Sexual Objectification Essay

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Despite it's negative consequences such as making victims feel degraded and fear for their safety, cat-calling and street harassment are situations that have been normalized in society and accepted when it should be something people can be punished for by receiving fines or tickets. It is arguable that cat-calling and street sexual harassment are recognized as something that is a problem today, but with very little research actually examining how sexual harassment and other similar forms of sexism are negatively effecting women, and very little to almost nothing done to stop the system of sexual objectification, do people really consider it that much of an issue? Street harassment is described as a form of sexual harassment such as unwarranted …show more content…

It the article, Sanctioning Resistance to Sexual Objectification: an Integrative System Justification Perspective, it argues that putting a stop to supporting the system of sexual objectification is an essential way to change it. If that's not done, if people don't make a conscious effort to rebel against and disagree with the patriarchal social systems that this issue originated from, it'll never be taken as an issue that's essential and important enough to have the need to be changed (Calogero & Tylka, 2014). To go further into the system. An example of how sexual objectification is how women and girls are represented in the media as sexual objects. Because of this, the cultural landscape has rendered the perception of women's sexual objectification as both inevitable and natural. It's considered to be a normal part of life and something that just happens, when it should be the opposite. Possibly the most important, also frightening, example of the system of sexual objectification is that women and girls become complicit in the system. From birth, girls are taught that their value is dependent on whether or not they are found appealing to men. Women are trained to believe that if someone doesn't make sexually explicit comments while they're simply walking down the street or any other mundane task that does not provoke such things, there must be something wrong with them instead of the other way

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