I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification…I think that word exists only with women because there are societal pressures… — Joe Manganiello Copy Share Image
“Bob grinned. 'Wear that white swimsuit you bought last week, OK?' he said. 'I want all the other guys to wish you… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
Playboy has a long history of high-quality interviews along with the objectification of women, and so I think she does have a… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes that inequality… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Calling something exotic emphasizes its distance from the reader. We don't refer to things as exotic if we think of them as… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Evil is nothing but a word, an objectification where no objectification is necessary. Cast aside this notion of some external agency as… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The Conversation about women’s bodies exists largely outside of us, while it is also directed at (and marketed to) us, and used… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
“She may resent Playboy because she resents feeling ugly in sex--or, if "beautiful," her body defined and diminished by pornography. It inhibits… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Within neo-colonial white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, the black male body continues to be perceived as an embodiment of bestial, violent, penis-as-weapon hypermasculine… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“Women incorporate the values of the male sexual objectifiers within themselves. Catharine MacKinnon calls this being "thingified" in the head (MacKinnon, 1989).… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
“The beauty myth sets it up this way: A high rating as an art object is the most valuable tribute a woman… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We don’t heal through objectification. We heal through understanding.” — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
“I would let myself be taken until I was nothing more than his creation, a poetic body, the divine alternative to womankind.” — Laura Elizabeth Woollett Copy Share Image
Objectification is above all exteriorization, the alienation of spirit from itself. — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
“I am, at this moment, what I have always been to him: an object of beauty. He has never loved me as… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
The evil is so ubiquitous in terms of objectification of all of us, that one can say that almost about any TV… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Why is this the "new feminism" and not what it looks like: the old objectification?” — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“By the end of the seventies the feared yet desired black male body had become as objectified as it was during slavery,… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“If we have no place to go where we can escape that reaction to our bodies, where is it that we're not… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
The assault on our body image, the hypersexualization of girls and women and subsequent degradation of our sexuality as we walk through… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
“At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat.… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority,… — Arthur Evans Copy Share Image
“A man is unlikely to be brought within earshot of women as they judge men's appearance, height, muscle tone, sexual technique, penis… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Here was the real scandal of On Our Backs photography: We were women shooting other women — our names, faces, and bodies… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
“Academics have spent too much time trying to explain objectification, considering that there’s an easy way to make white, Western men understand:… — Elisabeth Eaves Copy Share Image
“Judge that boy if you must; for debauchery, for objectifying innocence... but before you finalize your verdict, oh innocent reader, I beg… — Jake Vander Ark Copy Share Image
Objectification is a critical reason why an abuser tends to get worse over time. As his conscience adapts to one level of… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“In a sexual double standard as to who receives consumer protection, it seems that if what you do is done to women… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women. According to Appel, cult members develop..."an attitude… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Men who read it [beauty pornography] don't do so because they want women who look like that. The attraction of what they… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“For the first time in history, children are growing up whose earliest sexual imprinting derives not from a living human being, or… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Never," enjoins a women's magazine, "mention the size of his [penis] in public...and never, ever let him know that anyone else knows… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“A consequence of female self-love is that the woman grows convinced of social worth. Her love for her body will be unqualified,… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Their [girls] sexual energy, their evaluation of adolescent boys and other girls goes thwarted, deflected back upon the girls, unspoken, and their… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image