Dehumanization

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"I know now, as I look down at what I have wrought here, that were I to think upon what I have done... what I have truly done... I would be struck mad. A deed such as this... the anguish would overwhelm, destroy me. So, First Officer Falm, it must be that there are no innocents in Agarheim... no mothers, no children, no people. Only traitors. Vile, cunning traitors, who deserve no less than the full brunt of our most Holy King's wrath." —Admiral, Planescape: Torment

Dehumanization is the denial of full humanity in others along with the cruelty and suffering that accompany it. A practical definition refers to it as the viewing and the treatment of other people as though they lack the mental capacities that are commonly attributed to humans. In this definition, every act or thought that regards a person as "less than" human is dehumanization.

Dehumanization is one form of incitement to genocide. It has also been used to justify war, judicial and extrajudicial killing, slavery, the confiscation of property, denial of suffrage and other rights, and to attack enemies or political opponents.

Examples of Dehumanization include:

Anime & Manga

• Astro King - Summoned as a Hero, I Turned Out to Be Low Rank, so I Made a Maid Harem, Japanese high schoolers are summoned to the world of Elysium to become Heroes and expected to help protect the kingdom and explore the dungeons. While it said only males can become Heroes, there are in fact Heroines, however the population of Elysium have a different purpose for the female Japanese students. They are made to wear collar which are imbued with magic to shackle their minds and eliminate free will. The women become closer to pets or dolls. Japanese women are prized for their beauty and used as breeding material by the male population.
• Disfarming has the horned Vroom, conquering Earth. They wiped most of the human species but create factory produced ones as human meat slows their aging. Also they market the human race as not just food but other alien races but humans as sex toys.
• Drifters, the Black King's army is developing a civilization where humans are turned into livestock to be used as food and labor. Slaves have their lips sewn shut and even the monsters in the army are encouraged to salvaged human bodies to exploit them as a resource for blood, flesh, hair, skin, etc. which will be used a drink, food, rope and paper.
• Fairy Tail, has Natsu and Lisanna being caged in Tartaros' HQ, stripped naked as the demons view humans as nothing more than animals.
• Human Ranch, has an alternate world where elves see human beings as food. Their meat is a delicacy and so they made a deal with the Japanese government for supply of human teenagers to use them as livestock.
• Isekai Hitokko Doubutsuen, has a world ruled by beast people and humans are considered an endangered species, held in captivity at zoos or private breeders.
• Jinrouki Winvurga, has the Dominator Empire which is ruled by a patriarchal society who view women as pets and animals. The average female in the Dominator Empire are collared naked pets in household forbidden from standing on two legs. Only a rare number of female officers are permitted to stand as equals but even they faced prejudice.
• The Kingdoms of Ruin, the Witches were once hailed as benefactors who used their magic to aid humanity. But after the rise of the Redia Empire, the witches were ruthlessly hunted in witch hunts. During the witch hunts the empire developed technology to nullify their magic, allow the Empire's soldiers to rape captured Witches to death at their pleasure. Even neighboring nations persecuted the Witches, establishing approved killing grounds which were trash compactors where witches were dumped and were crushed to death in the thousands. Furthermore, the bodies of the witches were exploit for medical advances.
• Returning Girlfriend, Eunah had a good life and a strong relationship with her lover Subae. But all of a sudden, she break up with him when he arranges a romantic getaway at Christmas Eve. Later its revealed Eunah got mixed up in a sex video and it was posted online, soiling her reputation. And to add to insult the men she had sex with tied her up and packed her in a box to ship her to Subae. Since it's winter time, she is at the risk of hypothermia but her shippers stuffed her with a vibrator giving her the means to produce her own body heat.
• In Shingan no Yuusha, the Goddess of Destruction is imprisoned naked in a cage and chained like an animal due to the other gods fearing her god-slaying ability.

• In Terra Formars, the Terraformars having already secretly invaded Earth, kidnap various men and women while they are in their bathroom. They take them to a research facility, where they use them as lab experiments for breeding more humans and test subjects. Captives are kept in glass enclosures like animals, and blankets which they use to hide their nudity.

Comic Books

• Nagarya - The Lost Continent, the Nymphs of an unknown planet who resemble beautiful dark haired naked men and women. They live in the jungles and have an aversion to tools, man-made shelters and anything artificial. Later its revealed that they Nymphs were once a culture who lived in a city but were defeated by a group called the Nagarya. The female Nymphs were implanted with contraceptive devices to prevent them from breeding, and the Nymphs were loosed in the wild, condition to act that way to serve as game by the Nagarya, who hunt and gut them like beasts.
• Raptors, the vampire council vote to declare humanity an endangered species. The vote goes to preserve them, though that means to keep them as animals. Inspector Lenore is the first to be condemn such a fate, leading to her vampire captors to strip her of her clothes as animals do not wear them.
• Trolls of Troy, show the trolls of the planet Troy seeing humans as little more than food, taking pleasure in hunting them, man, woman and child. Despite humanity's higher technological development they seem to have little ability to defend themselves from trolls when they want a snack. Even a seasoned female mercenary is nothing more than a pet to a troll girl.
• Painkiller Jane has millionaire named Johnny Fitzgerald who has a sick hobby of trafficking women into his mansion, who he tortures and kills. The lucky ones are left near death or become his dogs.

Literature

• End Product by Barry Norman, has a post-war planet where the black races have been wiped out in a racial conflict known as the Negro Wars. Though the black people are not wiped out but the victorious Aryan races have come up with a grotesque plan for the losers. Over a period of a hundred or so years, they have lobotomised black people, rebranded them as ‘ediblacks’, claiming they are a different species to humanity. These ediblacks are bred and factory farmed as a supply of meat and organs, and even organized hunts for sport.
• Firefall (2012), has the Lily People who were originally descended from a group of criminals that fled to the plateau of Mure. There after claiming the Tower from the native willots, the bandits found that they lacked a source of meat. To solve this they selected the lower ranking members of the group, stripping them of their clothes and tools to be bred as livestock. Though they were basically the same species the bandits now called the Tower People refused to see the Lily People anything more than food to be eaten.
• The Lost Regiment, has the Hordes of Valdennia, seeing humans as nothing more than cattle who they eat. Due to their stronger physical abilities humans are pretty much at their mercy. Horde create dishes of humans using their flesh and even eat their victims brain when the person is still breathing.
• Mirror Earth, has instances of this when the alien Redolans come visit the nudists communities of an alternate Earth. To them humans, they are not people, but are products which can be bought and sold. They make it no secret that they want to buy any man or woman who take their fancy. Usually they are successful in convincing humans to join them, preying on the grieving who have nothing to live for on Earth. Though they are limited in speaking English, they have a sinister tool, a pheromone that compels people to listen to them. Even when forewarned as example from Jane, a visitor to the nudist, she immediately agrees to come with the alien and be a slave, before her comrades grab her and shake some sense. In another dimension ruled by the Sun Emperor over an Asian culture, prisoners and slaves are dehumanized by being stripped of their clothes and declared lesser.
• The Pet by Asher Ellis, has an underground world of rich elite who host a human dog show, having human pets who were in their late teens, graying oldsters, Hispanic, Indian and Asian. And all showed signs of being thoroughly broken into obedience.
• Pets Trilogy, has a race of Neanderthal giants who developed a pet trade with humans being sold as exotic pets. It's superficially just a slave industry, though the aliens will deny such allegations as they see humans as just semi-intelligent animals who are a third their size so they feel justified on their superiority. The level of effort that the aliens debase humans as nothing more than pets is extraordinary to the point of intentional blindness:
  • Hunters who visit Earth are aware humanity have developed industry and organized settlements like cities, though make false zoology details and refer cities akin to animal colonies.
  • Men and women who are tranquilized in parks or areas where they are alone, are taken offworld. They are stripped of all their clothes to make sure they reflect to the alien public that they are nothing but naked animals.
  • To match their perception of humans being non-sentient, pet sellers use terms to refer hair atop their heads and genital areas as manes and pelts.
  • The giants are pretty homogenous, having dark hair and dark eyes, which is why manes and pelts of blonde and red are popular, as any pet with similar features makes human look too much like a person.
  • More sharper pet owners notice that the manes and pelts of their human captives don't when they first arrive. This is course is the result of artificial hair dyes, though the giants claim that it's a result of their diet in the natural wild.
  • Men and women who are brought to pet store are first kept under observation to determine those who are rebellious and subservient. The former usually end up euthanized or sold as breeders. While the latter as sold as pets.
  • The attire of pets varies different, some are dressed as dolls forced to roleplay as children. Others are left naked more or less to display their bodies. Some even garbed in chastity and bondage gear and led by their nipples. Or others are used as service animals for blind giants.
  • The products sold in pet stores for human pets are demeaning, containing products depicting happy humans of all ages, even pregnant mothers. Services like tracking devices are provided and even sex equipment like stretch kits sold to prepare human pets in sexual recreation.
  • Bach who owns Judy Baker is a New York Time author manages to draw a solar system and show Bach it's her home, but rather than admit his kind are abusers destroyed the picture. The possibility of her being an intelligent alien species doesn't process to the giant who thinks her intelligence is due to her being a subspecies.
  • More ruthless pet breeders show blatant disregard for humans, keeping them in squalid conditions and focus on producing more infants or whelps as they debonairly call them to meet demand.
  • Most government officials know the truth that humans are a sapient species, if they own a pet. However refuse to do anything as the pet business is too lucrative to stop.
  • A human researcher named Tral show cased his ignorance to seeing human intelligence, when he observes a a group of men at the Preserve. Despite them using tools, fire and clothes, he refuses to admit that they are sentient. He counterargues that other animals show such traits, like crabs decorating their shells, birds using stones to crack shells and wolves organizing in packs.
• Planet of the Apes, the simian society of Soror appears to be focused on maintaining man is nothing more than a beast especially by the orangutans. That has a similar body for them to safely exploit for medical advances because man has no soul. Their industry appears heavily invested in biological sciences and the hunting industry. But later in these are all revealed to be part of the apes own ancestral beginnings, when they were a pet species to the ancient Sororians. But usurped and imitated their masters’ society and roles after the latter began to stagnation. It appears the apes despite having taken Soror from their former masters still hold a grudge for being beasts so they committed the same treatment to them, conditioning them to behave that way for ten thousand years.
• The Silk and the Song, has the Hussirs enslaving lost colonists to their world. After overpowering them with numbers, the Hussirs, strip the humans of their clothes and technology. And also milked them for as many technological advances like writing and glass. For a thousand years they are made to live as beasts, serving as mounts and dairy producers for the Hussirs. Humanity lost most of their history, forgetting their origins, nudity is the natural state of humans, and the fences to their confinement are not just around them but in their heads as they can't conceive of a life beyond enslavement.
• Discussed in the Good Intentions series by Elliott Kay. Wade literally discusses the mechanisms of dehumanizing an enemy before killing the vampire Lucien in cold blood in Good Intentions and then he and Jason talk about the concept and the mental dangers it can bring in Past Due.

Live-Action Film

• Endangered Species (2002), an alien poacher goes around killing humans, preying them at gyms. Naked women mean nothing to him, even their breasts sizes are inconsequential as long as they are fit and have natural features. Apparently his species wiped out the dinosaurs from overhunting and human skin is the next most valuable exotic animal skin.
• Pawn Shop Chronicles, a serial kidnapper of women and rapist keeps a harem of 21 naked women. The conditions they live in are inhuman, as they are cages stacked in a pyramid with room they where they could only crawl on all fours. All the women are dirty and naked. The man even succeeded in breaking them to the point they worshipped him and coveted being his #1.
• Reckless (2014 film), has a kidnapped heiress named Laura by two con-men. After removing all of Laura's clothes and preventing her from sitting on a toilet, instead forcing her to use a bedpan for peeing while handcuffed and ballgagged.

Live-Action TV

• Femme Fatales, has Colonel Matilda West, an Evil Twin from an alternate universe. When she is accidentally brought to the main universe, her arrival leaves her crouching on a table naked, almost feral like a dog. Her counterpart clothed and in control, the scientist Matilda West looks at her like a specimen to be studied. The colonel reacts like a wild animal and attacks her good twin, forcing her to be sedated. Good Matilda adds that she intends to take her twin around the world to show her off as living proof that other universes exists. Jokingly calling her evil twin to be her King Kong. Later when the situation requires the colonel to be sent back via the teleporter, she is stripped and put naked on the machine. While preparing the device, the male researchers pet the unconscious woman head and rump like one would do to comfort animal.

Web Comics

• Fansadox: 598 - Voyages of the Trader, has a Arabian cargo ship packed with naked women of all ethnicities kidnapped from all over the USA. Impaled on wooden horses and stuffed in both holes they are subjected to be objectified and conditioned to take pleasure from pain and serving their masters. All traces of their former lives are erased, even their names are no longer used and only referred to by the Cup size.
• Lady Jane's Greyston has the character of the titular series was a scientist during the Victorian era, who was a supporter of Charles Darwin. While on an expedition to Africa to study gorillas. However the expedition was attack everyone killed including her lover, as for Jane, she is raped by the men and forced to have sex with a gorilla. They take it further by stripping her and tattooing her, dread locking her hair to make her look more exotic to be sold as so human exhibit. Her British colleagues buy her to humiliate her do to their distaste for her beliefs as an intelligent woman and then sell her to a circus.