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In reply to the discussion: For those women who think objectifying women as sex objects is OK [View all]KitSileya
(4,035 posts)More to the point, I wish that if the pictures were there, they would be of the female form - and not the photoshopped unnatural "female" form. I wish my students weren't completely surrounded by the female form in its current typical portrayal - photoshopped women and female body parts in ads - the "beauty" of which they are told girls need to have to be beautiful or even normal. The thinness, the lack of any humanness such as scars, blemishes, even pores, the two roles most women in ads have to take (either alluring sexual object, or frazzled mom magically calmed by the product advertised) all of it is damaging to our young women and men. It has nothing to do with whether you find the female form beautiful, and everything with it being plastered everywhere and impossible to avoid.
But don't worry, the next time one of my female students come to me to talk about how she wants a boob job, I'll tell her that if she doesn't like it, she shouldn't look.