The Objectifcation of Women

I knew I had a problem and I couldn't admit it." (Vineyard, Jennifer). .
             "On average people see between 400 and 600 advertisements per day, 52% of all advertisements objectify women" (Morris, Katie). Photo editors make these women appear to be flawless, but the truth is these images are false, involving a ton of Photoshop edits. Yet men develop false expectations as a result that women try their best to reach but physically cannot nor never will. In our society we see a girl as "beautiful" as thin and pale with little to no blemishes. "The media focuses so much on telling girls that being "skinny as a board" is so beautiful, rather then paying attention to the intent that being overweight is not healthy. But in fact the average woman is between sizes 12 and 14, not 0 and 2 (Morris, Katie). Magazines such as Playboy claim to be "celebrating women's beauty." But what Playboy does in fact do, is "celebrate" one minutely small portion of the female gender. They do not focus on all female human beings of all shapes, sizes, and ages. They are usually "models:" young, very pretty women of a physical type chosen to appeal to male eyes. These young girls see this and have the thought that if they cannot be like these models, then they simply are not pretty enough for the world. They can end up isolating themselves from others, avoiding school, and other social activities due to the way they feel about themselves. They turn to extreme destructive behaviors to take the pain away of feeling so horrible about themselves, like eating disorders and even cutting themselves. The term that often describes this phenomenon of "downing" women is Objectification, a notation central to feminist theory. A definition of Objectification might be: "portrayals of women in ways and contexts which suggest that women are objects to be looked at, touched, or used, anonymous things or commodities to be purchased, or perhaps taken and once tired of, even discarded, often to be replaced by a newer, younger edition; certainly not treated as full human beings with equal rights and needs.