Objectification

Since 2008, nineteen superhero movies have been made, and not one has had a female superhero in the main role, until Wonder Woman (Behrens). Wonder Woman is one of two superhero films to have a female director. Yet, female superheroes have impacted the world both socially and culturally, while also being a source of feminism, more specifically liberal feminism. Liberal feminism can be defined as a movement fighting for gender equality, autonomy of women, and equal political rights (Bahre). This…

The sexualization of women is a big issue that affects how women and men perceive women. Everywhere, you see pictures of women in ads or shows. They seem to look normal, but they are almost always explicitly portrayed sexually, childlike, or submissive. Advertisements for cars or even sandwiches, they are hypersexualized, a term meaning that “a person’s value only comes from his or her sexual appeal or behavior to the exclusion of other characteristics” The APA Task Force on the Sexualisation of…

Beginning from a young age we create our identity in relation to what we see around us. If we are shown women being sexualized, as victims or in domestic roles, we are likely to accept it as being normal. The gender inequality being demonstrated in the media has many consequences. For example, when women are being portrayed as weak and passive, it can seem very unusual for them to be independent and powerful in our society. This can be injurious to both women and men’s ideas about what career…

The fact that women have breasts and a vagina, unlike men, has brought up the question throughout the week whether these different body parts allow women to feel a source of empowerment, or if it allows men to have power over women through objectification of these body parts? The movie Teeth helps answer and shows how these two questions are somewhat ambiguous, because in reality the answer to these questions is both. Throughout the course of the movie, Dawn’s knowledge and conformability…

Undressing Patriarchy to Address Inequality Socially constructed gender roles manifest in distinctive ways, from differences between men and woman in the workplace to discrepancies in the household. The hierarchy established by such differences has created a division between the genders. Consequently, this division has taken the form of patriarchy where the male dominates and the female succumbs. In both the American and the Igbo culture the value of women depends on the acknowledgement they…

Marketing and advertisements have allowed for the inequality between men and women. As time progresses, the sexual objectification of gender has become weaved into our society’s culture. As many who study under the branches of Communications, Media and Marketing, they have become no stranger to the objectification of women in the media. The submissiveness of women can also lead to the consideration as how men are perceived through the eyes of one’s individual gender. Fashion advertisements…

her aristocratic parents. After recognizing her objectification, Daisy hopes that Pammy is a “beautiful little fool”(17) that never recognizes that she too is an object. Daisy may be worthy of some compassion because she grew up in this life, used as an object since birth. The first time Daisy and Nick are alone Daisy admits, “Everything is terrible anyhow” (17) in reference to the life she is living. She has a right to be angry at her objectification, her corrupt husband and her new…

Through her marriage with Tea Cake, Janie was, finally, able to escape the cycle of objectification. Unlike Logan, who objectified Janie as a slave, or Jody, who objectified Janie as a trophy-wife, Tea Cake humanized Janie and treated her as a human being (113). He did this by allowing Janie to play checkers with him and offering to teach her…

Professor of psychology at Ohio State University, Tracy Tylka, states “instead of seeing a decrease in objectification of women in society, there has just been an increase in the objectification of men” (qtd. in Grabmeier). The gender roles expected of men are taught explicitly and implicitly beginning at birth, and peer pressure helps reinforce them throughout a person’s life. Adolescent boys,…

Extreme caricatures, to an extent, can be very important to media and raising issues through their ridiculousness. However, the objectification of the few women who are even written into the movie is a terrible demonstration for our youth. Meanwhile the depiction of what a man should be, and the idea that only those traits will please women can severely hurt many young male’s image of…