Women Are Objectified by the Essay

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However, women are also objectified without any sort of sales involved, as well. The notion of perfection which is virtually unattainable and which most conceptions of female beauty in the United States revolves upon, and which is consistently seen in media outlets such as television and film, also serves to objectify women. In this respect, women receive messages from some of the most powerful media around that they should be tall, thin, have inordinately large breasts and other body parts -- the sum of which effectively "dehumanizes" them. This form of objectification is most dramatically demonstrated by America the Beautiful, in which Roberts talks to a group of plastic surgeons about the popularity of this cosmetic procedure which is used to reinforce a false beauty that is virtually impossible to have under completely natural circumstances.

Plastic surgery, or the self-mutilation of one's body, is just one of the many myriad negative consequences of such objectification for women.
In a psychological sense, women also incur low self-esteem and a devaluation of their inherent worth when they cannot live up to these unrealistic ideals, which Roberts portrays by showing the rejection of a 12-year-old girl who had aspirations to model. More dangerously still, perhaps, is the physical consequences that stem from the objectification of women in the mass media. Violence towards female is both discreetly and indiscreetly encouraged by advertising campaigns that promote men to be assertive and women to simultaneously be passive and to desire men who want to be assertive. Instances of rape, involving advertising and marketing campaigns for alcohol, are also some of the negative effects that stem from the objectification of women.

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