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A couple of days ago, when I was writing the address of my dojo's website onto the pavement with chalk (with the aim of drawing attention to martial arts, especially to aikido), a little kid was coming by with his mother. As he saw what I was doing he asked his mother what I was writing there. After having received the answer from her, he immediately asked her mother "What is aikido?" I was curious about what people not doing martial arts might know about aikido so I waited patiently until the woman said something.

Objectification is something that people have investigated recently in a scientific way, and Zolley has also written a post about it in connection with a recent scientific study. The following paragrapsh contain my own personal thoughts about the issue of objectification.

The following post doesn't start like a usual Christmas post, but believe me I will get there, too.

We have watched a couple of films recently that were about some conspiracy theories. I call them conspiracy theories because the 'proofs' the Zeitgeist movies come up with are hard to verify, or others have 'proved' the opposite of the statements in the movie (especially about Christianity). It's not really the alleged non-existence of Jesus Christ or the inside-job theory of 911 that I want to write about but there is one particular idea in both films (said clearly in the second) that I think is important to mention, even (and particularly) in an aikido blog, and particularly at Christmas.