The men would hoot and holler and even grab at her as if her value was that of a mere object. ... Women were still fighting for the nineteenth amendment to pass (the right to vote and not to be discriminated based on sex), they wanted to be able to practice every right which a man would practice. ... Women had become fairly accustomed to the absence of sex discrimination, and equality was setting in by the 1970's. ... Indeed, women were not equal to men half a century ago in the work place or in society; however, they were still respected and looked at as human, not simply as mere obje...

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Paul Theroux, in his essay "Being a Man," tells us how disgusted he is with masculinity, or what he perceives to be masculinity. He complains that manliness is "by its very nature destructive-emotionally damaging and socially harmful." I have a hard time believing him. The concept of manliness I've ...

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Blacks were under estimated and were treated as if they were things and objects which whites could negotiate with and take advantage over them whenever and however they wanted. ... Genre, defines the sex of a person, but determines many other things. ...

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For example, women are often seen as objects of desire; they are valued for their attractiveness but with little else to offer. ... We are taught to behave differently than the opposite sex starting during the time we are children. ...

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By rejecting objects they are trying to connect even further to their male primal selves; to the man that existed before society put constraints on them. ... He uses her just for sex and completely dominates her; he does not treat her as a person only and object. ... Instead he ends up having to live with the sounds of them constantly having sex to remind him how weak and powerless he still is. ... He sees the door to Tyler's room slightly ajar and tries to peak in on Marla and Tyler having sex. ...

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Some of these commercials target certain types of people, most dominantly sex. ... Men's women commercials are commercials where women are used as an object of desire. ... As Craig's analysis of a men's women commercial pointed out, she is used as an object of desire. ...

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It is a way of thinking about culture as set of significant symbols "words, gestures, drawings, natural objects "that carries meaning(Robbins et al. 2014:25). ... With some example that presumably from his informants, like a marriageable man that is still shy with the opposite sex as a caged fighting cock. ...

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This is true in many cases with women who accept the male notion that bodies are sex objects. ... Yo was from another country and was taught that sex was sacred and she should not give into men whom are after it. ... Children do not realize that these stereotypical images are in their mind, but know when it is right for someone of their sex to do something. ...

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I strongly agree with her thoughts and ideas distinguishing sex-role identifications. ... Women are socially constructed to believe that they have to be beautiful to be successful and that women stand as sex objects. ...

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The forefather (scratch that, make it "foremother- even though this feminine term is not found in Webster's New World Dictionary) of the Women's Rights Movement, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, pointed out, "The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her- (Eisenberg 2). ... As Allende's Eva Luna summed it up, "Sex without love makes me melancholy- (Allende 248). ... As Anna Quindlen comments, "Boys could have it [sex]; girls couldn't. ...

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Individuality Vs. Society Individuality is not that easy to be accomplished since the guidelines for our behavior and the way we as human beings are supposed to act are already stated by society. The differences between men and women (in terms of social characteristics) are the product of soci...

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