I thought these photomanipulations of 'news' headlines were quite funny, this shows and proves my point exactly, that everything that women do, whether it's just a normal everyday activity or not, is sexualised, especially in newspapers and magazines.
Even violence against women is sexualised, a lot of fashion magazines adopt the technique of showing women being dominated or alluding to them have just being raped or attacked and often show men being in positions of power of the women in the photos.
Sexualisation of women and girls in the media and music videos.
http://brightblue.org.uk/index.php/mailinglist/item/210-sexualisation-of-women
Robin Thicke's recent song Blurred lines caused outrage both from the lyrics and the music video, the video of naked women being groped and objectified by the men in the video (who are fully clothed) was banned on YouTube and the lyrics of the song, things like "I hate these blurred lines, I know you want it" suggest that the line between something that is acceptable and something that is classed as sexual harrasment is blurred solely because of a woman's appearance and how much skin she is choosing to show.
Furthermore, whilst pop songs and videos tell young people that women are sex objects and that there are ‘blurred lines’ when it comes to sexual consent, why is there no obligation on schools to counter these harmful messages by giving children and young people the chance to talk about consensual and respectful relationships?
Politics aside, the sexualisation agenda is important and supports work led by Home Secretary Theresa May to prevent violence against women and girls. There is a growing body of literature on the way that sexualisation provides a conducive context for violence against women and girls to occur by portraying women as constantly sexually available and men as sexual predators.
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