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I wonder if we will ever evolve to the point where we can talk about women online without some mad lad needing to sexualise them.
That is literally the opposite of evolution, we evolve to procreate that means more sex and sexualizing.
TLDR: if you don't sexualize women on the Internet you are an affront to evolution and a sin against nature.
Technically evolution is an emergent phenomenon from the reproduction of organisms. If you were to clone yourself with slight mutations it would still allow evolution to happen with zero inherent need for sex or sexuality whatsoever
Regardless of that, sexualizing women typically leads one to be an incel not a successfully mating male which means it would be the opposite of evolution by your reasoning.
It’s also interesting that your premise is generic but your conclusion is specific. “Sex is to be encouraged for evolution; that’s why we should sexualize women specifically” If you aren’t a misogynist, you might want to switch your TL;DR to “sexualize people” not specifically “women”
Sexualizing women does not “typically lead to being an incel”, that’s just crazy. Blaming women for failure to succeed in finding a sexual partner is what leads to that.
It’s not inherently bad to see people in a sexual light, what matters is when and how you act on those feelings, and respecting that people are also more than sexual objects.
You are confusing 'sexualizing' someone with finding them sexy. When people talk about sexualizing women they are referring to treating them as sexual objects.