Sexual Objectification Of Women
Sexual Objectification of Women means, to treat women like an object created for the eye as a sexual instrument; as well as, treating a woman without acknowledgement to her own person with a voice within. This has become a large issue within our population, and it has been ignored. The objectification of women is everywhere in our society. Females can be just as guilty about the sexual objectification of themselves as males are. One must understand the entirety of the sexual objectification of women to understand why this issue has become an issue and everyday norm in our society.
The sexual objectification of women can be found legally within our society; it can also be found illegally. A few of the ways that the objectification can be found …show more content…
From the age of six females are taught a dress code to hide their bodies, so they do not distract the learning of males. In school females are told, when boys pull their hair or poke them with a pencil that it simply means that the boy likes her, to ignore the male's behavior. Young females are taught to be sexually objectified before. They even know what sex is. Females in school, fight and tease one-other then, Justify it by attractiveness. Furthermore, the popular girls are always the most attractive, teaching females to obsess over their bodies. It also teaches females to judge one another and continues into the adult life. The way a female is dressed, justifies males to look and opportunities for females to verbally sexually harass one-another due to attire. This category represents being seen as an object and lack of individually due to other's sexual urge. In women’s news, Ruthann Robson is time devoted professor at CUNY school of Law. Robson is the author of, "Dressing Constitutionally: Hierarchy, Sexuality and Democracy," published in 2013. According to Robson, “all males are heterosexual and males are given permission to be aggressive, by the way female's dress” (Robson). Robson is also Stating, “it is the female's responsibility to control the opposite sex though limiting their promiscuous attire” (Robson). Therefore, females are being told at a young age that the “dress code" is meant to prevent boys’ minds from wandering and thinking sexual of females visually. It gives males the justification for rape, “her clothes provoked me." Schools are unintentionally teaching this. However, they are taking the responsibility off of the boys and putting it on the female student’s shoulders. Strict dress codes for females allow females to be blamed for the harassment for violating the dress
The sexual objectification of women can be found legally within our society; it can also be found illegally. A few of the ways that the objectification can be found …show more content…
From the age of six females are taught a dress code to hide their bodies, so they do not distract the learning of males. In school females are told, when boys pull their hair or poke them with a pencil that it simply means that the boy likes her, to ignore the male's behavior. Young females are taught to be sexually objectified before. They even know what sex is. Females in school, fight and tease one-other then, Justify it by attractiveness. Furthermore, the popular girls are always the most attractive, teaching females to obsess over their bodies. It also teaches females to judge one another and continues into the adult life. The way a female is dressed, justifies males to look and opportunities for females to verbally sexually harass one-another due to attire. This category represents being seen as an object and lack of individually due to other's sexual urge. In women’s news, Ruthann Robson is time devoted professor at CUNY school of Law. Robson is the author of, "Dressing Constitutionally: Hierarchy, Sexuality and Democracy," published in 2013. According to Robson, “all males are heterosexual and males are given permission to be aggressive, by the way female's dress” (Robson). Robson is also Stating, “it is the female's responsibility to control the opposite sex though limiting their promiscuous attire” (Robson). Therefore, females are being told at a young age that the “dress code" is meant to prevent boys’ minds from wandering and thinking sexual of females visually. It gives males the justification for rape, “her clothes provoked me." Schools are unintentionally teaching this. However, they are taking the responsibility off of the boys and putting it on the female student’s shoulders. Strict dress codes for females allow females to be blamed for the harassment for violating the dress