Quotes About Objectification

I wonder if you men have any idea of how insulting it is to women when you assume that all we can offer is our bodies?

It's hard to always be reduced to the way you look or your sex appeal or what that is.

Girls are telling me to take my shirt off. It's like, 'Hello! I'm a person, too!'

The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch.

I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object.

To be honest, I really don't like being the sex object.

If a man wants to objectify a woman, he will do it even if she's clad from head to toe.

I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.

The hardhearted person never sees people as a people, but rather as mere objects or as impersonal cogs in an ever-turning wheel. In the vast wheel of industry, he sees men as hands. In the massive wheel of big city life, he sees men as digits in a multitude. In the deadly wheel of army life, he sees men as numbers in a regiment. He depersonalizes life.

The hardhearted individual never sees people as people, but rather as mere objects or as impersonal cogs in an ever-turning wheel. In the vast wheel of industry, he sees men as hands … He depersonalizes life.

Thus music is as immediate an objectification and copy of the whole will as the world itself is

Is it any coincidence that the plastic surgeons most interested in pushing breast reconstruction and most involved in the superficial aspects of women's breasts speak the language of sexist pigs?

Traditionally, in american society, it is the members of oppressed, objectified groups who are expected to stretch out and bridge the gap between the actualities of our lives and the consciousness of our oppressor. For in order to survive, those of us for whom oppression is as american as apple pie have always had to be watchers, to become familiar with the language and manners of the oppressor, even sometimes adopting them for some illusion of protection.

At what age did men mature? If ever? And at what age did a woman cease having to deal with men acting as if they owned the right to lustfully indulge in a woman, be it with his eyes or hands? There was more to a woman than a womb and breasts.

I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees her is better than she actually is. And I think it's bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera.

Me parece mal cuando un chico mira a una chica y cree que su forma de mirarla es mejor que la chica en sí misma. Y me parece mal cuando la forma más sincera con la que un chico puede mirar a una chica es a través de una cámara.

Unless individuals have the power to defy commoditization and define their own lives, their potential is vulnerable to the crushing forces of objectification.

You're like Marilyn Monroe,' Ken tells me, which I take as a compliment and say a nervous "Thank You". Interrupting, he adds, 'You're all velvet and Velcro. Men want you because you're sexy and broken and when it gets too rough they can say "Hey! This toy is broken!" and toss you aside without feeling bad.

I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination.

A través de Internet y las redes sociales se pueden conseguir las imágenes sexuales más alucinantes, sorprendentes y depravadas que puedan imaginarse. Se trata de materiales en los que la mujer es humillada y presentada como objeto de placer, de usar y tirar, de subordinación y sumisión servil.

Nada rebaja más a un ser humano que los piropos —concluyó—. Y a ustedes las educan para creer que son adoradas al recibirlos.

By turning names into things we create false models of reality. By endowing nations, societies or cultures, with the qualities of internally homogeneous and externally distinctive bounded objects, we create a model of the world as a global pool hall in which the entities spin off each other line so many hard and round billiard balls

I sometimes think people hire me only for my eyes. If they could, they'd probably say, please leave your eyes on the set, we don't need the rest of you.

People look at you and see a product. They don't see a soul. They see an empty hole.