Social perception is how people form an impression and make inferences about other people, but their perception of you doesn’t necessarily has to be true or the reality of your perception. Specially females in our society always are seen as a THING for sexual pleasure, which is not a new concept, it has happened in 20th century when women were being abused and sexually perceived in work field. In that era women stood up and became the feminists of the century. It’s about time that history repeats itself and women comes out on streets, and show these wolf’s (men) that they are united and strong. Naomi Wolf’s text “THE MAKING OF A SLUT” explains a lot of the social perception concept, she consists an example from her own experience. Social perception
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They were basically living a life with no rights of any kind. But then the rise of feminism came in they stood up for their rights and started to gain power in politics and leaderships. But this wasn’t yet helping women get their freedom of sexuality and growing in their womanhood. As Naomi Wolf stated in her text that “Many women of my mother’s generation told their stories of sexual coming-of-age in their shadow of the repressive hypocrisy, and of the finding themselves by casting off the era’s inhibitions.” this certainly explains the situations of women in this era, the position of a female restrictions and the need of a rise for women rights. The feminist engaged itself to produce more and more organizations such as National Organization for Woman (NOW) and the most important one Equal Rights for Women (ERA). These movement and organization was another way of showing the feminists unity and power. But on the lighter side crime was at its …show more content…
Feminist always condemned pornography and saw it as violence against women. Feminists view is that a woman’s right to control her own sexuality is the key. But one of the known feminist Catherine MacKinnon argues that women have very less control over it, and it’s largely being controlled and also define by men. She is working toward changing the legal posture of pornography by framing it as a form of sex discrimination, She states that We define pornography as the graphic sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures and words that also includes (i) women are presented dehumanized as sexual objects, things, or commodities; or (ii) women are presented as sexual objects who enjoy humiliation or pain; or (iii) women are presented as sexual objects experiencing sexual pleasure in rape, incest or other sexual assault; or (iv) women are presented as sexual objects tied up, cut up or mutilated or bruised or physically hurt; or (v) women are presented in postures or positions of sexual submission, servility, or display; or (vi) women's body parts—including but not limited to vaginas, breasts, or buttocks—are exhibited such that women are reduced to those parts; or (vii) women are presented being penetrated by objects or animals; or (viii) women are presented in scenarios of degradation,
They were basically living a life with no rights of any kind. But then the rise of feminism came in they stood up for their rights and started to gain power in politics and leaderships. But this wasn’t yet helping women get their freedom of sexuality and growing in their womanhood. As Naomi Wolf stated in her text that “Many women of my mother’s generation told their stories of sexual coming-of-age in their shadow of the repressive hypocrisy, and of the finding themselves by casting off the era’s inhibitions.” this certainly explains the situations of women in this era, the position of a female restrictions and the need of a rise for women rights. The feminist engaged itself to produce more and more organizations such as National Organization for Woman (NOW) and the most important one Equal Rights for Women (ERA). These movement and organization was another way of showing the feminists unity and power. But on the lighter side crime was at its …show more content…
Feminist always condemned pornography and saw it as violence against women. Feminists view is that a woman’s right to control her own sexuality is the key. But one of the known feminist Catherine MacKinnon argues that women have very less control over it, and it’s largely being controlled and also define by men. She is working toward changing the legal posture of pornography by framing it as a form of sex discrimination, She states that We define pornography as the graphic sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures and words that also includes (i) women are presented dehumanized as sexual objects, things, or commodities; or (ii) women are presented as sexual objects who enjoy humiliation or pain; or (iii) women are presented as sexual objects experiencing sexual pleasure in rape, incest or other sexual assault; or (iv) women are presented as sexual objects tied up, cut up or mutilated or bruised or physically hurt; or (v) women are presented in postures or positions of sexual submission, servility, or display; or (vi) women's body parts—including but not limited to vaginas, breasts, or buttocks—are exhibited such that women are reduced to those parts; or (vii) women are presented being penetrated by objects or animals; or (viii) women are presented in scenarios of degradation,