How Does Social Media Encourage The Sexualization Of Women

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The sexualization of women in the media has been around for many years and we see these photos everywhere in magazines, on billboards, social media, even in advertisements for fast food sadly these hypersexualized images are becoming much more popular and throughout the last 3 decades the amount of sexualizing characteristics in these advertisements has tripled and has become quite "normal" for us to see and the only time we notice it is when it goes just a step too far we are constantly bombarded with these hypersexualized photos of women so much that we don't notice them their messages so blatant they encourage the normalization of women being objectified and when young girls see these photos they think that this is what they should look

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