The Objectification Of Women In The Media

"Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?" At a young age, every kid has been taught that image plays an immense role in how we perceive ourselves. In today's society, we are bombarded with many expectations infused in the media like advertisements, movies, and the internet that have negative influences on the youth. Girls receive Barbies and Polly pockets, while boys receive WWE wrestling action figures that, as a result, epitomize how the ideal body is supposed to look. Many agencies such as VOGUE, Calvin Klein, and Victoria's Secret, all have one thing in common: They are all victims of the continuous practice of using models that are preferably skinny and or good looking to publicize their merchandise. These tactics are
According to Public Disclosure, Men, on the other hand, inordinately desire muscle mass and muscular tone, leading in turn to steroid abuse and the dangerous over-ingestion of unregulated muscle-building supplements. In various advertisements where men are supposed to be selling fragrances or clothing, they are hypersexualized by the camera only focusing on their muscles, chiseled chest, and crotch area. 1000’s of advertisements are being broadcasted every day, so just imagine the plethora of objectification that is taking place. Having men exposed to this type of production will lead them to do anything in order to achieve this type of praise and/or recognition. This also intertwines with counter objectification, which is the phenomenon of women objectifying men feeding into men objectifying women creating a two-way street so neither can “complain”. This happens when younger men finally get an idea of how they are being treated in the media and become angry and start to show “sexual animosity”. This makes them develop an aggressive sexuality, which leads to negative consequences for both males and
Perfection is what everybody strives for; Whether it's in their career, or in a current project, but in this case it’s our image. Trying to achieve what you want is a great thing and it’s a hobby that should be considered by everybody, but when you start to obsess over it, it becomes a burden. We have to stop our continuous pickiness and become cordial with ourselves. Focusing our attention upon what is not realistic will only make us become tangled in our own insecurities, which is already bad enough considering the expectations set in the media. If we want to be successful in not being misconstrued as objects, we need to speak out against the objectification of the