Objectification Never Seen This Good Summary

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In this story, “Objectification Never Looked This Good,” is about the author, Stephanie Hurtado-Hoyos, describing how females are treated as and considers as an “Object.” This particular story describes how the females are considered and viewed to be “sexy” from their childhood. This story also explains and blames that a girl or a woman has to take for being sexy and being raped. This story explains why boys are not considered as a blame for rapping women. Women are a blame themselves for showing off their body and for tempting men into the position where they rape the women. And when women get raped, it is all the girl’s fault for showing of her body and tempting the guy. When it comes to the boy, the society declares that he could not control his hormones.
In this story, there is some brief discussion about schools and school dress codes. When it comes to me, I went to schooling in India until I was in second semester of sixth grade. In India, schools have uniforms to avoid the “Objectification” of girls. My school wanted us to wear Churidar, which contains a long pant, with a shirt going down till your knees and a scarf that should cover your breast (image at the end). In this way, I feel that my school did not promote girls as being girly, cute, or as an object. During these years, I never felt
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For example, when I was living in India, there were rape cases, but not as many as today. Until 2010ish, in India, most of the women wore Indian clothing and they did not expose as much as they do today. Today, when you go to India, there is so much of western culture than there is Indian culture. Being westernized does not mean that it leads to rape, but the type of clothing people chooses to wear leads to rape. I personally feel that, the advertisements through movies and social media are the biggest promotions in changing culture very

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