The Objectification Of Women In Popular Culture

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Introduction In just the short thirty-five years that I have been alive television, computers, phones and films have began to evolve at unimaginable rates. The rate that information can me transferred from one person to another amazes me on a daily basis. That being said we are able to send and receive images information from or to the society that we live in. I believe that has been a good thing but in some circumstances it has been a bad thing. When I was going up I saw magazines with beautiful women at the store, now I can click on Google, Facebook, twitter, you name it and the first things I see are images of women that many girls want to be. There body images that we see portray beautiful created by computers, women posing in “sexy” violent ways even allowing women of ages believe this is normal. I believe this is having a negative impact on today girls. On Facebook this last week, I watch a video that was heart breaking as it showed different ways in which the media …show more content…
The video posted by Omeleto was called “The Objectification of Women,” it argued “the harm caused by the objectification of women in popular culture is not theoretical” but real and we need “stand up”

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