There’s
two perspectives for objetification. The objetification metaphore: when we
consider the object and subjet of one phrase, refering to male as object means
she is considered in a secondary perspective. And the second perspective, we
could say how women is considered object and not as a human. Both of them have
been poisoned the way how woman see themselves.
We are surround by several signals of
that objetification which puts woman in second round of importance. First we
would say: the difference between
the way women and men are portrayed in national newspapers and other media is
stark - women are too often reduced to the sum of their body parts, heavily
Photoshopped to fit into an ever narrowing ideal of female beauty. Men: Sexy
pictures of men, in contrast to sexy pictures of women, frequently portray them
as sexual subjects, actors exercising their sexuality, instead of objects meant
to gratify someone else's sexuality. And for woman is even harder, considering we see men’s magazines with scantily clad women, and we
see women’s magazines with scantily clad women. Basicly that how they are
selling the idea that this is how we get
our value, becoming the ideal sex object.
And I would say, the
sexual objetification is simply the most visible part of
objectification, once we have gramar predominance: male pronouns dominate our
speech and ideas in everywere. And what about sexist expressions as ‘’he drives
like a girl’’, ‘’he is fragile as lady’’. There’s a research about the Tomb
Raider game which says people don't project themselves into Lara Croft's
character," that they think "I'm going to this adventure with her and
trying to protect her’’. And we still have to survive to stigmas like everyone
looks at it from his point of view: ‘’of course she was abused, he must have
been confused by her signals’’, ‘’of course he couldn’t resist, look for the
clothes she was using’’. And in my opinion the worst thing is even even good
men, when speaking out against violence against women, tell other men to
imagine her as "somebody's wife, somebody's mother, somebody's daughter,
or somebody's sister," it never occurring to them that maybe, just maybe,
a woman is also "somebody", another human.
Now
refering to objetification for consider woman just for their external
appearence, even
if woman could fits perfectly inside of the perfection standard of beauty.
Against the general mentality, I believe it can’not be empowering. Why? When
we’re talking about sex objects, we’re talking about dichotomies., We think of
black and white, yes/no, two opposing categories. When we’re thinking about sex
objects, we’re thinking about the object subject dichotomy. Subjects act,
objects are acted upon.
Even if you become the
perfect object, the perfect sex object, you are perfectly subordinate because
that position will always be acted on; so there’s not power in being a sex
object when you think about it logically.
Beyond that, this idea that sex sells, I like to challenge that
directly because the fact is if sex sold, most women are heterosexual and we
are sexual beings, so why wouldn’t we see half naked men everywhere in
advertising? To men, they’re being sold this idea constantly that they are
sexual subjects. They are in the driver’s seat. It makes them feel powerful to
see images of objectified women everywhere. They can fell free to use
expressions as ‘’I could fuck her’’ as na offense.
When we will be
able to behave as human beeing, looking at eyes of each other without live in a
word which accpetpt passively that invisible social rules? I hope our society
be able to perceive that and be much more aware about woman right. It is not
about superiority. It is about equality. About freedom. About human beeing.There’s
two perspectives for objetification. The objetification metaphore: when we
consider the object and subjet of one phrase, refering to male as object means
she is considered in a secondary perspective. And the second perspective, we
could say how women is considered object and not as a human. Both of them have
been poisoned the way how woman see themselves.
We are surround by several signals of
that objetification which puts woman in second round of importance. First we
would say: the difference between
the way women and men are portrayed in national newspapers and other media is
stark - women are too often reduced to the sum of their body parts, heavily
Photoshopped to fit into an ever narrowing ideal of female beauty. Men: Sexy
pictures of men, in contrast to sexy pictures of women, frequently portray them
as sexual subjects, actors exercising their sexuality, instead of objects meant
to gratify someone else's sexuality. And for woman is even harder, considering we see men’s magazines with scantily clad women, and we
see women’s magazines with scantily clad women. Basicly that how they are
selling the idea that this is how we get
our value, becoming the ideal sex object.
And I would say, the
sexual objetification is simply the most visible part of
objectification, once we have gramar predominance: male pronouns dominate our
speech and ideas in everywere. And what about sexist expressions as ‘’he drives
like a girl’’, ‘’he is fragile as lady’’. There’s a research about the Tomb
Raider game which says people don't project themselves into Lara Croft's
character," that they think "I'm going to this adventure with her and
trying to protect her’’. And we still have to survive to stigmas like everyone
looks at it from his point of view: ‘’of course she was abused, he must have
been confused by her signals’’, ‘’of course he couldn’t resist, look for the
clothes she was using’’. And in my opinion the worst thing is even even good
men, when speaking out against violence against women, tell other men to
imagine her as "somebody's wife, somebody's mother, somebody's daughter,
or somebody's sister," it never occurring to them that maybe, just maybe,
a woman is also "somebody", another human.
Now
refering to objetification for consider woman just for their external
appearence, even
if woman could fits perfectly inside of the perfection standard of beauty.
Against the general mentality, I believe it can’not be empowering. Why? When
we’re talking about sex objects, we’re talking about dichotomies., We think of
black and white, yes/no, two opposing categories. When we’re thinking about sex
objects, we’re thinking about the object subject dichotomy. Subjects act,
objects are acted upon.
Even if you become the
perfect object, the perfect sex object, you are perfectly subordinate because
that position will always be acted on; so there’s not power in being a sex
object when you think about it logically.
Beyond that, this idea that sex sells, I like to challenge that
directly because the fact is if sex sold, most women are heterosexual and we
are sexual beings, so why wouldn’t we see half naked men everywhere in
advertising? To men, they’re being sold this idea constantly that they are
sexual subjects. They are in the driver’s seat. It makes them feel powerful to
see images of objectified women everywhere. They can fell free to use
expressions as ‘’I could fuck her’’ as na offense.
When we will be
able to behave as human beeing, looking at eyes of each other without live in a
word which accpetpt passively that invisible social rules? I hope our society
be able to perceive that and be much more aware about woman right. It is not
about superiority. It is about equality. About freedom. About human beeing.
ps: that was my English assesment. I Used a lot of ideias from other articles. I hope you enjoy.
Cheers,
Thaíza
