To paint a picture for the concept of “objectifying”:
We objectify animals all the time.
An example would we when I first brought a puppy into my house. My sister never liked “dogs”, so she never read too much into the new member of the house. All these years he was NOTHING to her but a furry thing that yapped and demanded food, sometimes cute but most of the time ignore-able. What depth? Just a dog.
Similar to how some girls would stuff a Chihuahua into their purse, treating them like a doll.
A well-publicized case of John Lennon’s murder was due to the murderer’s objectification of Lennon as a celebrity. “I feel that I see John Lennon now not as a celebrity. I did then. I saw him as a cardboard cutout on an album cover. I was very young and stupid, and you get caught up in the media and the records and the music. And now I’ve come to grips with the fact that John Lennon was a person. This has nothing to do with being a Beatle or a celebrity or famous.”