I hear you Ellen! I have heard many similar conversations in my lifetime! I am embarrased to admit that for a while the approach I took was, if you can't beat em, join em. But that wasn't me and I didn't like objectifying men.
Funnily enough, if I did objectify men, the men would call me out "We aren't objects" hmmmm, then they would go back to objectifying women. There are so many double standards in this area.
I really appreciated this piece! :-)