French Museum Denies Entry To A Woman Over Low-Cut Dress
The museum did not let her enter till she put on a jacket to cover her cleavage. The French student admitted that the incident made her feel “sexualised as a woman.”
Female Objectification
Today I Learnt: The Male Gaze Has Three Perspectives
Laura Mulvey, a British film theorist described the “male gaze” in her essay, ‘Visual pleasure and narrative cinema’. She wrote, ‘In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between the active\male and passive\female’. This means that visual media reduces female characters with virtues and aspirations into mere objects of aesthetic value.
Petition To Have Netflix Film 365 Days Removed Racks Up 75,000 Signatures
The petition states that Netflix should have included a disclaimer about the sexual violence within the film, and wants it removed permanently.
Women Dress Shaming Other Women: We Have Internalised Policing
When it comes to what women wear, the entire world has an opinion to offer but nothing is more demoralising than other women dress shame you. Every woman in this world has the right to wear what she wants to. She isn’t answerable to anyone on her choice of clothes. But often it is women […]
Does Porn Consumption Among Men Lead To Women’s Objectification?
Porn consumption among men is either deemed entertainment or means of pleasure, but does it lead to objectification of women? It is not a secret how porn mostly objectifies women. Porn, which glamourises sex, often banks on enticing men with the bait of “sultry” and “sexy” women. In other words, it refers to women with […]
