Women are taught to be passive and sex objects. ... We are always showing women as objects, having plastic surgery, getting breast implants we are teaching women that their real breasts are never ok. ... The body type of being extremely skinny and then having large breasts basically doesn't even really exist; it is an image the media has created for us to impossibly live up to. ... I hope that as time goes on more people will be aware of the problem we have in our mass media culture and eventually women won't be such targets as sex objects, or the weaker less important sex. ...

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The Portrayal of Females in Society: Sex Sells You have to wonder who exactly Pepsi is trying to sell to when they put Britney Spears in a half shirt with suspenders and low-slung, ripped jeans in a commercial with Bob Dole at the end staring lewdly at the television screen. ... But Pepsi is just one of many advertisers who think that sex, or women dancing around in slinky clothing, sells their product. ... So why do these advertisers use women and sex to sell their product? ... The ads might appeal to a specific social class or to a specific sex. ... Women, everyday, undergo harm...

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Sex is rampant in advertising and no other type of psychological imagery hits people closer to where they live. ... A nipple aren't even shown in advertisements actually relating to breasts but is it now officially OK to show bare breasts on the cover of a mainstream magazine? ... But sex does sell even that kind of sex. ... Until we acknowledge the connection between the comodification of the female body and sex-based violence against women and girls, it is irresponsible to keep pushing the line towards anything goes/anything shows. ...

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Teena Brandon was a young woman who used to bind her breast, cut her hair short, stuff a sock into her pants, passed as a man, renamed herself as Brandon Teena, and was later raped and murdered by her friends when her identity was discovered. The movie "Boys Don't Cry," narrates the true life story of Teena (AKA Brandon), which clearly shows that gender and sexual orientation are independent of biological sex. ... Wood wrote that "sex is a designation based on biology, while gender is socially and psychologically constructed" (19). ... Gender identity starts with the recognition and awar...

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Fake eyelashes, fake breasts, fake blondes, fake tan. ... Abortion, international policy, marijuana, underage drinking, peer pressure, community involvement, same sex marriage and adoption are topics frequently raised by the panel. ... Since the earliest reformers in the 1800s, and especially the female reformists in the 1960s, women have claimed equality among the sexes. ... Are fake eyelashes, silicone breasts, and bleach blonde hair indicants of true natural beauty? ... How many have small breasts? ...

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In the absence of other traits, a woman wearing a bathing suit might not be coded as a sex object while a fully clothed woman in a suggestive pose could be considered a sex object.... Or maybe even the fact that women are shunned for breast feeding in public. ... Women's upper body is of the same anatomy as that of men yet we are censored for having more fatty tissue on our breast. ... Because they are doing this in public and are showing their breasts it is seen as wrong yet when there are pictures of female breast (that do not show the nipple) in magazines it is socially acceptable. I p...

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The focus shifted to a feminine figure with large breasts. The famous Barbie doll was introduces in 1959 with her long legs, big breasts, no hips and tiny waist. ... Finally, the fourth stereotype was that men regarded women as sex objects. ... In the 1920's it was the flapper girl, with a boyish body and bound breasts. In the 1950's Marilyn Monroe was a sex goddess. ...

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Although she has baby blue eyes, a small nose, and large breasts, she is not feminine. ... When he rips open her shirt to expose her large breasts, she has him lobotomized. ... Through sex with Candy, Billy briefly regains his confidence. ...

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From the picture of Sandra Bullock to the article titles on the cover of Marie Claire Magazine, I could see how beauty was not on the inside, but solely on a need for recognition from the opposite sex. ... She is standing upright, pushing out her chest and pulling her arms and shoulders back to increase the size of her breasts making her breasts the main emphasis of the picture. ... While another title read, "87 Sex Secrets You NEED to Know". ... The sex article goes much further than appearance, by going into a relational sense trying to please men. ... There was one article that did not...

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Only a small portion of her breasts are exposed, the rest covered by a small strip, leaving the observer to ponder what's underneath. ... Bordo also effectively makes the point that many ads mix sex with their sales. In order to increase sales, advertisers will add hints of sex appeal in order to entice the readers. ... Whether it be through the use of television, in magazines, or in print, sex sells. ... The sex is what is driving this product, through the beauty of the woman on the advertisement. ...

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman, (Women and Economics) wrote "We are the only animal species in which the female depends on the male for food, the only animal species in which the sex-relation is also an economic relation. With us an entire sex lives in a relation of economic dependence upon the other sex, and the economic relation is combined with the sex relation. The economic status of the human female is relative to the sex relation." ... She was a brave and strong minded person; she was diagnosed with breast cancer and I believe that her suicide was a form of protesting society and letting ever...

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If looked at closely the woman in the ad has breast augmentation which is not something that can be produced by eating protein bars. ... For a woman, that means they are frequently being sold on the ideologies of beauty, and sex. ...

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(Parker I 1) She becomes accustomed to trading sex for security, a characteristic exchange it appears to her, within her society. ... In spite of the dullness and vulgarity of Hazel's situation, Dorothy Parker breathes enough life to separate her from the blur of women in the story who are "stout, broad of shoulder and abundantly breasted, with faces thickly clothed in soft, high-colored flesh." ...

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Nadel (1952) notes that if there is a case of witchcraft where there is a death or something unimaginable, it is said, "a few evil individuals among the men (whom no one can name) have betrayed their own sex and become the helpers of a woman witch [and] men are never blamed or accused of witchcraft- (p.19). ... (p.21) In their need for control and the frustrations of being considered the lower of the two sexes, the Nupe man can only find superiority on the "fantasy-realm- where "the main collective weapon against witchcraft lies in the activities of a male secret society which, by thr...

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The media itself is a powerful and pervasive mode of communication and in today's society it not only shapes people's perception of gender but also reinforces the gender sex roles of society. ... One must firmly agree that women are not only under represented in the media but the media reinforces prejudiced sex roles. ... It is also interesting to note that these women always have the perfect or "ultimate" bodies; they are well toned, and have a small waist with large spherically rounded breasts. ... Since majority of the media representations of women are sex based, men will continu...

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John Steinbeck's short story, "The Chrysanthemums," centers around a woman named Elisa, an avid gardner who is strong, "blocked and heavy" (Steinbeck). When the story begins, Elisa is working in her garden when her husband approaches her and and implies that she has obviously has a gift for planting...

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The nurse attempts to hide her sexuality, and the schizophrenic Chief Bromden, the narrator of the novel, first brings the reader's attention to this denial in saying, "A mistake was made somehow in manufacturing, putting those big, womanly breasts on what otherwise would have been a perfect work, and you can see how bitter she is about it." ... Bibbit's absolute power over Billy is shown when Nurse Ratched, having caught Billy having sex with a prostitute, threatens to tell his mother. ...

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Some would say that a more masculine look became popular, including flattened breasts, hips, and bobbed hair. ... Other women devoted energy to secure passage of the equal rights amendment to the constitution because they thought it would ban discrimination based on sex. ...

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She is the ultimate sex symbol of America. ... When she was only five years old the mother she loved died of breast cancer. ... Sex is her whole persona and it sells her records. ... Madonna is not your average sex symbol. ... Her daring exploitation of sex from a feminine point of view was definitely a breakthrough in 1980"""'s American society. ...

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Sociologically, gender roles describe the behaviors and responsibilities prescribed for each sex by a given society. ... Gender must not be mistaken with sex. ... What is really discovered about each of us at that point is not our gender, but simply our sex. ... In this way, gender is intimately connected to social expectations, rather than to sex: we allow the knowledge of the sex of a child to inform us which set of gender characteristics we are supposed to encourage in that child. ... Because it is generally accepted that there are only two sexes, society has created a two-gender model:...

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Traditionally, in a Victorian society, the man is the one that is supposed to possess the more dominating role during sex. ... Her lust for both blood and sex are untamable and insatiable. ... "With a careless motion, she flung to the ground the child that up to now she had clutched strenuously to her breast, growling over it as a dog growls over a bone. ...

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Many people wont admit it, but sex ponders through the channels of our minds on a daily basis. ... The story clearly shows how desperate she truly is when she is sexually aroused by the tinker's interest in the Chrysanthemums she works on by stating that her voice grew husky afterwards her breast swelling passionately (Sullivan).This clearly shows the severity of the issue as Elisa has to resort to the tinker who she just meets as opposed to her husband, to get some sense of excitement towards her sexual activity. ... Not only does he neglect her as his wife, but he forgets to provide he...

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Looking at a few cologne and perfume adds for Gucci, Ralph Lauren, and Armani, I came to the realization that men and women are represented in the ads as sex symbols. ... For the longest time, only women have been seen as sex objects in society, but it wasn't until recently that men were seen in the same way. ... Bordo touches on the subject that sex sells. ... To expand on the importance of the gaze, Bordo expresses that women have learned to anticipate or even play into the sexualizing gaze by trying to become whatever will please the opposite sex. ... The tight buns, the perfect skin, ...

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It's a hot, sunny day and two beautiful women with humongous breasts, slim waists and long luscious legs, rip each other's clothes off while splashing around in a shallow pool of water. ... Sex appeal is one of the most effective forms of advertising in modern popular culture. ... Of the five magazines, I choose twenty-five different advertisements to examine: ten of women only, ten of men only and five that were mixed sexes. ... There are many studies confirming the correlation between sexually explicit material and certain types of sex crimes. ...

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Legal and economic rights were afforded to both sexes. ... Do not have sex with her... Sexual intercourse was a very important part of this cycle and the Egyptians were not modest about sex. ... If a woman wasn't sure, she could go to the doctor who would perform a detailed examination of her breasts, eyes and skin. ...

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