What Is Objectification?

Catfishing has become a growing phenomenon among internet daters in search of finding love online. With increasing work demands opportunities to meet and establish relationships can be a difficult balancing act for a lot of singles. Traditional dating approaches to meeting and dating has become all but obsolete as new dating approaches emerge, allowing people to meet without leaving the comfort of their home. However, with new opportunities and access to meeting, the likelihood of “catfishing,” also increases. Catfishing is a term used for people that create false identities for social media platforms or online dating profiles. This is usually done to deceptively pursue online romances for some personal gain or other interest at the expense of the person they are catfishing. Persons engaging in catfishing usually do so as a way to lure a romantic partner, bully another person, obtain monies/gifts, taunt, embarrass, seek revenge for being jilted/getting even, improve self-esteem, etc.

Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, tumblr, Instagram, Tinder - all of these most likely sound a little familiar. They are all social media sites that are easily accessible through our iPhones or Galaxies or any other phone really. In the Emily Witt’s essay “Love Me Tinder”, which is part of the bigger story as to how Tinder came to be, along with some personal experiences of the people involved in the earlier development of the application. The discussion centers around the ever-changing motion of romantic and social domains in response to online dating sites like Tinder, where people can get together for regular hook-ups or casual dates, among other things, without commitment or the complications of things getting too serious. Witt wonders what this foreshadows for the human connection through the online world where people are just constantly connecting, but at the same time, not really connecting either. In "Precognitive Police" by Henrick Karoliszyn, he discusses a different and, in a lot of ways, the more troubling consequences of computer technology in his essay, where crimes can be prevented through various algorithms that can pinpoint criminals before they commit crimes, raising a countless number of questions concerning the fourth amendment. But there is an issue - an issue of us dehumanizing each other. Nowadays, our first impressions of people become these online profiles of them or files of them along with a history of them and the things they have done. These new

The last section in chapter two of Freakonomics, written by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, attempts to answer the following questions; “How forthright (and honest) are people when it comes to sharing their personal information,” and “what kind of information in personal ads is considered the most (and least) desirable” (74)? Throughout this section the authors provide statistical data from an online dating site, which encompassed more than 20,000 users. This data showed that not only are Americans untruthful when it comes to creating their online personal ad, but that they lie to increase their likability. These lies include wealth, height, weight, looks, and race preferences. As well as the lies, there are many people who post pictures of a better looking person or make their own photo more desirable, and then there are those who don’t post a photo at all.

In an effort to change this objectification, O’Grady suggests that female artists must begin to reconstruct the subjectivity of black female subjects in art. They should reclaim the black female body as something to embrace and admire rather than just glance over. It is a slow and steady process but a necessary one. Furthermore, she strongly argues that the artist must do so even if her audience is uncomfortable with it because it is the best method to deconstruct a pre-existing idea of the black female subject.

For instance, the media has become an outlet for sexuality and sex education. However, it often portrays inaccurate and permissive views of sexuality. In addition, there are many apps such as tinder, that are very relevant to teens and young adults today.  It is important to examine this topic that we are no longer only meeting people in person, but rather getting to know them online before seeing them face-to-face, thus changing the dynamic of new relationships. Despite the standard modes of dating, Tinder has changed the way that we represent ourselves through our online profiles to attract significant others and the notion of making pre-conceived judgements of people before meeting them in person. As a result, this has created a shift in the culture of young adults from a monogamous culture to a culture that accepts and encourages one-night stands without long-term commitment, as discussed by Kelly B Smith.

In this era, both men and women are obsessed with beauty and obtaining perfect bodies to be accepted by society. The majority of the population can be found on social sites or watches numerous hours of television a year, which contain advertisements and product placement. In fact, Jean Kilbourne states that, “3,000 ads [are] see[n] per day, on average” (Killing Us Softly). The media is responsible for creating the idea of what body image and beauty standards are accepted. Body image plays a very important role in our society in shaping our identities. Advertisements can have both benefits and damaging affects depending on the illustration, model, and message. In the United States, the damages associated with negative body image is a significant

There are women in today’s society that make a living on becoming social media models, financially and emotionally. The ability to edit pictures as drastically changed the game. Men see these images everyday, harshly judge real women, and start to expect them to live up to these standards. The social media trend of Women Crush Wednesdays (WCW) is a major example of this. This is where on Wednesdays, people post of social media who their “crush” is. I commonly see my peers post pictures of supermodels. When my peers blind date, it is common for them to ask for the other person’s social media information in order to pick them

We see the objectification of women everywhere, especially because of the internet. Therefore, it has become a social norm. The internet has immensely influenced the way in which things are shared. The internet is accessible across the world and teenagers spend tremendous amounts of time online. So many people online photoshop their face and body to appear more “beautiful” and get more likes. Our generation has become obsessed with being accepted online by strangers. It’s unfortunate that society does not use social media to make a difference in the world and promote

The objectification of women is commonly used to refer to the presentation of women in the media as an object. Women 's bodies are routinely used as objects to sell various products. In certain pictures women are presented as being vulnerable and easily overpowered especially in ads were they have on revealing clothing and take on submissive roles. These images are found in music videos as well, where the focus is only a particular body part. Lyrics to some songs promote this objectification as well.

I would learn objectify subject and keep on practice ontological choreography through my daily life to prepare myself for emotionally fraught situations. Even though, I am not working in any clinical field yet, I should practice objectification of my body and my mind. To my own understanding, When I say I means I am looking at myself as a subject with emotion, but when I say my means I start to objectify myself from ownership. My family, work and school affect the way I manage my emotional. I am more emotionally when I am at home because I see myself as a subject, a person who able to express emotion freely in order to interact with my families. It doesn’t mean I am an object during school or work. I still have emotion interact with my classmates

The media holds all women to an unattainable standard of society’s image of beauty, and shames all women who don’t look like the women shown in the media. Not all women are born with a slim body shape or facial structure, yet society tells women that they have to look that specific way in order to be accepted. This causes women who aren’t “perfect” to have a low self-esteem, and they try to find an escape from reality because they aren’t pleased with their appearance. Searching for an escape, some women revert to becoming a catfish, or a person who sets up a false personal profile on a social networking site for fraudulent or deceptive purposes. Those women try to form a relationship with someone else using their fake online personas in order to boost their low-self esteems that the media has given them. Women catfish because the media gives them unreachable images of beauty expectations, shames all women who don’t fit that standard, and lacks acceptance towards those women.

It is the purpose of this paper to explore, from a psychological egoist approach, the morality of objectification – particulary whether objectification can be a moral good, is always a moral bad, or the moral question cannot be adequately answered using Psycological Egoism. After outlining Stoltenberg’s stance on objectification, I will start with the basic assumption that there are good actions and evil actions. I will also assume the premise that all objectification (including sexual objectification) is wrong. I will then explore Psycological Egoism’s effect on objectification. Lastly, I will perform a proof of contradiction with what has been found and then address possible replies from Stoltenburg.

Since the introduction of the World Wide Web and mainstream use of the internet to access information in 1990, the way people interact with each other has changed. Social media has opened up new mediums for people to communicate with each other. People exchange messages on Facebook, post tweets on Twitter, and “selfies” on Instagram. These new mediums have also changed the way people find romance and love. In this modern era, it is not uncommon to see people dating other people they have met on the internet. This has opened the door for “catfishing”, lying about your true identity on the internet in order to lure someone into a relationship. This has become so common that Molly McHugh of digitaltrends.com4 has described it as an epidemic. This essay will explore how catfishing has developed with the introduction of social media, why people catfish, and why talking over the internet makes it difficult to spot when someone is presenting a false identity. It will also identify the impacts that catfishing has had on society.

There’s no question that dating 40 years ago was much different than dating now. While back then we actually had to go out and meet somebody to be seen, now, with the click of a button, our entire lives can instantly go public. Social media has created this labeling phenomenon in which individuals can categorize another based on a certain trait. Take online dating, for example. We set up a profile that includes hobbies, interests, places lived, and even sometimes body shape. But the most important part stressed is the profile picture. The picture posted is the first thing somebody sees when they scroll through the thousands of liable suitors. Our picture ends up being our first, and sometimes only, impression. Online dating promotes negative categorization that blinds one from what really matters. We can begin to eliminate this problem by limiting the number of free photos a person can view within a given time urging people to initially look for shared qualities rather than looks.

Objectification of women is an ongoing cultural problem in today’s society. Objectification alone generates a disadvantage for women and often times places them in a position of vulnerability. According to Heflick and Goldenberg, A woman’s physical appearance is the prime indicator of why they are facing continuous oppression. When a woman’s physical appearance is valued above anything else, this often leads to the perception that a woman’s physical traits are more important than her mental capacity. This mindset leads to the misconception that women are incapable of doing anything, other than providing sexual pleasure. Degradation of women is highly conspicuous and it is not being eradicated anytime soon. In fact, degradation is allowing women to be seen as objects rather than being seen as actual human beings.