Objectification In Women

The body image movement aims to improve the relationship between women and their bodies in a more positive manner (Dove 2014). Currently, women are suffering from an increase in body self-consciousness as a result of medias role regarding beauty ideals. Researchers have found that women worldwide do not view themselves as beautiful and are consistently troubled about their appearance and concluded that six out of ten girls are concerned about their appearances (Dove 2014). As a result, anxiety and self-consciousness are all contributing factors producing significant health concerns among women (Aubrey 2007). Media has developed a reputation in society for women to be held to unachievable beauty standards as they promote a “thin culture” (Hesse-Biber et al. 2006). This promotion of beauty standards has inspired the body image movement to educate and encourage women to love their bodies in order to achieve more self-esteem and confidence (Dove 2014). As well as, corporations are beginning to

But I can’t help but believe there is something deeper than that – an issue of desensitization. If females of her generation are desensitized to that kind of material now (as research suggests), what does it mean for their understanding of sexuality? Perhaps more importantly, what does their intrinsic (although, perhaps, involuntary) acceptance of sexual behavior mean for men?

“The media have taken many celebrity appearances into their own hands, many times without permission” (“The Objectification of Women” par.2). Because of the media photoshopping women 's beauty on TV, social media, and even advertisements, it began to create a high rate of accusations of teenage girls’ all over the world. “In a recent study, the University at Buffalo sociologists found that the portrayal of women in the popular media over the last several decades has become increasingly sexualized, even pornified"( Donovan par.1). Due to this, women have been treated as sexual objects everywhere. Objectification comes from the lack of confidence and media 's portrayal of beauty. Due to this, the portrayal of men is not the same as females. Objectification is when women are treated like sexual objects. ‘Objectification is often defined by physical appearance, rather than personality” (“The Objectification of Women” par.2). As a result, women struggle to keep up with these trends today. “In order to achieve a ‘perfect’ look, the media manipulates photos using unnecessary editing in Photoshop to completely contort the original, creating an unnatural image” (“The Objectification of Women” par.2). The media is the dominant cause of these actions of teenage girls insecurities, high rates of surgical treatment, and males creating these fictitious assumptions. Objectification in social media should end because it causes teenage insecurities, it

Elline Lipkin, a Research Scholar at the center for the Study of Women at the University of California, Los Angeles, describes in her article ‘From girls’ Bodies, Girls’ Selves: Body Image, Identity, and Sexuality, the effects of media body image have on females. Many females may not be aware of the effects that the media has on women. In fact, according to Lipkin women are taught a lesson about what a female should look like just by the advertisement. Advertising what the ideal female body should look like may seem like a good idea, but really it effects woman more in the negative side then on the positive. In fact, most of the ideal female body is false, in which it could become harmful emotionally and physically. To improve the confidents in female very own body, false advertisement can stop in which negative effects will also stop, and changing the way women see their body in a different view.

“The media has taken many celebrity appearances into their own hands, many times without permission” (“The Objectification of Women” par.2). Because of the media photoshopping women 's beauty on TV, social media, and even advertisements, it began to create a high rate of accusations of teenage girls’ all over the world. “In a recent study, the University at Buffalo sociologists found that the portrayal of women in the popular media over the last several decades has become increasingly sexualized, even pornified"( Donovan par.1). Due to this, women have been treated as sexual objects everywhere. Objectification comes from the lack of confidence and media 's portrayal of beauty; Due to this, the portrayal of men is not the same as females objectification is when women are treated like sexual objects. ‘Objectification is often defined by physical appearance, rather than personality” (“The Objectification of Women” par.2). As a result, women should not struggle to keep up with these trends today. “In order to achieve a ‘perfect’ look, the media manipulates photos using unnecessary editing in Photoshop to completely contort the original, creating an unnatural image” (“The Objectification of Women” par.2). The media is the dominant cause of these actions of teenage girls insecurities, high rates of surgical treatment, and males creating these fictitious assumptions. Objectification in social media should end because it causes teenage insecurities,

Sexualization and objectification has also been linked to eating disorders, low self esteem and depression. Because of the narrowing view of women having to be skinnier or younger looking, many girls feel boxed into a femininity that can only be met by a fraction of the population.

Women have made a significant impact in the past by demanding to not be ignored. Although there have been changes, we are still not done. American culture continues to emphasize how women look. Having main stream media around, the advertisements now may come in variation. In addition, as the media industries advance the model prospective of what a woman should appear as becomes more common in society noting that anything other then what is being idolized would be inadequate. Therefore, “these beauty standards, largely proliferated through the media, have drastic impacts on young women and their body images.” There must be restrictions on what mass media can publicize in order to protect women from sexual objectification.

The media, today, continues to falsely portray the image of the ideal woman. This misrepresentation adversely affects the self-esteem of women and young girls. After evaluating their physical appearances and comparing them to edited pictures, females develop unrealistic expectations of how they should appear physically to others. This misconception can cause great concern about their bodies and very low self-esteem. Young girls will abuse their bodies by starving themselves to be thinner and properly proportioned according to society’s expectations. Body Dysphoria has become a growing concern in very young girls because of unrealistic images of women. The media also seems to have no concern of the images they are displaying of men. In magazines

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How has sexual objectification of women helped sustain the social control of women and their sexualities?

The objectification of women is well documented in this article. The men in the high-risk fraternities are treating the girls like an object. The men do not care about these girls’ feelings. The quote in the article “Did you know that this week is Women’s Awareness Week? I guess that means we get to abuse them more this week.” (137) This just shows that the men are not looking out for the well being of these females.

This article examined the present study highlights self-objectification as a previously unexamined variable that may be involved in the female response to media stimuli. The central purpose of the study was to examine whether viewing thin-idealized media images would increase state self-objectification, negative affect and body dissatisfaction in young women. Then the article discussed the experiment done, which compared the effect of intensive exposure of thin models magazines and magazines advertising products without people. Also, the author presented comprehensive description of how those effects, self-objectification, appearance anxiety, negative mood and body dissatisfaction, were measured. In the last part, the author showed the results, which showed that the group which was exposed to the thin-idealized models scored much higher number in all the previously-stated measures compared to the group which was exposed to products’ images.

The female body image is highly influenced by the mass media and the media’s portrayal of women, ‘70% of college women say they feel worse about their own looks after reading women’s magazines’ (University of Massachusetts & Stanford University, 2006), the portrayal of women in the media has an unrealistic approach and brings out body dissatisfactions and this results in eating problems and disorders.

As a female, I am extremely aware of the culture that has been developed around women throughout the world. I believe that as a female I should not have to experience the objectification by men that so profoundly conveys the false belief of the inferiority of women. I believe that I should not be discriminated against or evaluated because of my gender or physical appearance. This generalisation however does not only apply to women. Many men are also subjected to a culture in which they are evaluated by; one of which stresses the importance of a good body image and a sense of masculinity which emphasises strength, control and superiority over weak individuals such as women and children as ‘manly’. These are century old traditions and have stimulated

Heflick and Goldenberg ran a total of three different studies with the purpose of finding out whether a woman, but not men, are objectified by others when the focus is on their appearance. The results as predicted in the three studies conducted indicated that females were perceived as less intelligent and capable (competent), as well as less kind and friendly (warm), lastly been less sincere and trustworthy (moral), when we focus on their appearance. This research applies to a greater social issue or problem in the real world in a way that traditionally society has a molded perspective regarding women and how they should look, where social norms dictate certain gender roles for both sexes. Men have been regarded as dominant, masculine, and independent, while women are often depicted as weak, sensitive, and dependent.