I wanted to get some other viewpoints on a topic that has been an interest to me, and being apart of a community that promotes that I think it's a great opportunity. Women and their sexuality.
Over 50 years ago women were coming into the work place, 40 years ago we were fighting for our rights and becoming sexually liberated during the revolution in the 1960's. Hef came out with Playboy magazine; beautiful women... but it's a magazine marketed towards men. Fifty years later, beautiful women still grace the top magazine covers such as Comso and Maxim, but with headlines geared towards women and their sexuality .'How to Please Your Man' and '10 Ways to Get His Attention' are bombarded to women for men. Seems to me that women and their sexuality are always tied into a man's perception. It's an everyday thing to see advertisements with underlying sexual tones and hot girl promoting the product.
Women are made out to be sex symbols. Our sexuality dictated to the idea of what society says. A woman who doesn't show skin, "isn't sexy. Or doesn't know how to be. She's a prude." A woman who shows her body is being a "slut, and her body should only be for 'her' man to see, not everyone."
In my opinion, I don't think any woman should feel ashamed to be sexual and to show it off. We're human beings after all. It's our body and our choices. They're so many comments I read daily on girls pictures saying things like, "her boobs are too small," "her butt isn't big," "she has a kid, why are her clothes off!," "i wish my body was as perfect as yours." We were all born differently, and that's what makes us unique. That's real beauty. When everyone changes their ideas and their perception on what's appealing and appropriate to show then our young girls won't feel so insecure in their bodies. We should set an example that curly hair, straight hair, our breast size, waist size, the shape of our butts aren't what make us beautiful, its our minds. It's the way we think that should have more power, then we're a step closer to changing society's view. Let's create a world we are proud to live in. With less hate, more love.
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, "It's a girl." Shirley Chisholm
