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Is it any wonder women are sexually objectified when so many celebrities volunteer to be?

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Notsosure1 · 12/06/2025 19:36

I’ve posted about this topic before , but after seeing two pop up shortly after scrolling, I am staggered by the number of articles that pop up on yahoo news that have headlines ‘celebrating’ (objectifying) female celebrities, young and old - here’s the first two of many -

‘Sabrina Carpenter is completely naked in new magazine cover, posing in nothing but thigh high socks’ (Cosmopolitan)

‘Stacey Solomon is the ultimate Bond girl in slinky swimsuit as she holidays without Joe Swash’
(Hello)

We’re trying to teach the younger generation of girls not to accept being viewed simply as sexual objects but there’s an abundance of mainstream female celebrities doing just that and are being cheered on for doing it. Talk about mixed messages. Yeah to body confidence and positivity, of course you can be viewed as sexy as well as intelligent, kind, independent etc. but I can’t believe there are still so many of these out there with such sleazy titles. There are a few focussing on men (I presume) but way down in number by comparison.

Am I over-reacting?

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Portakalkedi · 15/06/2025 20:57

I often think this when I see pics of some red carpet event etc, many of the women are semi naked and I think just put it away! You've already got your fame and money, just dress appropriately. I guess they are all vying for the press attention but yes I do judge them. Far better to be classy and understated than look like a streetwalker.

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Notsosure1 · 16/06/2025 02:26

Notsosure1 · 14/06/2025 23:06

Sex sells sadly 🤮

Sad but true.

Women have been used to sell records of men (think background party girls in music videos, objects of desire or heartbreak, backing singers) as well as films and tv shows - there was a YouTube video someone had made pointing out all the sexual non-speaking parts of young female actors In Game of Thrones and said they were essentially ‘props’. You can’t really argue against that.

Women have been cast in these roles since the media began and we are still being represented in these passive, objectifying ways as it’s become a tradition and what ppl expect. It ‘works’, ppl accept this, why change it?

Producers and executives are very aware that young men have always been the primary audience in terms of ticket sales in cinemas - certainly throughout its history. So a lot of chauvinistic fantasy was created to cater for this market and entice them to spend their money and fill the seats - hence the passive, non-threatening, attractive female inclusion. The 80s went through a long spell of nerd fantasy where they spun the yarn of unattractive but ‘decent’ adolescents scoring dates and sexual encounters, if not relationships, with sexually attractive peers or older women. They predictably went down a storm. However, this crept on throughout the decades where they presented normal Joe Bloggses winning the girl against the odds and after competing successfully with conventionally more attractive and richer alpha males. Unfortunately, this has led to a generation(s) of dissatisfied males who feel they are owed their own happy, Hollywood ending, and when they don’t get it they turn nasty. This hatred and entitlement isn’t aimed where it belongs, the other men who took advantage of their dreams and yearnings and made a hefty fortune out of them, but irrationally, at the women they feel they are owed. Hence the women-hating incels culture that is now rife. Men hate women for rejecting them or for imagining they will reject them. They’re too thick and twisted to realise that it’s other men who they should be angry with who sold them the lie. Meanwhile hoping women are getting their lit off in film and tv while their male counterparts sit back fully-clothed, or discretely hidden (yes I’m looking at you Oppenheimer!!!) and enjoy the view and inevitable revenue these sleaze magnets attract.

We need to break the fucking mould and the sooner the better!!!

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Sorry for the typos in my posts - I try to check them but they don’t always leap out at me -

Meanwhile hoping women are getting their lit off in film and tv while their male counterparts sit back fully-clothed, or discretely hidden…

Should have been young women are getting their kit off in film and tv…

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