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Quotes About Objectification

They grab you by the breasts, they pluck your derriere, they stuff you in a pot, they saute you with sperm, they grab you by the beak, they stick you in a house, they fatten you up on conjugal oil, they shut you up in your cage. And now, lay.
~ Helene Cixous
All right, he thought, okay; if thats the way it is; a savagery of anger in him now at the picture. They call them pin-up girls and think its cute how our boys, now that they're drafted, love to hang them in their wall lockers. And then close up all the whorehouses, every place they can, so our young men will not be contaminated.
~ James Jones
People are sold over this desk just like cattle in the Chicago yards, and for exactly the same reason: they've got the points the buyer wants. All right, now take a look at something that does concern you. See those greens? That means 'No Married Women.
~ James M. Cain
Having been a 'Page 3' model I know what is it like to be singled out as one thing, to be dismissed as unintelligent and only possessing one quality.
~ Keeley Hazell
I like our ads. I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis. I think it's very American.
~ Andrew Puzder
In real life, women dont enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.
~ Jackson Katz
Women are here to serve men. Look at them, they got to squat to piss. Hell, that proves it.
~ Larry Flynt
Above all else she mustn't think that using her body will help her attain her goal. Men use women who play seductively, and then they look down on them.
~ Dacia Maraini
Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized.
~ Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.
~ Toyin Odutola
There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.
~ Laurence J. Peter
It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.
~ Andrew Cohen
Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Women are often only in the media to be victimised or objectified
~ Caroline Criado-Perez
The attention that's being projected by men who simply watch you walking down the street, in the office, or in bed, in most cases, is going to be extremely destructive.
~ Frederick Lenz
There was something, which was the turning point: I felt very strongly that women were sexualized, and perceived like they are sexual in every move, and it started off really early.
~ Deniz Gamze Erguven
I have a problem with objectifying women, but I don't have a problem playing a guy who objectifies women.
~ Emilio Estevez
When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?
~ Julie Burchill
Dominican men are told to look at women all the time, but they're definitely not told to see them.
~ Junot Diaz
Women's bodies are used to sell anything and everything because it works, it grabs people's attention, and advertisers aren't going to stop using something that works.
~ Liz Phair
Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Men use women sexually. They use them, mistreat them, even from the point of view of vocabulary, the use of words. It baffles me.
~ Maria Teresa Horta
Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?
~ Milan Kundera
Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable, artless ingenue.
~ Naomi Wolf