I've found myself to be more sensitive to the appearance of objectification lately, and especially so today.  I'm not at all sure why, since it wasn't a conscious decision like "Hey!  Let's be on the look-out for random treatment of people like objects with no further value than their rating as eye-candy!"

Apparently, it's on Hugo's mind as well.
snippets:
Far too many folks assume that the solution to a culture that primarily objectifies women is to create a culture in which men are also objectified. If there's equal opportunity ogling, then there's no problem.
and
In the minds of some, perhaps, being an "equal opportunity offender" is better than singling out one sex. But committing a second murder doesn't lessen the pain inflicted by the first; insulting first blacks and then Jews doesn't mean that the former should be any less enraged because they've been attacked by someone whose bigotry applies to all, not merely to some. And similarly, objectifying men doesn't lessen the offense of objectifying women.