Study: Proof That We Sexually Objectify Women

[zazen]

1. I wish we could conduct the study pre mass-media

Of course, male dominance has existed in various forms across most cultures at least back to the onset of the agricultural revolution.

But the particular form of sexual objectification we've seen in the past 100 years or so seems to me to be strongly abetted if not driven by enculturation to hold women to outrageously rigid, self-policed standards of physical appearance.

I wonder if prior to learning to break women's body parts down according to mass media standards, which has gotten worse as an enculturated habit just in my 40 years on this planet, if both genders would have seen women more holistically (within the context of this study) but still ascribed other signs of inferiority.

Interestingly, and I know I'm not the first to comment on this, the most similar pre-mass media case we have of parading human bodies before consumers to be evaluated were slave auctions.