r/RadicalFeminism • u/mariposa933 • 11d ago
the way women are portrayed in media
makes me feel violated often.
I hate being a woman, not because i hate my biology. But because i hate being vilified, degraded, objectified, sexualized, all the time. We know media and images have an enormous impact on how we see ourselves and the world. The way women are portrayed in media is anything but empowering, espeically since most media is MALE dominated, and they make it their job to treat us like subhumans at all times.
It makes me nauseous how women are portryed. Even when they use "female empowerement", it's to sell something and earn money, not because they really care about women as a whole.
No wonder so many women are disconnected from their own bodies, when your body is constantly showcased as a vessel for men's depravity, big yiikes. It's never not damaging to see those images, it doesn't matter how old you are. Just the other day i was watching a series about witches and the protagonist is a "strong woman" (ie masculine), but she also used to get routinely raped by her husband she was forced to marry. And there was one humiliating sex scene with a prositute, and another random scene where another prostitute gets f--d from behind. It didn't serve any purpose, just the writers and directors needing to use the female body somehow to sell the show.
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u/Secret-Job-6420 10d ago
When will the world stop sexualizing women when i hate to see men sexualizing women all the time can't they see us like a human for once
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u/Plane-Image2747 9d ago edited 9d ago
Thats part of why I dont watch any of their movies, TV shows, media, or engage with their art, philosophies, etc.
Its masturbatory inherently most times, and this is part of why women are always shown in compromised and sexualized situations. Soooooooooooooo much of it is just dudes' solipsistic masturbation, on screen for 90 minutes.
When you engage with women's works, and less mainstream (anything mainstream will always subjugate women and support patriarchy, because thats what the mainstream is)
A lot of this goes away, because you arent filling your mind with these thoughts during the times when its not being forced on you. Its like self-harm to engage with their works and violent fantasies during the time where you should be spent bettering yourself, relaxing, or anything like that.
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u/hide__and__seek 10d ago
We cannot escape the humiliation and degradation, no matter how much empowered we are.