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The Objectification of Women

 

In such ways, women are not only being sexually objectified but also victimized. .
             Objectification of women has become very common in our society and is the biggest trigger that produces such sick mentality and negatively influences women's life leaving a huge effect on their health and psychological well-being. Evidence for the sexual objectification of women can be found practically everywhere, from the media, to women's interpersonal experiences, and in specific environments where the sexualization of women is encouraged and culturally disregarded. You can examine representations of women in sexualizing and objectified manner in the media including commercials, television programs, movies, music lyrics and videos, magazines, advertising, video games, and Internet sites where women are revealed wearing provocative cloths, and posing in ways that emphasize their body parts and sexual readiness. As Jean Kilbourne, an internationally recognized for her work on the image of women in advertising, clarifies in her "Killing Us Softly 4" filmed speech; advertisements that intend to send such pictures to the audience create negative framework raising women's awareness of their body shape and size, their concern about being judged and pushing them more and more towards depression and eating disorders. Moreover, she continues, objectification theory speculates the "perfect" model of a real woman, hence postulating women to objectify themselves. The concept of self-objectification and the idea of not having a thin and perfect body, that is portrayed in the media and represented as the role model, can increase women's anxiety about their own physical appearance creating fear about how their body is looked at and evaluated. It also can diminish awareness of internal bodily needs such as hunger, sexual arousal, and stomach reductions; increase women's opportunities for body shame and eventually turning to disordered eating, depression, and sexual dysfunction.


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