Study: Proof That We Sexually Objectify Women

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3. Thanks, GC! That helps prove the obvious.

Anyone who doesn't believe that women are objectified in this culture probably suffers from very serious perception/cognition deficiencies. One of these deficiencies could be the result of the perceptually deficient individual being so thoroughly inculcated from birth by institutionalized sexism that s/he simply cannot grasp the obvious reality of widespread sexual objectification of women in American society.



It is likely that most of the individuals who cannot perceive/recognize the objectification of women have never experienced this type of objectification in any way, and possibly lack the empathic abilities to relate to the feelings and perceptions of women who express dismay over this objectification, and who pretty much universally know for a fact that we are objectified, and that it is not simply some manifestation of the non-reality based essential misogynist and/or sexist invented stereotype of silly, hysterical, feminist female.

Obviously, there is a high probability that the objectification of women, as an acceptable expression of an unjust social norm deeply ingrained into the collective consciousness of patriarchal cultures such as our culture here in the US, may be in great part due to the dogma and practice of the patriarchal predominant religions historically and presently adhered to by members of these cultures who sexually objectify women:

Quran Sura 2:223 "Your women are your fields, so go into your fields whichever way you like . . . ."

"But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God." (I Corinthians 11:3)

"For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man." (I Corinthians 11:8-9

"Let the women learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression." (I Timothy 2:11-14)

Quran Sura4:34 ". . . If you fear highhandedness from your wives, remind them [of the teaching of God], then ignore them when you go to bed, then hit them. If they obey you, you have no right to act against them. God is most high and great. "

Quran in Sura 65:1

"O Prophet, when you [and the believers] divorce women, divorce them for their prescribed waiting—period and count the waiting—period accurately . . . 4 And if you are in doubt about those of your women who have despaired of menstruation, (you should know that) their waiting period is three months, and the same applies to those who have not menstruated as yet. As for pregnant women, their period ends when they have delivered their burden."

And so on, and so forth, ad nauseum, in these, and other predominant patriarchal dogmas as well. Denying the existence of the objectification of women in American culture is almost as silly as denying that various historical patriarchal systems and processes have had major influence on existing patriarchal culture of the US, and denying that a somewhat diluted form of non-egalitarian patriarchy still dominates the reality and collective consciousness of this society as it exists in the present.

While it is true that women, through long, difficult struggle, have made great gains in the collective recognition that we are human beings equal to men...(hey, we are no longer considered the legal property of men, and we can even vote now! isn't that special? aren't we lucky? ...institutions such as patriarchy and resultant objectification of women do not magically vanish overnight, as dome of the deniers of patriarchy and objectification apparently would have us believe...if these individuals even recognize that, despite massive evidence and almost universal academic recognition, these essential noumena/phenomena ever existed in reality in the first place.

[font color="purple" size="size" face="face"]"Man enjoys the great advantage of having a god endorse the code he writes; and since man exercises a sovereign authority over women it is especially fortunate that this authority has been vested in him by the Supreme Being. For the Jews, Mohammedans and Christians among others, man is master by divine right; the fear of God will therefore repress any impulse towards revolt in the downtrodden female."
--Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex 1949[/font]

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Glinda the Good Witch makes the objectification of women
a non-reality in US society.[/font]