Objectification Of Women Analysis

“Tell us what you don’t like about yourself,” Dr. Troy and Dr. McNamara ask patients at the beginning of each plastic surgery consultation on the Emmy Award winning series Nip/Tuck. The patients, predominately Caucasian women or aspiring models and actresses, then give a detailed list of what they dislike about their bodies and the procedures they would like to have done. Dr. Troy will even go as far as to peruse Miami’s most popular bars and nightclubs for beautiful, insecure women in the entertainment industry. After sleeping with them sleep, he points out flaws on their body that he could fix in their most vulnerable moments after consummation. Fox channel’s Nip/Tuck is just one example of how women are frequently objectified or underrepresented
Objectification can be defined as “the reduction to appearance: the treatment of a person primarily in terms of how they look, or how they appear to the senses” (D’Enbeau 9). In “Caregiving and Female Embodiment: Scrutinizing (Professional) Female Bodies in Media, Academe, and the Neighborhood Bar,” Suzy D’Enbeau and Patrice M. Buzzanell discuss how the media pressures women to be thin and makes it difficult for women to embrace the bodily changes that occur in pregnancy and throughout womanhood (D’Enbeau 10). The paparazzi relentlessly hound the post-baby bodies of celebrities like Tori Spelling, Brittany Spear's little sister Jamie Lynn, Ashlee Simpson, and Bristol Palin. Furthermore, stories still appear in the Harvard Business Review about whether a woman can be a “topflight executive and a good mother” with all the accompanying mental and physical demands of each,” the authors say (D’Enbeau 13). The media makes it seem that appearances determine whether or not a woman is capable of succeeding in the occupation of her choice. The voluptuous body of a new mother is supposedly not suitable for the business world and the body of a career-woman is not suitable for parenting (D’Enbeau