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Esther Jacqueline Alabi is a writer, blogger and advocate. Her writing is majorly influenced by her passion for feminism and gender equality.
For leisure, Jacqueline writes on her blog thechiefdom.blogspot.com and watches romcoms.
Sexual objectification refers to the act of treating someone solely on how you sexually perceive them as only an object of sexual pleasure. When men sexually objectify women, it means that these women are only good for sex, and have their worth attached to how “sexy” their body parts seem. This is very harmful, as it reinforces that women should be viewed and treated based on “how great her boobs look”, etc instead of viewing her as a whole, fully human.
Men objectify women for several reasons. However, one of the obvious reasons is to avoid intimacy and vulnerability. Thanks to toxic masculinity, a lot of men are still struggling to articulate their feelings and emotions, and cannot properly communicate or express themselves. Coupled with that, their fear of vulnerability pulls them away from embracing feelings, hence they go for the easier, “harmful” route of objectifying women.
Another reason is to bond with other men. As funny as it sounds, men claim that objectifying women is a source of “content” for bonding with the boys. This makes me wonder why and how an entire group of men would not have noteworthy events to discuss in their lives other than women’s bodies. That’s pathetic. Society has encouraged this narrative that women exist solely for a man’s pleasure for far too long and this has also contributed to the objectification of women by men.
A woman is not a piece of furniture, no matter how expensive. It is harmful to liken a woman to some type of equipment that can be “used and dumped”. It’s why I think the term “trophy wife” is also quite problematic. Men often describe their ex romantic partners saying “I used her and dumped her ” as an expression, reinforcing that women can be picked up at will, used at will, and dumped at will, which is not only disrespectful but also false.
Some men have a terrible habit of making suggestive comments in the guise of “compliments” to random women, not caring how offensive or inappropriate the comment may be. Making comments like “nice boobs” to a random woman is not only inappropriate but also counts as sexual harassment.
Making comments about a random woman’s dressing or suggesting that her outfit means she’s “asking for it” is disrespectful. Making inappropriate comments about a women’s dress, or outfit suggestively, is rude and also counts as sexual harassment.
The media has done a lot of harm to women in how it has portrayed women as sex symbols for decades now. However, making a conscious effort to stop associating a woman’s worth to her body parts and stop objectifying women is one of the ways we can also curb sexual abuse, rape, and harassment towards women.
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Researchers study sexual objectification in brain processes (summary)
A university in Italy conducted a research study on sexual objectification in brain processes. This study goes on to explain how the human brain functions when it comes to differentiating between humans and objects especially how both men and women view each other based on how they present themselves.
Furthermore, it explains why these brain activities are the cause for certain socio-muddles such as sexual abuse and violence. As part of my self-praised blog for men who wish to educate themselves. This is a summary provided with my personal experience on the behaviors my brain plays out in terms of objectifying women who appear to dress less.
First and foremost, I would like to start off by apologizing to all the women out there reading this and are finding themselves getting offended by what I am saying. Again, this is not a study I conducted, neither do I know the group of men who volunteered. I am simply sharing based on what I believe is relevant information on a topic that is much needed in today’s society.
The moral standard for women in the world of modesty has declined, and we have seen this throughout the years and understood that people simply want to dress less. Some may argue that men can control how they should behave around women who are dressed inappropriately. I do think men want to behave properly around all women. I can’t speak for the majority who feel the need to cat-call women or objectify them in any way, because sometimes it can just be a lack of awareness of such behaviors, due to the way the women themselves are choosing to represent their image around men. This could be seen through what may be labeled as inappropriate dressing or clothing that is deemed provocative to the eye.
The most basic definition of sexual objectification, a risk that mostly targets women , is the reduction of a person’s body or body parts to objects, a view that represents a powerful and potentially damaging way of seeing and treating women. The theme has been analyzed experimentally in a study conducted at the University of Trento, Italy. The results are published today in Scientific Reports , and represent an important contribution to the literature on sexual objectification.
The research team of the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science and the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CiMEC) analyzed what happens in the human brain when an object appears in two different contexts: among a group of women or a group of men. The brain activity , measured with an electroencephalogram (EEG), shows that an object is noticed less when it appears among a group of scarcely dressed women.
Studies conducted in recent decades on the impact of sexual objectification have revealed that growing up in a society in which women are mainly judged on their looks makes women doubt their physical appearance.
A woman in bikini or underwear is perceived more similarly to an object than a man is, in the brains of both male and female participants.
The perception of women, when objectified, changes in essence beyond the metaphor, becoming more similar to a real object.
in the experiments, both male and female participants were exposed to images of scarcely or fully dressed male and female models, together with doll-like avatars that were created on the basis of the same models. Brain activity was measured with an electroencephalogram (EEG).
On a scale from fully human to object, the brains of both men and women tend to perceive a lower degree of humanity or a stronger resemblance with an object in women rather than in men when they are dressed in a swimsuit or underwear.
The implications of the result that the human brain associates “women” and “objects” are numerous. First of all, such perceptions might trigger treatments that are typically observed in our interactions with objects (like ownership and violation) and result in gender violence.
Secondly, the recurrent sexualization of women in the media and in video games might have stronger effects in real life given that female doll-like avatars are less clearly differentiated from real women.
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We condemn such talk. When a boy refers to a girl as ‘it’ rather than ‘she’, we tell him how disrespectful he’s being. When boys refer to girls, not in terms of their personalities, but in terms of their bodies, especially their sexual bodies, we say how wrong that is. How wrong, how disrespectful, how rude. The boys walk off, bristling with hostility.
The fact is that many boys don’t just objectify girls and women: they objectify everything. And they do it because they can’t bear to live with their subjective experience. It’s as if the possibility of having an internal life of their own, full of feelings and fears and doubts and private thoughts, is too much to bear. So all that internal, scary stuff gets projected out, re-created as something tangible, an object to be dismissed rather than a feeling to be experienced. This happens most obviously in bullying where one person’s anxiety about being small or weak, for example, is attributed to another person and attacked. He’s small and weak – not me!
Lenny’s life has certainly been tough. He’s experienced more than his fair share of shame and hurt. Attachments have been ripped apart. Promises have been made and repeatedly broken. He can’t bear the feelings he’s left with, so acts them out at other people’s expense. As a result, he’s forever in trouble with school and with the police.
Lenny can’t talk about any of this. Whenever I ask about something personal, whenever I ask how he’s feeling, he can’t say. He looks away, ashamed and angry, frustrated, not knowing where to begin. When we talk about his favourite football team, however, he comes alive. He knows everything about the players. He also knows all about the opponents, tactics, scores and scorers. He describes his team’s ups and downs, hopes and fears, the good and bad players and their performances. We speculate a lot about what the manager (the parent-figure) might be feeling, thinking, planning. Lenny’s team becomes an objectification of everything that he himself would be feeling and thinking if he ever allowed himself to feel and think anything. We can talk about football, but when I ask how things have been at home, he can’t speak.
Boys (and men) objectify girls (and women) because they can’t bear to feel their own fear , their own longing for intimacy , their own vulnerability and need for tenderness. They can relate to and control an object in ways they can’t relate to or control a feeling or a fear.
Of course we disapprove of their behaviour. We disapprove of the offensive language, the sexualisation of relationships and the treatment of girls as commodities. But we don’t always stop to think about where the behaviour is coming from. Why do boys behave in this way?
They do it because it’s the only thing they know to do when no one has ever supported them in experiencing themselves subjectively. How often do we ask small boys what they’re feeling? Rather, we ask them what they’ve been doing. How often do we ask them about their fears and sadnesses and longings? Instead, we praise their bravery, their energy, their physicality. So of course boys end up objectifying relationships and people when they themselves have been objectified from an early age.
Nick Luxmoore is a counselor at King Alfred's College, in the U.K.
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