Am I the only women who doesn't mind when other women are "objectified"?

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I had found this before and had saved to post, so I don't recall if it was from Wikipedia, or what. Anyway there are some relatealbe points here:


Definition of Sexy

Seductive images of models in ads, music, and videos showing girls dancing in skirts the size of belts and even video game heroines flaunting skimpy outfits are considered a cultural norm in today’s twenty-first century lifestyle (Khidelkel, 2008, p. 153). According to a cosmogirl.com poll, 81 percent of their readers feel bombarded with sex and sexy images in the media, and 85 percent think there’s more sex in the media now than in their youth (Khidelkel, 2008, p. 153). A recent Newsweek poll found that 84 percent of American adults say sex plays a bigger role in popular culture than it did 20 or 30 years ago. Celebrities and models who set the unspoken standard for adolescents have promoted the need for girls to look sexy. In 2007, the American Psychological Association released a report concluding that girls exposed to sexualized images from a young age are more prone to three of the most common mental health problems for girls and women: depression, eating disorders, and low self-esteem (Khidelkel, 2008, p. 155).

Damages by a Sex-Obsessed Culture

Sexiness is not only defined by how a person looks but it has infiltrated many different other parts of everyday life. “Today, American girls are forced to navigate a minefield more challenging, difficult, and pressure-filled than ever before when it comes to one vital topic: sex” (Liebau, 2007, pg. 3). “Lyrics to popular music contain unspeakably coarse and often derogatory references to sex in general, and to women in particular—and young girls sing along without a second thought” (Liebau, 2007, p. 3). Pornography has become more socially accepted and often pops up, unbidden, on the Internet (Liebau, 2007, p. 4). Stores such as Victoria’s Secret and restaurants like Hooters capitalize on an implicit message that being sexy at all times is a female imperative (Liebau, 2007, p. 4). Over the last forty years the United Sates has indeed experienced an incremental but aggressive sexualizing of its culture—until today there exists a status quo in which almost everything seems focused on what’s going on below the waist (Liebau, 2007, p. 5). “Gossip sheets report that many of the celebrities idolized by adolescent girls are wearing clothes and engaging in behavior so vulgar that it once would have destroyed their careers” (Liebau, 2007, p. 3). Adolescent girls standing only at the threshold of adolescence are forced to absorb information, confront issues, and handle situations that, in past generations, would have presented themselves much later in their lives, if at all” (Liebau, 2007, p. 7).