Prompt title: “Seeing Eye to Body: The Literal Objectification of Women”
Prompt authors: Nathan A. Heflick and Jamie L. Goldenberg The main point of this article is that women are often objectified due to having their bodies sexualized. This objectification leads to women acting sort of like objects because they self-objectify themselves, meaning that they are focused on changing themselves, or how they look, instead of focusing on how they are mentally. These objectifications can be due to the way they appear physically. Due to this objectification, women are perceived as being less human, meaning that they do not have the same characteristics as people such as: warmth, capability and ethics. Women tend to be inert when it is their body that …show more content…
Seeing that women are always objectified in magazines and in movies, it makes me change the way I perceive myself and it changes the way that I think how others perceive me. This in turn makes me objectify myself because I try to make it to where I look like those women from the entertainment industry. In doing so, I am basically going to look like them, like an object. This experience that I have had, supports the thesis because when trying to change the way that I look, it is to attract people and it is sexualizing myself. Right now, I may not be sexualized because men and women do not see women that are on the heavier side as sexy or attractive, but it does increase the way they perceive me mentally. This may also be due to the race that I am. Coming from an Asian background, I am usually perceived as smart, but there are others that perceive Asians as objects as well based on their attractiveness to Asians. For me, all I’m being perceived as is smart, because my body does not match those that are usually objectified. I too, have objectified women. In my experience, when I see women that dress in a certain way, I assume that they just want to show their body off and that they are somehow lower than me as a human
Prompt authors: Nathan A. Heflick and Jamie L. Goldenberg The main point of this article is that women are often objectified due to having their bodies sexualized. This objectification leads to women acting sort of like objects because they self-objectify themselves, meaning that they are focused on changing themselves, or how they look, instead of focusing on how they are mentally. These objectifications can be due to the way they appear physically. Due to this objectification, women are perceived as being less human, meaning that they do not have the same characteristics as people such as: warmth, capability and ethics. Women tend to be inert when it is their body that …show more content…
Seeing that women are always objectified in magazines and in movies, it makes me change the way I perceive myself and it changes the way that I think how others perceive me. This in turn makes me objectify myself because I try to make it to where I look like those women from the entertainment industry. In doing so, I am basically going to look like them, like an object. This experience that I have had, supports the thesis because when trying to change the way that I look, it is to attract people and it is sexualizing myself. Right now, I may not be sexualized because men and women do not see women that are on the heavier side as sexy or attractive, but it does increase the way they perceive me mentally. This may also be due to the race that I am. Coming from an Asian background, I am usually perceived as smart, but there are others that perceive Asians as objects as well based on their attractiveness to Asians. For me, all I’m being perceived as is smart, because my body does not match those that are usually objectified. I too, have objectified women. In my experience, when I see women that dress in a certain way, I assume that they just want to show their body off and that they are somehow lower than me as a human