dumb stuff you’re going to say why just try not to say so dumb stuff.

  5. embertine says:

    Yeah, I’m sure him feeling sexy because he lost of bit of weight and women are cooing about him on the internet is totally the same as having been raised from birth in the belief that your only value is to be pretty. Pratt by name, pratt by nature.

    • Meaghan says:

      @embertine I don’t know the people you know but I don’t know a single woman who was raised to think their only value is to be pretty. Not one. I don’t know where you were raised that this is the reality of your world.

    • ORLY says:

      So basically, Kit Harrington should shut up for saying he hates being objectified, and Chris Pratt should shut up for saying we should objectify more…

  6. Abbott says:

    I’ve hit Peak Pratt.

  7. Jbap says:

    This is a fairly harmless joke – give the guy a break, he’s probably reaching the end of the barrel in terms of things to say in interviews! Having said that, if someone like J-Law or Kristen Stewart said something equivalent, half the Internet would be on their backs in a moment.

    • jwq says:

      I dislike both Lawrence and Stewart, but a woman saying that men should be objectified like women are is probably saying it because she’ s exhausted and tired that we are always considered either stupid walking racks or too ugly to be even acknowledged.

      That said, I think Pratt is just too dumb to even realize that his stupid jokes, this included, can have unfortunate implications and backlash. Not only he believes his own hype and thinks that everyone loves him because he’ s just soooooooooooo adorable, but he simply doesn’ t have the mental capacity to understand that bragging about having fun killing animals, or treating objectification as a good thing might piss (lots of) people off.

      I’ m not excusing, him, though, and I am not going to shed tears of sympathy over a self-entitled celebrity who acts like apologizing in advance for the stupid things he might say means that we shouldn’ t be complaining because, hey: he already apologized!

    • MrsB says:

      I agree @JBap. I would really like to hear the interview to hear his tone. I would bet it was said in a sarcastic and joking manner. Often times, sarcasm doesn’t read well in print.

    • Shambles says:

      As said above, just because something is meant to be a joke doesn’t automatically make it okay. Personally, I don’t think the implications of his joke are all that harmless, because he’s never experienced the scary side of objectification. He’s only reaped the benefits, so far. He’s never known how frightening it is to be looked at like a piece of meat by someone who has the ability to physically overpower you. For now, he’s making money off of being objectified, so it’s fine. That grates on me.

      • MrsB says:

        I get where you’re coming from @Shambles, I do, but I don’t think he was speaking about the general population. To me, it seems he was referring specifically to Hollywood. Most actresses want to be objectified and agree to it every time they pose for a magazine half dressed and 10 lbs of makeup on. Not criticizing anyone for doing this at all, but it’s a fact of life.

        Also, I’m pretty sure he was being sarcastic. Which is different than making a joke about it. Could be that he thinks the exact opposite of what he said, which is how sarcasm is used.

      • Shambles says:

        Yeah, if I could hear the way he said it I’m sure I would pick up on the sarcasm. Objectification of women really hits a nerve with me, so I was pretty ready to be upset about it. But if you look at it within the context of Hollywood and only Hollywood, like you said, it makes more sense.

      • Gretchen says:

        @Mrs B, Hollywood is a different beast but I wouldn’t go so far as to say that actresses want to objectified and consent to it in the form of scantily clad photo shoots. Wanting to be desirable or realising that being sexually desirable can be useful in building a career as an actress isn’t the same as thing as not wanting to be seen or treated like a person. Objectification includes the denial of ones humanity. I mentioned this up-thread, but I do think people often mistake the meaning of objectified as something more akin to ‘sexy’.

        An actress may be fully cognisant of the fact that she will be objectified by the men hiring her, the audience watching her and the media covering her, and accept that as the nature of celebrity, but accepting the crappy and even unhealthy parts of your job isn’t the same as enjoying or wanting it.

      • suziekew says:

        “he’s never known how frightening it is to be looked at like a piece of meat by someone who has the physical ability to overpower you”

        I bet he knows …..everytime he looks in the eyes of the helpless animals he shoots.

  8. Esmom says:

    I’d like to think it’s exhaustion talking because he can’t really be serious about this. My love for Andy Dwyer is really on shaky ground at this point.

    • Timbuktu says:

      Ah, you’re doing way better than me, my love for Andy Dwyer is gone. Classic case of a nice fat guy turning skinny and douchey at the same time? Or was he always like that, just not given the podium to reveal it to a large audience before?

    • Kitten says:

      This guy is so moronic.

      Nothing he says surprises me at this point. You can love Andy Dwyer (P&R was an awesome show) but still see Pratt for the douchecanoe that he is.

    • OhDear says:

      I’ve always felt that he tries too hard to appeal to what he thinks women want.

    • Justagirl says:

      When I saw him walk onstage at the Oscars, look over at his presenting partner Felicity Jones moving slowly in a massive dress, and not even join her to walk together, he just motored on to the microphone alone….that said total douche. Hidden behind “funny guy” keep ’em laughing attitude.

      • Dara says:

        Thank you, @justagirl. I thought I was the only one that noticed that. I remember saying out loud, “offer you partner your arm you self-absorbed a$$!” I couldn’t believe he walked on and never looked back. Before that I was rooting for the guy, and was willing to chalk that moment up to a case of stage fright. Lately, not so much.

    • Jessica says:

      It was a tongue in cheek answer. A lot of it is lost without hearing the tone and what the original question was. You can listen to the original interview here: http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/19/chris-pratt-men-objectified-as-much-as-women,

      • Kitten says:

        I’m not basing my opinion about him solely on this one interview though. He has a history of sounding and acting like an idiot, starting with his penchant for killing animals.

        We tore Evans and Renner a new ahole for making a “joke” so sorry, this guys gets zero passes.

  9. kai says:

    What I always wonder is why don’t the journalists follow up with, e.g. “I don’t think you understand what ‘objectify’ means.” Same with all that bullsh-t feminism-talk a while ago. Are they too afraid to possibly offend the “talent” or is it just a cheap grab for some “controversial” quote? Because it isn’t controversial, it’s just dumb. Pratt has no idea what he’s talking about, but he strikes me as someone who might actually listen and learn. Stupid, all of it, all of them.

    • kai says:

      ETA: Looking at Anna Faris in recent years, I have a feeling she knows very well how painful and damaging and soul-destroying it can be to have the world constantly tell you your worth (and, in her case, her livelihood) hangs on your f-ckability, hangs on something that you know time will take away from you and there’s nothing you can do about it. For a while; I thought she looked unnaturally skinny/plastic and she always looks sad to me, for some reason. Maybe Pratt should talk to her before non-chalantly sharing his bullshit wisdom. I’m hoping for a good apology from this one.

    • Timbuktu says:

      Yeah, I have a feeling they won’t get more interviews if they come across as “difficult”. I mean, most of actors are not particularly smart and deep, they rely A LOT on a sympathetic audience to gush at their every joke just because they are famous. In a radio interview, the host embodies the audience.

    • Otaku Fairy says:

      “What I always wonder is why don’t the journalists follow up with, e.g., ‘I don’t think you understand what the word ‘objectify’ means.”

      Dictionary definitions of the word objectify are pretty clear-cut, and usually say something like “to treat someone as an object rather than a person,” (Merriam-Webster) or “degrade to the status of a mere object” (google). But the thing is that a lot of people don’t know the definition of the word and use it the wrong way.

  10. Maya says:

    Better stick with communicating with dinosaurs Chris as you don’t seem to have any clue as to how to communicate with humans.

    • Abbott says:

      LMAO

    • BearcatLawyer says:

      He sucked at communicating with dinosaurs as well. I show dogs as a hobby and saw the movie with a breeder friend. We joked afterwards that if people followed the clicker training he used, they would be raptor fodder!

      • Cait says:

        Haha. You really took those CGI dinos seriously, huh? So, you sat there and were like “LOLZ THAT’S NOT HOW YOU TRAIN DINOSAURS! I should know, I train dogs!”? Just a hunch, but I think if ANYONE tried to train a dinosaur, they’d be “raptor fodder”. 😉

      • Kiddo says:

        You have to think more about training birds.

  11. Babalon says:

    Welcome to White male privilege.

    Please enjoy your stay.

  12. HEJ says:

    Yeah well men have the privilege of not being ripped in a completely different way than women so of course he’s like it’s cool it was my choice.
    And objectifying men as much as women for equality is just weird. Like ending racism by making all skin coluors be equally mean to each other.

    • Mila says:

      “And objectifying men as much as women for equality is just weird. Like ending racism by making all skin coluors be equally mean to each other. ”

      yeah its like those “more female soldiers need to die in a war!!!”. how about less people dying in wars?

      • Kitten says:

        YES! I’d ask you to explain this to him but I’m enjoying watching him make an ass out of himself.f

  13. jen2 says:

    It is an ignorant comment and not well thought out. Since he lost so much weight, I think what he really wants is a cover like the one on EW with the Magic Mike guys. All abs and no brains. Not much to aspire to.

  14. MeloMelo says:

    I’m not a fan of CP, I don’t really like him.. But I think he was joking, we can’t really hear the tone here.

    • Lucy2 says:

      Yeah I’d really like to hear the tone. I could definitely see that being said in a sarcastic or joking manner.

      • Jessica says:

        I posted a link a few comments down. It was definitely said in a joking tone. He laughs a couple of times during his answer, and so does the interviewer.

        BTW, it should also be noted that he gave that answer as a direct respose to a question about whether he finds his objectification “appalling” since so many women complain about it”. It’s not like he decided to get up on a sopabox about it, he was directly asked to respond to that comparison.

        Honestly, while it could have been better worded, I found nothing wrong with his reply.

    • MoochieMom says:

      Given who he is married to, I will be it is sarcastic. Even it if wasn’t I still spit coffee out.

  15. grabbyhands says:

    Chris Pratt is really annoying to me (he seems like one of those brohams who needles and needles people and when they respond with irritation tells them they need to lighten up), but in his defense, what I think he is trying to say in a poorly worded, bonehead way is not so much that women SHOULD be objectified, but that guys shouldn’t freak out that women objectify men because women have been putting up with it since basically forever and that he recognizes that a lot of this attention is due to his new buff physicality and he accepts that.

    It is a bit simplified, since women not only are objectified, but treated as little more than tits and wombs on legs by large swaths of society in this world, but it was a radio interview that lasted minutes. I don’t think anyone is really looking to Chris Pratt for serious insight into this subject.

  16. Catelina says:

    The thing about Chris is that he comes off way better when ou can actually see and hear him talking, than when you’re just reading quotes from him and I think it’s because a lot of his humor gets lost without actually hearing the tone of his voice when he says things.

  17. Cait says:

    Meh. I took what he said as a joke. Pratt seems to be fluent in dumb sarcasm.

  18. senna says:

    I kind of know where he’s coming from, but he needs a crash course on feminism to really understand what he actually said. I’m a woman. I’ve recently lost 20 lbs. I’ve gone from being completely invisible on the streets to an object – but not an approved sex object, just one that’s confusingly on the brink of an acceptable weight to be worthy of a longer stare than when I was heavier. I hate this. Yet it also made me feel unworthy to walk down the street behind a really hot woman when I was heavier and see how she got stared at, and see how invisible I was. It’s sort of a lose/lose but on one of the losing sides there’s tacit approval of your body. I don’t want that, yet I also hate being invisible at the same time.

    The difference between men being ogled and women being ogled is that no one reduces men to only their appearance at that particular moment. For those men on the street, the hot lady passing by is FOR them. for their eyes. She’s just a hot lady and will never be anything else to them. When a hot guy walks by a woman, it’s not like they can outwardly leer at him as if he’s just there for them. They could, but it would be considered “unfeminine.” Too aggressive, too forward, and it might make the man think badly of her. If a woman doesn’t like a man’s gaze, it’s considered her personal problem. Leering gazes are considered typical masculine behaviour, whether we approve of this or not.

    And we still construe beauty and sexuality as very important to women. Have you seen that stupid awful Dove commercial where women walk through doors labeled “average” or “beautiful?” When the women choose the beautiful door it’s presented as a triumph. I should not have to delude myself into thinking I am exceptionally beautiful to value myself. How about the recent article circulating that divided women movie stars into “skins/prims?” You’re either hot and overtly sexy, or attractive and demure as a woman in Hollywood. Can you even imagine male stars divided into “skins/prims?” Even Mr. Potato Tatum is allowed to be more than a sex symbol in his interviews though most of his career is based on that. (And, granted, upon being super charming).

    Being considered beautiful as a woman is seen as important, and for men it’s not that important. I don’t mind at all when men are presented for an overtly female gaze, because it doesn’t happen with the same frequency as women presented for the male gaze. But equality is not going to be achieved by some men saying they don’t mind being sex symbols.

  19. Jessica says:

    When you actually hear the radio interview, you can tell he’s being tongue in cheek about it. You can listen to it here: http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/19/chris-pratt-men-objectified-as-much-as-women

    Just because some sites like to use his name to get hits, and twist things to create more click-bait-y headlines, doesn’t mean it’s the accurate reading. He’s often towing the line between being sarcastic and funny and talking seriously. I think to read it as some douchy comment is taking his words out of context.

    • FingerBinger says:

      Chris Pratt isn’t that big of an actor. Sites don’t need to use him to get hits.

      • Jessica says:

        Then explain to me why every time he says or does anything nowadays, every site has a story about it? It’s not because he’s that interesting and fascinating to every news editor, it’s because his name gets clicks.

    • lucy2 says:

      Star of the biggest opening ever, and star of the 2nd biggest movie last year? He is a big actor now. If he’s not, I don’t know who is.

      Hearing the interview…I’d say it was half joking, half maybe not. I don’t know – probably not the smartest thing to say. All I do know is I would hate to be a celebrity in this day and age and have every comment analyzed to death and turned into a headline.

      • HEJ says:

        Yes I agree but most of the celebrities chose to be famous and people hanging on to their every word is what pays their mansions.
        Still I know what you mean I’ve said so many dumb things accidentaly that I didn’t mean and the thought of those words being documented forever when I just had a bad day.

  20. mytbean says:

    Pratt was a stripper in his pre-fluffy days so his take on objectification and how, when women use it to their advantage it can be profitable, does not surprise me at all.

    Also – objectification and being harassed (cat-called) on the street aren’t one and the same – I don’t think objectification is necessarily synonymous with disrespect. Sometimes people “make love” or adore someone and sometimes they just “have sex” or lust after their booties and to me objectification is the difference but it doesn’t make one better than the other for every one.

    Pratt is making the argument that it’s ok to objectify if the person being treated/viewed as an object is a willing and happy participant in the situation.

    • Kitten says:

      But it’s symptomatic of his male privilege to talk about how men being objectified is some great step towards equality. He’s speaking about objectification as if should not only be accepted, but embraced. Meanwhile, women who feel objectified day in and day out are sitting here saying “hey dude, it’s really not all that”.

      Look, I get that it was a throwaway comment, I get that it was a joke, but it doesn’t mean that he shouldn’t be called out on it.

      This is similar to the Renner/ Evans dumbass comment about Black Widow being a sl_t. Sure, it was a joke but the conversation it generated was still worth having IMO.

  21. GoodNamesAllTaken says:

    Let’s really go for equality and pay everyone the lowest wage a woman makes for any job. Let’s not beat women less, but beat men more. Let’s not go after dead-beat dads, let’s just stop supporting our children. I’m just sort of kidding, and I know that’s not what he meant, but he’s on my last nerve.

  22. Crikey, I must be losing my edge. I didn’t get offended, feel unsafe, get annoyed or come away with unrealistic body image issues after hearing any of that. Is it me?

    • Beth No. 2 says:

      Me too! Hold my hand and let’s cuddle.

      Takes notes: Male actor making dumb joke about female fans objectifying him equals him being dismissive of women who are physically threatened on the streets.

      *tries to solve complex quadratic equation; fails miserably*

  23. Micki says:

    I wanted to rage.
    Then I remembered how my lab group (all females) objectified one guest lecturer. On another occasion -the bartender and his behind in particular.
    I’ve seen enough women, who in an all-women group behave no better than men.
    If I point out that we raged over the same thing just last month, the answer would be :Meh, men do it always, so what?

  24. RobN says:

    There is a noticeable lack of tone here. My guess is that he said it with a tongue in cheek, sh*t eating grin.

    Must be scary knowing that anytime you try to have a little fun with an interview, it’s going to show up in written form imbued with all sorts of meaning that was never intended.

    You wonder why so many actors say absolutely nothing of any interest; this is it.

  25. Cindy says:

    Man, he really is a bimbo isn’t he?

  26. KB says:

    Omg, he was clearly talking about actors, not women walking down the street.

  27. GPSB says:

    Really over this guy.

  28. buzz says:

    Maybe Chris Pratt should stick to what his PR people tell him to say and leave it at that.

  29. impy says:

    someone like kit harrington speaks out and he gets crapped on every time by y’all, chris pratt goes the other way and SO BIZARRE

  30. EN says:

    I think people to objectify both genders, but how they objectify is different. I have some drop dead gorgeous people in my family and what I observed is that with handsome men the people stop and stare just the same. But with men nobody expects them to become a trophy to be acquired by someone with money.
    The woman are expected to use their beauty to make a good match and be taken care of. They are expected to use their looks as a bargaining chip.
    With men there is no such expectation. The men are still expected to make it on their own regardless of their looks. The only difference between them and an average looking guys is that they can date any girl they want.

  31. Me too says:

    Celebitchy should be renamed the uptight blog for over sensitive biatches. Seriously. Making a mountain out of a nonexistent mole hill is the MO around here. Am I the only one getting laid?? Cuz I think this place needs some good vibes.

  32. LaurieH says:

    Chris Pratt is a prat. How about this: how about not objectifying anyone based on their gender? That would be hard given the number of cheesecakes and beefcakes who choose to objectify themselves, thus giving tacit license for everyone to objectify everyone else – but whatever. How about treating each human being as oh…..I dunno….going out on a limb here…. and individual HUMAN BEING?

    • lou says:

      Who said he thinks everyone should be objectified? He’s clearly talking about actors.

  33. Josefa says:

    I’ve always hated this sort of mentality. We’re people, not objects. I don’t get why “objectification” has to be a thing. Why can’t you find someone attractive while still considering him/her your equal?

    I don’t want to live in a world where women behave like frat boys for the sake of equality.

  34. Nat says:

    This is the first post in awhile where my inner response was “oh sheesh, calm down.” I think the kneejerk reaction of automatically extrapolating someone’s comment to “women not feeling safe on the streets,” etc. does more harm than good for the cause. He was being silly in his statement and it was probably his 8th interview of the day. It’s harmless.