Quotes About Objectification

Objectification of the world gives a sense of power, and control, which is intensified by every victory of instrumental reason. And

they were no more than steaks served up to portly politicians who controlled the personnel departments of the TV stations. (Showgirls in Italy)

back in the seventies, when women began to straddle chairs and dance crotch out on television, when all the magazines started featuring behinds and inner thighs as though that's all there is to a woman, well, I shut up altogether.

She hadn't loved Randolph Carter. He had been a man like many, so wrapped and rapt in his own story that there was no room for the world around him except as it served his own tale: the black men of Parg and Kled and Sona Nyl, the gold men of Thorabon and Ophir and Rinar; and all the women invisible everywhere, except when they brought him drinks or sold him food - all walk-on parts in the play that was Randolph Carter, or even wallpaper.

The process of viewing another as consumable, as something, is usually invisible to us. Its invisibility occurs because it corresponds to the view of the dominant culture. The process is also invisible to use because the end product of the process - the object of consumption - is available everywhere.

The world was his shower and he used women for soap.

Cunt again? It was odd how men like Suggs used that word to demean women when it was the only part of a woman they valued.

Today at the beach I could feel the men dressing me with their eyes.

The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is of no concern to him.

He didn't date women. He fucked them

It seems kosher and OK to treat women as objects because the business of cinema is about images and when you have fragmented images of a woman's bosom and her swiveling hip and her twisting navel, it robs the woman of all autonomy and subjects her to the male gaze.

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

Throughout history, men have primarily been valued for their game, and women have primarily been valued for their physical attributes.

Barry (1995) defines prostitution as sexual exploitation: 'when the human being is reduced to a body, objectified to sexually service another, whether or not there is consent, violation of the human being has taken place'.

Women's bodies have always been used as a spectacle and objectified.

The roles I used to be cast for were typically objectified women, so I was always being shown or spoken about through the lens of the guy.

Unfortunately, most men would only be interested in a woman's mind if it bounced when she walked.

Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.

Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.

For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.

The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.

dehumanizing the opposite sex

We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it.

What woman wants a camera following around her naked butt?