Why are women objectified more than men ? Even by other women ?

On EP, a guy was "complaining” that women’s bodies are more fetishized than men’s, and he thought it was unfair. It kind of is, but not necessarily in the way he meant.

Women’s bodies are valued as things, first and foremost. Things to display, things to barter. Even other women buy into it. That’s probably why so many people think they have the right, even the imperative to legislate women’s reproductive choices.

Rant over.

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SwampFlower · 31-35, F

Up until recent history we were literally considered as nothing more than a man's property.

I remember my maternal great grandmother teaching me her values before I was even old enough to read. Thankfully I had elders on the other side reminding me that women used to have all the power in some places.

It will take generations to unlearn the damage.

bijouxbroussard · F

@SwampFlower My grandmother (the original Jewel Broussard) put herself through college so that she could teach at the "colored" schools, they always needed teachers. At age 32, her family told her she had to give it up and get married. The "good news", they told her, was because she was still pretty, they had found a prospective groom for her, among family friends. To refuse would’ve left her ostracized, not just from her family, but her entire community. So that was her lot. Her son, (my father) said that he saw how sad she often was.

SwampFlower · 31-35, F

@bijouxbroussard Hard to believe that there are women now who are still advocating to go back to that place.

bijouxbroussard · F

@SwampFlower That’s what blows my mind. They want that cage, not just for themselves, but they want to drag other women back, too. Often it seems to be younger women who have some romanticized idea about those days.