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Sadly our culture is too far down the hyper money fuelled road to see how things will change or reverse anytime soon. Thank you for your research and thoughts! I am studying this kind of material in class, and this served as a wonderful voice into it! The spiritual aspect complements love, sex, intimacy, friendship and achievement. Even Ghengis Kahn during his rule as an emperor was known to conjure gods through Spirtualism for his quest. Seems like your American society is moving backwards after a hard fought battle in post WW2 — era.
The family lineage, religion, spirituality and material possessions were all balanced at one point — then somewhere along the lines American policies refused to place restrictions on what can be sold, purchased and televised. Then your corporations lobby and use the freedom card — and your officials give in. Great information and statistics! From a young age I grew up getting catcalled by men of all ages. It, especially, grossed me out when I had middle age men doing it.
I have always felt that our society is the one who needs the fixing rather than the individuals with personal issues and body image. We subconsciously are not aware on how we focus more on fitting the Eurocentric body image rather than loving ourselves for who we are.
Furthermore, a lot of the advertisements are conditioning men and women to feel like you have to look a certain way in order to be get recognized by the opposite sex. This is something that definitely needs to be changed. Perhaps if we can get the marking companies and the way in which they advertise products, it could slowly but surely change things. I also believe perhaps more sensitive and awareness training from a young age can come a long way. If I dress in yoga pants that leave nothing to the imagination, should I be surprised when men make comments about my body parts on display.
If you want to be treated like a lady, the first step is to dress and act like a lady. True, you are not responsible for how other people treat you or react to your self-presentation, but you can certainly do your best to take personal responsibility to present yourself in a way that inspires the kind of reaction you hope to get. Why would you want to temp a man who is not your significant other? Why would you want to flaunt your wares…. Think about the messages women are sending out…women dont want to be objectified but then proceed to objectify themselves….
Women should refuse to reveal too much skin in ads, on tv, in real life, to be respected. I disagree with your statement, to some extent. Women should not be objectified, period, no matter what they wear. There are reasonable limits to this statement of course i. But otherwise, I think it is unreasonable to try to force women to dress in a specific way in order for other people to think of them as professional and deem them worthy of being respected. Women should be respected regardless of the things they decide to dress themselves up in.
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If a woman decides to wear a cropped top and a miniskirt simply because she thinks it looks good on her, why should she be forced to deal with men objectifying and catcalling her? The root of the problem lies with sexualization in the media. I believe that the way we respond to this issue is similar to how we deal with the issue of sexual assault. This may seem a bit off topic, but bear with me. Women are taught to be scared of going home alone at night, to always keep on speed dial, and to carry their keys between their fingers in case someone follows them home or tries to assault them.
This message is not dealing with the root of the problem, which is that people are assaulting women in the first place. Young girls and boys should be taught that it is wrong and illegal to assault and use women for their own sexual pleasure.
Instead, girls are taught by their parents and other adults that they are not safe walking the streets alone at night because of what their bodies look like. The brunt of the problem should not lie in the hands of women to deal with; the problem should be resolved altogether. Similarly, with the objectification of women, young boys and girls should be taught that it is incorrect to view women as sexual objects, no matter what they decide to wear or how much skin they show again, within reasonable limits.
It is wrong to assume that women should have to cover themselves up in order to be respected by others. Even by my own sisters I was teased. As I grew up I was always self-conscious about my look and how I approached people. Guess thats why I never really had friends. I always thought that was the only way to be, feel and look beautiful. I never accepted myself and I never thought no man would accept me as me. When I meet my husband it was different. He liked me but there was always one thing he hated from me, my acne. Above all that he still married and there are still times he questions my appearance and wants me to look like the girls in magazine.
Or like the girls today will all that make-up.
Instead, girls are taught by their parents and other adults that they are not safe walking the streets alone at night because of what their bodies look like. Sexy Young Artistic Nudes Yevette. Women should be respected regardless of the things they decide to dress themselves up in. Raising two boys of my own, I understand what Marcia was saying, we sometimes forget that males fall victim of societies trap also. Most troubling for me, when I speak with other males, is the complete lack of balance on the subject. It makes me feel so inferior, devalued and uncomfortable.
Its difficult to image that one day my girls will maybe go through the same things I went through and not feel accepted. But this article comes to show that woman are seen as sex objects and that man will never be satisfied with how woman look because they will have the image of what they see in ADs or magazines. They will always want more and it no one could be like the women in a magazine not even the girl that is pictured in it. And no man or woman will every be satisfied with themselves. Really enjoyed this article.
I knew men like that…they have the problem, not you. They feel insecure thinking men are judging them by having a woman who was airbrushed.. That is his problem. What you should be asking is.. I absolutely agree with your statements in this blog. Unfortunately, in our culture, women are hypersexualized and learn from a young age that our looks are everything. As we grow up, things do not change, and the pressure to be perfect looking according to impossible standards becomes even more difficult. Now that I am nearing 30, I recognize it everywhere.
When I was younger, I did not realize how unhealthy it all was and how it was all a marketing scheme. I was always considered attractive by my peers and I never understood how much this affected my perception of myself and others. I always bought into all of the hype. Looking good was my goal, at the expense of other qualities about myself.
When I got married at 23 and had my son at 24, things changed for me. I began to see how I had used my looks my entire life to get what I wanted from others and neglected so many parts of myself that were important. So many parts of myself were underdeveloped. I am so glad to be out of this sick cycle, though I do recognize my inner desires to still be attractive. I dislike how often I realize that I am brainwashed.
However, I was still there getting my hair done…because I still want to look attractive! I think, that as you mentioned, another huge problem comes down to that boys are also exposed to this, beginning at a young age. Character, integrity, and personal attributes not related to looks get lost and deemed as not as important. No wonder people are suffering so deeply with depression and anxiety. Especially as women age, a younger woman will always be deemed more attractive, especially since older women are virtually invisible in our society. What is the answer then?
As you mentioned, awareness is incredibly important. I think that as adults who recognize this, we need to be active in shielding our children from the consequences of this mindset and being aware of what they are exposed to. As you mentioned, pornography is a huge issue for men. Most men are exposed to pornography at young ages. If things are going to change, adults need to be the ones to stop this sick cycle. Unfortunately, again, many adults are stuck in this because of the constant reinforcement by ads their entire lives!
The media will never be helpful in eliminating these issues because it keeps money in their pockets. I live in Miami and you constantly see objectification of women as you drive down the street. Objectification of women has only become worse in the recent years because media is only becoming more and more aggressive and uses sexuality as the most important marketing tool.
I am afraid of what is going to happen when my children are teenagers, just this week something occurred in her school that I have not been able to get over. A little boy in her art class was openly talking about girls behinds!! I could not believe the things my daughter was telling me …. I had to bring this to the teachers attention.
Sure as if people only from bad families talk about inappropriate things! Who knows, maybe he is watching something he is not suppose to and as I mentioned its all over the place…On another note, after having children I have experienced feeling insecure about my body and most specially my breast after having two kids. I was afraid that my husband was not going to find me attractive specially when we live in a place where physical beauty is so important.
I relate to the meaning of the word self objectification, I felt at some point that I had to do whatever it took to make myself skinny. I was not eating well I was sick. Thankfully, as I have grown older and wiser, I have learned that being true to yourself and loving yourself just as you are is the real and ultimate beauty. Only those who truly care about you accept you as you are.
Women who are constantly seeking a way to make themselves look better, usually end up very unhappy and many times regret what they have done to themselves. I hope to be seeing more of that in the near future. This is a powerful article in the sense that we see this happen in our everyday lives. People would call her all sorts of names, like tomboy. She kept on doing what she loved and ended up playing collegiate sports. In this article, it states that women are the only gender greatly influenced and impacted by the phenomenon of hyper-sexualizing and objectifying them in our culture.
Although this is partially true, there is also great impact on men. It is not only men who are hyper-sexualizing women, but rather it is our society that is objectifying women. I believe that this articles is portraying that women are viewed as sex objects. The media plays a huge role in this crisis, as it portrays women in a way they should look.
In my opinion, not all men fall under this circumstance but it is true that both man and women will never be satisfied with themselves. Which comes to show us that appearance is a very important factor to oneself. Instead of judging others on their appearance, we have to take into account that we are all equal no matter our appearance, race, or ethnicity. Reading this article opened my eyes up to so many things that I did not realize. I enjoyed and learned a lot from this reading. I think it is actually quiet sad and disgusting that someone would scream something so vulgar out loud like that.
I think this was a perfect example of how so many men are dehumanizing woman and society just sees it as a normal and an ok thing. Often at times when I go to parties or I am out with my friends, men like to his at us and even go about getting our attention by grabbing onto our hands. This is something that has always bothered me and made me feel uncomfortable. I actually think its is very rude and hissing at us reminds me of how you could call a dog to get its attention.
Grabbing onto a strangers hand is also very awkward and uncomfortable. No one wants someone that they do not know grabbing onto their hands and arms. For a lot of men, this is normal. Its important for me to speak on things like this because maybe to men it may not be a big deal but to a lot of women it is.
Something that also stood out to me in this article is when the author touched upon the porn industry. In American alone, the porn industry brings in 13 billion a year; while worldwide it brings in billion a year. This shows us how much that woman are looked at as sex objects. Many restaurants around the world like hooters and twin peaks, has woman dressed up in a more sexual manner. This goes to show you that so many people and companies judge a woman off of her looks and her physical appearance rather than what she actually brings to the table.
Much of these things that I have become so hard on about on myself is due to seeing many girls in magazines and on the TV screens. I think that it is important that we talk to so many young girls around us and let them know that beauty comes in different shapes, sizes and colors. It is also important that we let young girls know that she is just as beautiful as the girl standing next to her. Beauty has no definition. I find this article to be very informative and interesting. It really made me reflect upon our culture and the way we are raising our children.
Children are our future and in order to address and change the problems in our society with the sexualization of women we have to start with the children. One of the topics we have studied is the objectification of women. In particular one part of the article struck me and reminded me of what we learned in class. Duske refers to the ads in our society all over magazines, tv and billboards that objectify women being almost invisible. These sexual ads are brain washing us and we do not even realize it because they are almost invisible we are oblivious to it.
As part of an assignment for class we had to look up an objectifying Ad and post it and discuss how it objectifies women. This is when my eyes were opened to just how many ads I could find and some were down right pornographic and others even promoted violence against women. There were so many to choose from it made me realize just what a thwarted society we live in. The ones that we should esteem in the highest place value, love, protect and respect have been brought down to a place so low that they are not even treated as people, but as objects. Unfortunately, I believe that women participate in this act of devaluing themselves as well.
Women let themselves get brainwashed by societies unreal expectations. The media leads women to believe that by exposing themselves inappropriately, selling their bodies, and getting cosmetic surgery, to achieve the perfect body and face, they will be loved and desired by all. Women are led to believe that this is what being a women is all about. Women subconsciously start believing that their value is in their physical appearance, if they do not have the perfect face, body, or are not sexy enough then we are not good enough.
Raising two boys of my own, I understand what Marcia was saying, we sometimes forget that males fall victim of societies trap also. We have to realize that in order to fix a problem we must, focus on all the factors.
The objectification and sexualizing of women is a problem that is affecting everyone in all society, men, women and children included. It is a problem impacting our culture and our families. Without families there is no future. I absolutely agree that we need to change the way we teach our children.
We need to teach our girls the true meaning of beauty. Real beauty is on the inside. We must learn to respect and love ourselves for men to love and respect us. Men need to be taught to remember the value of a woman and not judge upon outward appearances. We must teach our boys to love and respect women and our girls to respect themselves. Respect is what society is missing, let others know how you feel and boycott these ads and companies that sell sex, depravity and the objectification of women, by simply not purchasing these products and use social media to tell others our thoughts and spread the message.
I am sure many men and women feel the same way but are afraid to voice their beliefs for fear of being an outcast. We can change our societies course one child at a time. We tend to blame men or get upset at them for looking at us or treating women a certain way. I have experienced this first hand myself. I too have been told things by men in which I find disrespectful and have also made me feel uncomfortable. And yes, I have gotten upset and felt as a victim but after reading this article I have realized that they too are a victim of this.
Men are not the ones who are objectifying the women, our society is objectifying women. They are exposed daily to all of these sexualized images of women that it gives them the power that they can be a certain way. This ultimately leads to sexual violence and harassment against women. Pornography is another factor that leads to this, making men feel more empowered towards women in sex and just viewing them as a sexual object. Through all of this men are being taught to be more disconnected towards women and lacking any emotions. Society as a whole is at fault for all of this.
It is normal to go to a restaurant now in days and see half naked waitresses. It is normal to dance in a way that you are having sex out in the public. I can really relate to this myself. I am in the process of dating, and I tend to question why men act the way they do, and why it is that they find it normal to speak to me so direct sexually without barely knowing me. In fact, men have actually looked at me weird if I have rejected them or even questioned them for doing something I believe was too up front or disrespectful.
In their eyes it is normal to do this, and Why? Because other women have given them the right to act a certain ways by portraying themselves a certain way which objectifies them. It is only going to get worse from here on out. Unless our society begins to change the way they objectify women, starting with the way women are used in TV to grab the audience attention Men are never going to stop seeing women as a sex symbol. Like many women, I have been catcalled way to many times while walking down the street.
I have never understood what exactly are men trying to accomplish by catcalling. Do they expect us to turn around and have a conversation or for us to go home with them? What is the point? I have never felt good about myself after being catcalled, on the contrary I almost feel dirty or like a piece of meat.
Although men can choose to act differently and it is their decision, I believe it is mostly societies fault. We are all taught from a very young age to objectify women. We have to educate ourselves to be able to educate our children. We are taught that women should look pretty for the man, care for the man and never question the man. But by objectifying women in ads and magazines we also condition our young boys to grow up with the idea that the body is separate from the person. Another thing that has become more popular as images continue to hypersexualize women is plastic surgery.
I really am excited to see that more designers are using plus sized models and hope to see many more designers join in. I completely agree with pretty much everything that you talked about in your post. I am a male, so like your percentages show, we often encounter less of these degrading and demeaning things that are posted on things such as billboards and social media. Something that really irritates me is when I see another man whistle calling a girl like you mentioned happened to when you were going to get lunch. I feel that that this is much more demeaning and disrespectful than any ads that are posted or ignorant social media posts that are uploaded.
The way I see it is that I would never want anyone doing that to my daughter or spouse, so I see no reason to do it. I feel that men that take part in doing these things are insecure people that are low class and have no morals. I feel to prevent these type of things and decrease the amount of people that are taking part in these things, education on the topic has to be increased like you mentioned. I believe that to stop a big problem, you have to start at the root of it.
The root of it would be to increase awareness at a young age and slowly the problem will deteriorate. Things such as blogs, including your post, are also a great way to increase awareness and allow others to express themselves. This article speaks very deeply to what I have personally experienced as a young adult growing up in an athletic environment. I was constantly being told that I was too heavy, too short, or too voluptuous to be a professional or even successful swimmer.
Advertisements constantly depicted the ideal female and male body to be perfectly sculpted and lacking any visible imperfections. If we as an audience create a normality of health and happiness before weight and the pursuit of perfection, then we can make a difference in what main stream media portrays. Often times, insecurities are targeted as a point of sale for companies and easy in for a target audience. If weight loss is the products main purpose then commercials and advertisements will focus on heavier set individuals and the difference their product has made for them. If we continue to use weight loss as an example, some products often have serious adverse effects on the body but succeed in helping to lose weight.
In a consumer driven society, the goal is to sell no matter what the cost. In the case of body image, the cost will often be the sanity and health of the consumer.
Makeup, weight loss pills, plastic surgery, etc. Hello, I loved your article. I found your article interesting. How many times do we watch television with our children and not think about what is being shown. What kind of message does that send to our children? We see clothes in stores getting shorter and smaller as each year passes.
I cannot even recall how many stores I went to just to find a bathing suit I believed was suitable for my toddler daughter.
There have been many questions raised about the apathy of our aging youth toward sexuality. This includes the way our children view each other and respect others and themselves. I like how you can suggestions on how to address sexualization in television shows.
One suggestion I believe that we need to implement is about educators working with media literary resources to inform children about sex and ethics. That can be done by encouraging students to deal with sexuality appropriately. It seems that we throw sex out there in media but try to brush it under the rug in school. As educators, we cannot be prudes when it comes to this topic. While we have to handle it with care and precision, it needs to be talked about. I refuse to be objectified. I think they are ugly anyway.
I refuse to be dissatisfied with my body.. I hate when women over-sexualize themselves; it looks so slutty and cheap. Women need to ignore the media, become more secure in themselves and dress less provocatively if they want to be taken seriously by men. It is pathetic how women go along with what they see on tv without questioning anything. Men need to stop objectifying women; and this begins with women dressing more conservatively. Not likely since many women dress provocatively to get attention because they are insecure and need male validation.