Objectification

Objectification is one of main topic to be discussed in the current scenario. Here i have discussed various impacts of objectification and ways to combat. Women in general is discussed in dept.

1. What are the main female characteristics??

2. What is an Object? What is Thought or feeling? What is Sexual?

3. Object a material thing that can be seen and touched a person or thing to which a specified action or feeling is directed Thought/Feeling an idea or opinion produced by thinking, or occurring suddenly in the mind an emotional state or reaction Sexual relating to the instincts physiological processes, and activities connected with physical attraction or intimate physical contact between individuals

4. How are we portrayed?

5. What are the problems we face as a women???

6. Can any one say that you haven’t been harassed?

7. Obviously!!! YES

8. So here comes our topic!!

9. Meaning and concept of body objectification Combating female body objectification By SHAMBAVI YOGANANDHAN B.TECH, B.Ed

10. Activity 1 Take out your mobiles Type as “Objectification” in your browser What is the result?? How are women portrayed? How are men portrayed? Where do we find ourselves?

11. What is Objectification? “objectification is making into an object one who is not an object but a person. this is done by conferring the properties of an object onto a person. making someone into something . ” – Sam Hawkins, University of Illinois at Chicago

12. Objectification Seeing or treating a person, usually a woman, as an object, devoid of their feelings Targeted at women and reduces them to objects of sexual pleasure and gratification Focus: Sexual objectification Dehumanization

13. Women as object

14. Men as object

15. Sexual Objectification Treating a person as an Instrument of sexual pleasure Commodity or an object without regard to their personality or dignity Examined at Level of society Behavior of individuals Feminist - deplorable and important role in gender inequality

16. Sexual objectification - Common situations

17. Gazing or leering at women’s bodies Sexual comments about women’s bodies Whistling or honking the car horn at female passerby Taking photographs of women bodies and body parts with cell phone Exposed to sexualized media imagery or pornography Sexual harassment Sexual violence Rapes

18. How are women exposed?

19. Two arena Actual interpersonal encounters Media encounters Actual interpersonal encounters Interactions with familiar ones (family, friends, colleagues, employers and acquaintances) Hearing sexually degrading jokes about women Being sexually harassed Being called sexual names Being victim of unwanted sexual advances

20. Media encounters Prime-time television programs Sports programs Television commercials Cartoons and animation Internet Music videos and music lyrics Video games News paper and magazines Cell phone applications Billboards

21. Advertisements The "Ideal" Woman in Advertising - Advertising, marketing, and the fashion industry have created a new type of woman that does not exist in the real world. You know here very well, but let's look at her main features:

22. Her features This woman has no wrinkles, blemishes or scars; her skin is perfect. She has impossibly long, smooth, and shapely legs. Her waist so small it would make a Barbie doll jealous. She has a head of silky, radiant hair Her eyes are dazzlingly bright Her teeth are beyond white. They are straight, perfect, and almost unreal

23. Self Objectification

24. Women start to internalize the message that they are not individual human beings , but objects of beauty, pleasure, and play for men, and they start to look at themselves and their bodies as such Objectification ↔ self-objectification Thinking that they should look and act like the women in the media are portrayed

25. Recent study Girls – decrease in body objectification as they matured over the course of adolescence Feel pressured to self-objectify as they enter adolescence and resist this tendency as they develop

26. Combating female body objectification

27. What is combating? Take action to reduce or prevent (something bad or undesirable) What measures would you all state to reduce female body objectification?

28. Talking with the child Focus on internal values rather than external appearance

29. Monitoring the child’s media and product use

30. Building a community Community of support, that promotes other characteristics as valuable

31. Showing a child a variety of healthy body types Thinness Healthy Show children what real health looks like

32. Monitoring the comments that you make about your own and other bodies Children model the behaviors and statements they see and hear from their parents

33. Harassment!!!!! Why do you think harassment happens?? Baby thrown to death in rape case to shock India Girl, 7, Raped, Choked By Neighbor In Chennai 3-Year-Old Found Dead Near Chennai, Mouth Stuffed With Cloth Nirbhaya - Delhi Gang rape and murder case

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