What Are The Effects of Society Slut Shaming or Sexualizing Young Girls? “Girls may not only experience feelings of shame due to being sexualized, but they may also develop eating disorders, low self-esteem, and depression” (Sexualization 1). This issue, Body Image, has been even more of an issue to our generation and should be addressed more than it is currently being addressed. Body image is a very serious topic because the way we see each other and criticize each other, has an effect mentally and physically. The first article, “The Sexualization of Girls is Harmful”, with an unlisted author. The author states that sexualization in fact is harmful and shows how it comes into play with the growing of girls and boys. It also states that
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They are then sent out of class to change her clothing, it’s seen as “inappropriate” and distracting to male students. I am using examples from my own sixteen year old eyes being a high school student, I have witnessed this at first hand. Why should a girl have to be sent out of class, lose her education time because a sixteen year old sexually driven boy is being distracted by skin, we need to stop sexualizing the female body. “Negative sexualization of teen girls by peers, by characterizing them as sluts” (Sexualization 4). First off, the actual definition of a slut is, “a woman who has many casual sexual partners” (Google). Some synonyms were, promiscuous woman, prostitute, and whore. Another definition was, “a woman with low standards of cleanliness” (Google). Why does the fact that I’m wearing some shorts or whatever I may be wearing categorize me as a slut? By definition what I wear has nothing to do with the actual dictionary definition. “Girls as young as 10 experience sexual harassment at school” (Sexualization 4). This can also go hand and hand with my last quote, forcing a girl to change because it’s inappropriate is in fact a form of sexual harassment because she doesn’t make it inappropriate matter a fact, you do by the way you look at her. It is possible that some people could claim that Body Image doesn’t affect young girls. But on the contrary, “there is growing …show more content…
But do those models even look like that in real life, or is it photoshop? Something to consider when viewing these photos while feeling upset, photoshop gives unrealistic images of what we as females should look like. A former CoverGirl model named, Ann Simonton for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, CoverGirl, etc. “She was getting ready for a photo shoot with other famous models and they were all complaining about parts of their bodies… these models were the principle of beauty that society was holding up as every woman’s ideal, yet it still wasn’t good enough, the shoot would be airbrushed” (Images 2). How is the media supposed to promote the what they would call an “ideal image” of the woman body but that isn’t even real and later be airbrushed for the magazine cover. There should be a law against photoshopping the man or woman body without her direct consent. “Up to 81% of music videos contain sexual imagery, sexually objectifies woman” (Sexualization 2-3). Why does the media need to promote nudity in a sexual sense to grab attention from its viewers. The body is a beautiful piece of art the media should not sexualize the body and lead society to believe that our body is sexual and that we should be ashamed of how our body looks and whatnot. It is possible that the media believes that they are not at fault of how society views
They are then sent out of class to change her clothing, it’s seen as “inappropriate” and distracting to male students. I am using examples from my own sixteen year old eyes being a high school student, I have witnessed this at first hand. Why should a girl have to be sent out of class, lose her education time because a sixteen year old sexually driven boy is being distracted by skin, we need to stop sexualizing the female body. “Negative sexualization of teen girls by peers, by characterizing them as sluts” (Sexualization 4). First off, the actual definition of a slut is, “a woman who has many casual sexual partners” (Google). Some synonyms were, promiscuous woman, prostitute, and whore. Another definition was, “a woman with low standards of cleanliness” (Google). Why does the fact that I’m wearing some shorts or whatever I may be wearing categorize me as a slut? By definition what I wear has nothing to do with the actual dictionary definition. “Girls as young as 10 experience sexual harassment at school” (Sexualization 4). This can also go hand and hand with my last quote, forcing a girl to change because it’s inappropriate is in fact a form of sexual harassment because she doesn’t make it inappropriate matter a fact, you do by the way you look at her. It is possible that some people could claim that Body Image doesn’t affect young girls. But on the contrary, “there is growing …show more content…
But do those models even look like that in real life, or is it photoshop? Something to consider when viewing these photos while feeling upset, photoshop gives unrealistic images of what we as females should look like. A former CoverGirl model named, Ann Simonton for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, CoverGirl, etc. “She was getting ready for a photo shoot with other famous models and they were all complaining about parts of their bodies… these models were the principle of beauty that society was holding up as every woman’s ideal, yet it still wasn’t good enough, the shoot would be airbrushed” (Images 2). How is the media supposed to promote the what they would call an “ideal image” of the woman body but that isn’t even real and later be airbrushed for the magazine cover. There should be a law against photoshopping the man or woman body without her direct consent. “Up to 81% of music videos contain sexual imagery, sexually objectifies woman” (Sexualization 2-3). Why does the media need to promote nudity in a sexual sense to grab attention from its viewers. The body is a beautiful piece of art the media should not sexualize the body and lead society to believe that our body is sexual and that we should be ashamed of how our body looks and whatnot. It is possible that the media believes that they are not at fault of how society views