Are we only our bodies??

AS much as we try to avoid  advertisements we can't, they are EVERYWHERE. Can you think about how many advertisements you are expose to a day? They're everywhere telling us to be thinner, have healthier hair, cook more, clean more, smell nicer and it seems as though it will never end.

but c'mon, who doesn't like a good ole, funny, clever advertisement right? Here's just two of our favorites:

BUT then most times we have to sit through some HORRIBLE ones. One question though people,why do you need a woman in bathing suit acting all over sexual to advertise a BURGER or CAR OIL or a SOFT DRINK?? seriously??

Take a look at this video below:

 This advertisement is blatantly sexually objectifying women. Sexual objectification is the act of treating a person merely as an instrument of sexual pleasure, making them a "Sex object". It contributes to rape culture, and it encourages people to see women as sexually available inactive objects, and not as individuals with their own feelings and thoughts




I KNOW for most of you men, you may not see anything wrong with this  *rolls eyes*: BUT sexually objectifying images tells women that they are only wanted for the use of their body.  Can you imagine a generation where women ACCEPTED that they are only useful for their bodies? That's scary.

Many of us have at least one female on our Facebook, Instagram, etc that just take out pictures of their boobs, butt, or in their underwear, some men go wild for these things, but have you stopped to think where they got the  "this is normal" to do these things?  They promote this culture that treats them like sex objects. 

(pictures taken from Google)

As we always state, we're not saying that advertisements are totally responsible. Women obviously ought to have some level of understanding of what is acceptable and what is not. However, sometimes this behavior is acceptable to them because advertisements do have a great influence on the way sexual objectification is portrayed as  "normal".  

Quote from Irish Feminist’s Network (IFN): 


 Representative: “We’re surrounded by media images for such a large portion of our daily lives, it’s almost impossible to escape from it. We get the majority of our information today through media, be it music, tv, the internet, advertising or magazines, so it really is incredibly important for us as a society to think about the messages we receive from the media critically .On a personal level, I find the phrase ‘you can’t be what you can’t see’ to ring true for so many girls and women today. If you repeatedly see women presented as sexual objects and not as leaders in a variety of roles and careers, it can be difficult to aspire to leadership positions as a woman." 



Facebook page for those of you interested in supporting the movement against sexual objectification. 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Object-Women-Not-Sex-Objects/241459022548228