Quotes About Objectification

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

It is a difficult one, as you get scripts where women are just objects.

Our distorted media culture sees men as subjects and women as objects; in films, Woody Allen gets older and older and still dates 20-year-old babes; movies about women are called 'chick flicks,' and men make fun of them.

The reason I keep talking about a wife and saying the word 'wife' on stage is because it seems a funny word to me. The more you say it, the more it seems to detach from that person and become this sort of abstract thing: that you would set out to find a wife, that it would be an objective like buying a new car.

El papel de chica. Poner vocecita de niña. Usar zapatos planos para asegurarte de no ser más alta que él. La mano grande en tu hombro. Él diciéndote que todo saldrá bien. «Estás guapísima», dicho así,con esa autoridad. Dejarle tomar el mando. Dejarle conducir. Dejarle decidir. Él llevándote en brazos a la cama. El subidón de sentirte sexualmente indefensa ante eso. Ser un objeto de deseo para los hombres. Hasta nunca.

Being talked about like a package - I feel like that all the time.

El crimen del loco consiste en que se prefiere a los demás. Esta preferencia impía me repugna en los que matan y me espanta en los que aman. La criatura amada ya no es, para esos avaros, sino una moneda de oro en que crispar los dedos. Ya no es un dios: apenas es una cosa. Me niego a hacer de ti un objeto, ni siquiera el Objeto amado. (p. 50)

The world as it has very little use for your womanhood. You are considered a weaker sex and are treated as a sexual object. You are thoroughly dispensable except for bearing children. Your youth is the measure of your worth, and your age is the measure of your worthlessness. Do not look to the world for your sustenance or for your identity as a woman because you will not find them there. The world despises you.

Erotica celebrates women and sexuality. Pornography violates women and demeans sex.

Objectification is rooted in disrespect, condescending views of the opposite gender, and power struggles. When men realize that they have the capability to fundamentally respect women, and women realize that they have the power to present themselves as empowered, fully capable people, raunch culture may moan its last and final faked orgasm.

A tawdry, cartoonlike version of female sexuality has become so ubiquitous, it no longer seems particular. What we once regarded as a *kind* of sexual expression we now regard *as* sexuality.

Proving that you are hot, worthy of lust, and—necessarily—that you seek to provoke lust is still exclusively women's work.

Do everything you can to get men to look at you, and when they do, pretend they don't exist. Because only a slut looks back. Is that perfectly clear? Early lesson on the female condition.

Woman] is simply what man decrees; thus she is called the sex, by which is meant that she appears essentially to the male as a sexual being. For him she is sex -- absolute sex, no less. She is defined and differentiated with reference to man and not he with reference to her; she is incidental, the inessential as opposed to the essential. He is the Subject, he is the Absolute -- she is the Other.

Masculine desire is as much an offence as it is a compliment; in so far as she feels herself responsible for her charm, or feels she is exerting it of her own accord, she is much pleased with her conquests, but to the extent that her face, her figure, her flesh are facts she must bear with, she wants to hide them from this independent stranger who lusts after them.

modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.

The prostitute is the sum of all types of feminine slavery at once.

the little girl feels that her body is escaping her, that it is no longer the clear expression of her individuality; it becomes foreign to her; and at the same moment, she is grasped by others as a thing; on the street, eyes follow her, her body is subject to comments; she would like to become invisible she is afraid of becoming flesh and afraid to show her flesh

She [the female] appears essentially to the male as a sexual being. For him she is sex - absolute sex, no less.

ByÃ…Â¥ ženou znamená byÃ…Â¥ objektom, tou Druhou.

for not only does the woman of fashion project herself into things, she has chosen to make herself a thing.

Indeed, if they had read Moubayed's article, what might have struck them most is that they appeared only as a supporting cast, their safety and well-being hardly given a nod to. The thrust of the argument was that prostitution should be accepted because it benefits men. Nor was Moubayed's flip remark to me about the material obsessions of "nagging" women an Oscar-winning moment.

Pornography tells lies about women. But pornography tells the truth about men.

He said, 'They're only whores,' as though their very availability rendered them worthless.