How do you define "objectification"?

Question

No dictionary links, please, just your own thoughts about what it means, how it occurs, and the possible negative effects (if any).

Answer 1

Reducing a person to their physical attributes instead of regarding them for a person with feelings.

Answer 2

A made up word used by  feminists to shame what men are interested in  while alllowing women to so called "objectify" men.You don't see these  feminists complain about  fantasizng  men in video  games or literature.Humans will be humans

Answer 3

I think it means seeing somebody as a category, or a statistic rather than seeing them as a person.   The most obvious example is seeing women as a possible partner for sex rather than a person