Exploring The Role Of Objectification In Relationships

Today we talked about marriage witch honestly I do not know much about in he slightest bit. Don’t get me wrong I see married people and get to observe them and their relationship, but I have never got to experience it myself. The first thing discussed in class was the difference between objectivation verse objectification. The one that really stuck out to me the most was objectification especially as a young woman. Objectification means treating someone like an object. There are still certain stereotypes today that people associate with woman especially when they are married. Some go like this: women are made to be in the kitchen, they are to take care of the kids and the house work. Now as times go on these stated to become more of a joke and fade away, they are still …show more content…
My parents are very different in how they do things and how they want things to be done. For example, laundry in my house my dad is supper particular about how his clothes hang and they ways they face in the closet as to where my mom just wants it done and put away however you decide. So when my dad’s laundry get mixed in with ours we just have to lay it on the bed so he cant do it because if we do it the wrong way he just has a fit. They had to compromise on how to make sure everyone is satisfied in the house. The same thing with many things in my house my parents are different in many aspects so they just split up the chores so that each of them can be done they way they want it to be done. Which is confusing for me because depending on the area of the house is how it gets cleaned. If I don’t do it my moms way she makes me re-do it and its its not don’t my dads way I have to re-do it. For the most part that is really what I am able to grasp from these concepts about marriage now until maybe one day I get to experience it