Quotes About Objectification

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.

I am a girl, not a piece of meat.

Sometimes you feel like the only resource you have is your body or your looks.

You can't say that we need to give women more roles, and then when we do, say that they're only there because men want to look at them.

People talk about each other in the worst way, especially when you become a product for sale. You're just a thing.

I don't see a problem with looking at women as beautiful objects. I'm an artist. I don't know how to paint, but I know how to make music, and women are art.

I didn't particularly like being objectified.

Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.

Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.

Men are hung up on breasts. They're looking at the titty dinner. It's pathetic.

There's this perception that you can't be more than one thing. That if you're dubbed 'sexy' you can no longer be anything else. That you become intellectually uncomplicated, incapable of accomplishing anything other than appearing to be an object for men. And it's rubbish.

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

After you have done everything to please a man and he's taken his pleasure with you, all you are for him is a whore, and a whore's daughter.

Vulgar lyrics and suggestive, voyeuristic camera angles do not celebrate a woman's sexuality, they actually objectify her.

I am not a bimbo. But the industry doesn't look beyond my body.

I'm so aware how often women's bodies are objectified on film.

Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, roll over, and accept defeat? I hope not.

All I've ever really done is page 3 in The Sun, and not every man reads that.

It shows too much. Women are meant to be inhaled, not impaled.

She destroyed egos by the score and made men hate themselves in the morning by the way she found them, used them, and tossed them aside.

Never can you climb over this wall, you're not strong enough; girls aren't strong enough; girls aren't big enough; your body is fragile and breakable, like a doll; your body is a doll; your body is for others to admire and to pet; your body is to be used by others, not used by you; your body is a luscious fruit for others to bite into and to savor; your body is for others, not for you.

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

Let's examine the second accusation first: the idea that pornography is degrading to women. Degrading is a subjective term. Personally, I find detergent commercials in which women become orgasmic over soapsuds to be tremendously degrading to women. I find movies in which prostitutes are treated like ignorant drug addicts to be slander against women. Every woman has the right-the need!-to define degradation for herself.

Further, although pornography is predefined as a form of violence against women, several clauses of this definition have nothing to do with such abuse. Instead, they deal with explicit sexual content-e.g. women as sex objects who "invite penetration." This is more of an attack on heterosexual sex than it is on pornography. After all, if there isn't an "invitation to penetration," how can the man know that consent is present?