The Sexualization of Women and Girls

Amy Benfer was correct when she wrote "The history of feminism is the history of women attempting to excommunicate each other from the High Priestesshood."

Women who don't have much if any sexual attention/manipulation power over men are deeply envious and resentful of those who do. Giving men even a shred of what they might like or enjoy is a betrayal of all the goals of feminism and the Sistahood, so they have to inject their puerile concerns by trying to change the subject back to, you guessed it, their own miserable selves.

Porn does not turn men off from the real thing, the behaviors and actions of 'real' women do that easily enough.

This annual bitch-fest, temper-tantrum, and parasitic attention-whoring over a magazine hardly anyone ever pays attention to otherwise is part of the campaign. It demonstrates why feminism leads inevitably to the objectification of women and the pornification of society.

Then the hamster wheel endorphins kick in and the failures of feminism are used as justification for even more feminism. Look at that sucker spin!

One point i'd add is that when you read "media influence" we're not talking about only traditional media,like magazines and TV,but,specially among teenagers (including pre-teens),there's like the "porn phenomenon" going on.That is,with internet so close to us (i'm 17),is much more easier to access online porn than the 90's and also the first decades of 00's.Unlike Martian,i do think this over-exposure of porn modifies man's view about women.We know,from scientific research,that when participants were asked to rate women (randomly chose and pre-classified as average attractive) after they watched a porn movie or simply gave a look at Playboy or Penthouse,they consistently attributed lower rates to those women.
I think the solution to the problem starts with parents,ok,you can't completely protect your children from the sexualized world,but you can educate them to interpret it.

Men turn towards porn because "real" women have turned obese. Saying men are fat as well doesn't change this fact. The diseased physiques and masculinized personalities of the majority of women don't trigger attraction. I wonder why men don't want to 'man up' and date them.

About media portrayals:

A: Media are a reflection on a culture. When everybody is starving the ideal is a fuller body type. When everyone stuffs themselves to death a skinnier version will be displayed. Skeletal runway models are not selected by straight men, mind you. These are made by and for women.

B: Who consumes all this crap? Where men resort to porn and games, women buy these degenerate magazines about Kim Kardashian, the epitome of vanity and non-productivity, or the baby of some singer.

C: Men are portrayed in a very 'narrow' way too, but they don't whine. Sculpted bodies only achievable with steroid hormones and jocky, alpha personalities that the women swoon for, while nerds are made fun of. You know why these male and female 'narrow' ideals exist? Because the standard of what is attractive for humans is very narrow: biology knows what's up.

These feminists rhetorics are purely intended to cast women as the victims to gain more power for the industry based on it. And then everybody wonders why America is not competitive anymore. You have made your beds...

K,i agree with you.You almost think if the media only tries to reflect the image of the opposite body-types of its time.We,fast food machines,are gaining weight fast (50% of americans are obese),so the media gets these skinny models on the cover.There's a funny experiment,described in Jena Pincott's book(Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes ?).Scientists would stand in front of a restaurant(i think it was near a university,so the majority of the sample was composed by young students) and would randomly pick candidates,50% were coming out of the restaurant(so they're full) and the another half was entering it.When interviewed,the person would give a rate to some photos of women,divided between skinny and a more "massive"(i forgot the proper term) ones.Note that this part of students that were entering the restaurant reported being hungry.So,the interesting part is that who was just walking out tended to prefer skinny women,and the other part,the contrary.So,it seems that even our beauty standards,wich was tought to be relatively stable over a period of time,can be "adjusted" to a basic and diary need such as satiety.

When "anal" is the new "oral", you're trying to tell me that the porn industry isn't affecting how men and women are relating to each other? Men who watch porn want a very different sexual relationship than a man who hasn't seen porn. Porn sex doesn't get a woman off no matter how much she moans [like is expected]. I agree with Breno.

I'd also add that, in the U.S., we're having a strongly misogynistic backlash against women's rights currently. Our culture is one that is based on Eve being the downfall of man and all women since then are responsible.

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First of all, we live in a competitive world. Both men and women will always try their best to look as attractive as possible in order to attract the best mate possible. We currently do not live in a gender equal society, which is why a woman's value leans more toward her physical attractiveness and a man's value leans more toward his earning capability.

Let's explore this dynamic.

Let's assume we have a gender equal society- both genders work equally throughout all stages of life, both are earning the same amount, both are sexualized in the media to the same degree. If all things are equal, who will raise your kids?

Your kids will spend time with the TV, baby sitters, school and friends. This is where your kids will learn their values.

Maybe you believe you or your spouse has better values to teach your kids than these other sources, so one of you stays home to raise the kids while the other one works. If one person stays home then it might as well be the mother since she will be out of commission giving birth anyway. In either scenario it seems like we have a similar outcome.

In the first scenario the kid will learn that women are supposed to be sexy and their value is based on their appearance as dictated by mass media and society at large.

In the second scenario the kid will learn that women are supposed to have and take care of the kids, the home and their value is based on these contributions.

Either way, there is a fine line or perhaps no difference between the two outcomes, but it does seem like a woman staying at home raising her kids has a better chance of imparting good values than leaving it up to the mass media/society at large who is known for making people feel bad about themselves in order to make a sale. After a few generations of kids with good values infiltrating the workforce I think we'll see some change. By the way, have you ever met a home schooled kid and seen how amazing they are? Great manners, happy, and smart as can be!

Sexualization of Men & Boys no different than Sexualization of Women & Girls - it's the sexualization of power, for which it's done that gets humans confused!

Adding onto this article, I'd like to recommend checking out the website www.about-face.org . Here, you can read more about how to take action and help women and children create a positive body image. Let's take more action since that does more than reading!

i get that you might of had a hard life and all, but you were not really qualified to write this article, and its extremely offensive to some women. Actually every man I've ever met actually prefers th "curvy" or "overweight" women, but the way you displayed the men in your atricle makes it seem like all men are the same as well as dogs. I've been in a steady relationship for 2 years and hes only kissed 1 other girl, i didnt know untill HE told me, he felt gi;ty about it too. So im not saying you shouldnt post, but just post stuff that supports both sides of a story and something you are an expert on.

Guess again, Fatty.

Be careful Catherine. You stated your words in this article in a precise way that I can't disagree with. However, be sure to make the distinction between objectification and sexualization. Objectification, or lose of human's agency, is never good. On the flip side, Sexualization is an intrinsic part of humanity and how we procreate. If involving consenting adults, there is nothing wrong with men and women sexualizing each other. These two words are often misused and confuse people about the morality of it all.

Feminism is cancer that is caused by women which makes MGTOW the real cure.

At least since the industrial build up to WWI, women have had the means by which to support themselves economically. Granted, parity with male income took a long time to achieve, and the right to maintain their own credit outside the permission of their husbands was among the last things women gained for themselves. I recall having to sign a permission slip so that my wife could have a credit card in her own name.

But they have achieved certain economic rights, and the respect they once showed men out of economic need has dried up. I do NOT advocate a return to this exploitation. Even though I am male, I am not about to defend the honor of men because of the lack of respect women show them. For since I am not an alpha, I have been subjected to their arrogant abuse and feel they have not earned respect from anyone just because they are bullying jerks.

But the disrespect I have received from women just because I am male weakens my support for rectifying their issues. I still want them to be able to support themselves and free themselves from having to prostitute themselves in trade for room and board, but I am not about to accept the misimpression that there are no good men and we owe women dates and marriage, not when we men can do nothing right in their view - especially not even dating them in the manner to which they feel entitled.

The respect necessary for women to be dated and married by men isn't there. Women tend to express attitudes and beliefs about men that cause respect to lessen, not grow. They aren't doing anything to earn the respect of men to receive these gifts. These are NOT obligations of due.

So, to overcome the resistance of men to their advances, women end up resorting to sexual enticement. Admittedly, that works very well. And, since such actions have worked well for decades, the knowledge of how to apply such enticement is passed from mother to daughter to give the daughter a means to make the mother a grandmother. This will continue until no man can be taken down in this manner.

Increasingly, there are signs that this time is coming - and women don't like it one bit. To do anything about this diminution in the imbalance of gender power favoring women would mean that women generally would have to become much more honest than they currently are in the conduct of intergender relations.

I expect to observe a bactrian transitioning through a needle eye long before that ever happens.