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Category Archives: Exploring Objectification
This series explores the concept of objectification in depth.
Girls are Flirty and Boys are Proud? Objectification, Anyone?
My middle school daughter was shopping today and she came home with these photos from an in-store advertising campaign. Notice the difference between the ads directed at girls versus those directed at boys. The ad for the girls’ clothes says, … Continue reading →
Posted in Exploring Objectification, For Teens and Tweens, Recognizing
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Tagged Adolescence, boys and media messages, child development, Children Youth and Family, gender focused products, gender stereotypes, media and children, media and gender, media messages and children, Objectification, parenting, sexualization of females in the media, women and power
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Objectification vs Mutuality: From Bristol Palin to Harry Potter
In my writing about sexualized media and its focus on representing females as objects rather than agents, I have often referred to the need for a more complex depiction of females. I’ve also discussed the need for a more authentic … Continue reading →
Posted in Exploring Objectification, For Teens and Tweens, Talking
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Tagged Adolescence, Bristol Palin, child development, Children Youth and Family, Harry Potter, identity, media and children, media messages and children, parenting, Sexuality, sexualization of females in the media, thin ideal, unhealthy models, women and power
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Objectification: Body Image and Young Girls
Body Image Issues: 6-Year-Old Girl Worries She Is Fat – ABC News. In the article linked above, a six-year-old girl talks about needing to lose weight and a group of young girls criticize other girls their age about weight issues. … Continue reading →
Posted in Acting, Cooperating, Exploring Objectification, Talking
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Tagged Body image, child development, Children Youth and Family, distortion of beauty, Health, media and children, Media literacy, media messages and children, parenting, Sexual objectification, thin ideal, Weight loss, women and power
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To Be or To Be Looked At: Beauty Redefined on Objectification
Today is the day to remember you are capable of much more than being looked at. And when you begin to realize that, you can start realizing the power of your abilities and the good you can do in a world so desperately in need of you. NOT a vision of you, but ALL of you. What will you find you are capable of?
-Lexie Kite Continue reading →
Exploring Objectification
In a Facebook conversation about my last post, Renee of Hardy Girls Healthy Women brought up the idea proposed by Dr. Sharon Lamb that enjoying being the object of someone’s attraction or desire is not always unhealthy. This is an … Continue reading →
