Yet, these giant corporations still bring women down to being seen as nothing more than objects to be objectified. This is another blemish on society because despite the obstacles woman have overcome for years to be seen as more than the weaker sex, mass media still portrays woman as objects. ... " Woman are more than objects. ... Carl's Jr. another huge corporation chooses to show women wearing next to nothing, devouring a burger and purely selling this food with pure sex appeal. ... Yes, woman want to be admired, but they also want to be seen as more than just an object. ...

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For example, soaps tend to show strong, independent women, however they still show them as young, attractive and sex objects that at times can be weak, unreliable and dishonest. ... For example showing stereotypical gender roles of femininity, woman as sexual objects, incompetent in the political and economic spheres and decorative elements when it comes to advertisements. ... For example, women are shown as sex objects or homemakers and men are shown in occupational work most of the time, having more power than women. ... I think over the years the roles have changed a little in whic...

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Today, advertisers practice a new method that is mostly focused on sex and the typical stereotypes of women as objects. ... It can be roughly defined as the seeing and/or treating a person, usually a woman, as an object.... This proves how women are being treated as objects in our society today, and sexual harassment is common because women are not valued as human beings. ... They are expected to fill in gender roles such as cleaning the house, doing laundry, cooking, baby sitting or taking care of the family, and/or acting as a sex machine. ...

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The young worker imagines how they snuggle together at night and "he [can] feel the bond between the woman and himself" (542) that exists only in his objectified version of her as a sex object not a real person. ... Lessing's message is that Tom only has positive feelings towards the woman on his own terms as he objectifies her in his estimation of her as a sex object satisfying his fantasy. ... In the story, women are objectified as one would think of weather, as an object and not a person, and the men treat the woman with equal contempt each in his own way. ... Consequently, h...

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He states they are weak, lazy, and stupid and only desire sex for- shadowing how he will use them as his pawns. ... To show the theme of pride, reputation, to explain the men's behavior, and most importantly to be used as objects by Iago's devices. Iago said women are as objects and he uses them as objects. ... Women are the ordered objects of Iago's plans that he uses by changing in the men's eyes to achieve his plans....

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Simone De Beauvoir's work relates to how women are seen as sex objects to the male gender. She believes that a woman's condition hasn't changed as sex objects, ever since the ancient Greek times (De Beauvoir 1952,343). She writes:"The mere presence of her flesh swells and erects the male sex- (De Beauvoir 1952, 345)."Because she is reduced to servicing men through her sex for either pleasure or procreation women is exploited" (De Beauvoir 1952,342 ). ... She realizes that she has fit into a stereotype of what society wants a woman to be; passive towards the greater sex; men. ...

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AXE's marketing campaign involves commercials that have a repetitive theme involving an attractive woman that is dirty minded or being perpetuated as promiscuous sexual objects for heterosexual men. ... Sex sells in this society. ... The commercial is implementing the role of women as housewives as well as being sex objects because they are shown cleaning the balls in which it is making reference to the male's genitals. ... The commercial is implementing the role of women as housewives as well as being sex objects because they are shown cleaning the sports balls. ...

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A lot of individuals are familiar with motor vehicle ads that tend to depict women as sex objects or subjects to men. ... A review of the position of women of the modern society and of the past will reveal that women have been the central Object of exploitation and distortions in society through ages. (Lal, The Crisis in human values) The ad assumes that by using the humor they can connect better with a wider audience yet they have degraded the woman's value, making them seen as easygoing objects rather than getting them more attention which is sexism. ...

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Since the 1940's, movies have predominately portrayed women as sex symbols. ... The first stereotype is a beautiful sex goddess. ... In the 1950's women are either sex goddess or homemakers, but they are both looking for husbands. ... She is conservative and elegant, definitely not a sex symbol. ... In the 1940's women's characters were stereotyped as sex objects. ...

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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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One study, given by Beverly Fagot, determined that 18-month-old children did not differ on many behavioral measures where sex differences are often taken for granted. This includes large motor activity (jumping, climbing, running), play with sex-typed toys (trucks for boys, dolls for girls), aggression, and verbal skills. ... Fagot figured out that metaphors of gender are enough to override the actual nature of objects. ...

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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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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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Men are said to show strength and adhere to the Awlad" Ali honour code by abstaining from showing sexual interest in a member of the opposite sex. ... So while men are allowed to express interest, through appropriate channels, women - even after marriage - are prohibited from showing any sign of interest in the opposite sex and are prohibited from acknowledging their own sexuality in any way that would draw attention to themselves. ... If a woman bleeds (which is the case in all three instances), they are not permitted to pray or make contact with any holy objects. ...

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Nightingale is set in Feudal Japan at the time being a patriarchal society where the power, rights and representation of both sexes was uniquely different. ... Kaede is in this case seen as an object of desire, Iida did not feel he needed to ask for permission as he is the male and naturally women are expected to accommodate for men. ...

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