Quotes About Objectification

They can't walk down the street or order a coffee or stand on a corner without some idiot making a comment about how attractive they are. And then woman smile because it's easier than telling them to go fuck themselves. And less dangerous, because if a man rejects a woman, she goes home and cries for a few days. If a woman rejects a man, he can rape and kill her.

Men fear being used; women fear being used up.

Women aren't interested in being sexy any more and men are. All the guys have objectified themselves and sexualised themselves into being just matinee idols.

We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.

I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me, because they assumed things about my mental capacity or my physical willingness based on the way I look.

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all

If you organize your life around your own wants, other people become objects for the satisfaction of your own desires. Everything is coldly instrumental. Just as a prostitute is rendered into an object for the satisfaction of orgasm, so a professional colleague is rendered into an object for the purpose of career networking, a stranger is rendered into an object for the sake of making a sale, a spouse is turned into an object for the purpose of providing you with love.

Asians love schoolgirls in uniforms. They say the Japanese can buy used schoolgirl panties from vending machines. And from shops hidden away in apartment buildings. Burusera shops, they call them. The smell is very important; it adds value to the commodity. I wonder how Marx would have dealt with that?

She pulled the phone back to look at her photo, then, drawn by its ruthless intensity, kissed the image. Her lips left semen smears on the screen. Commodity fetishism at its finest.

The camera also took a moment or two to linger on Chase's athletic breasts, her erect nipples, and her pubic hair, which was dirty blond and luxuriant and not at all in the modern prepubescent shaven-porn idiom which Naomi loathed;

Given the shortage of women in California during these early years of white settlement, "a likely young girl" might cost almost double that of a boy, because, as the Marysville Appeal phrased it, girls served the double duty "of labor and of lust.

There are still men who come up to me today and say, 'You were really hot in that film!' I was 14, for God's sake!

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries.

a pretty girl, who naked is is worth a million statues

even their own employees, are no more than digits on a balance sheet, lifeless objects to be used, then discarded.

Why do women always get pointed at for their bodies?

I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

Maybe one day I'll have a big hit, and the world will make a big sex symbol out of me like they always do when there's a new chick.

I felt like I was in the wrong body, especially when you're considered a sex symbol.

I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. You're merchandised, you're a product.