The effect of increasing sexualization of women in the media

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You barking at me isn't real communication. It's simply you patting yourself on the back for you perceived superiority. That isn't the way to share information or come to any sort of understanding of the other persons position.

Would you prefer I bark? I make for a rather good dog, if you ask me.

So sorry to have upset your sensibilities... would you prefer I also simply dismiss any and all arguments you made while telling you that you're not 'really communicating'?

I wasn't taught anything about feminism. I've had to come to my own conclusions. I am a college educated woman, perfectly capable of thinking for myself. Thanks! Here you demonstrate precisely the reason I don't wish to try to continue our conversation.

I also wasn't born on Earth: something we have in common! What a cool coincidence, right?

Who was forcing you to come to your own conclusions? Why do your conclusions look to be so much like other people's conclusions (so much so that you even use their arguments, and not yours, when pressed)?

I thought you said that you weren't taught anything about feminism, who had to come up with her own conclusions... and yet here you are: a college educated woman! Thanks!

Here you bring forward yet another dismissal of any conversation starting... you've been so awfully busy with not conversing: it's a wonder that you have time to make snappy condescension And I mean... I could go on not-talking to you forever, without ever becoming bored... or you could take the plunge, and maybe think about something for a change... and maybe make another think about something new for a change.

Maybe (<random insult so that you know it's actually an insult, something about doubts and existentialism (deep stuff, right?)>). But hey, we can't all fish for pants: someone's gotta weave the baskets!

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Nothing, so long as there's a character behind it that's more than an irritating mishmash of stereotypes and cliches. That's the difference between sexy and sex object; there's effort put into sexy.

Sexy doesn't necessarily have to be an effort

Objects can have sexual value, though... 'sexy' is used to refer to an object with a high enough sexual value to capture one's interest, whereas 'sex object' is either an object that is solely/largely valued for its sexual value (overlap with sexy), or a (usually derogative) colloquialism for an personality-having object that's sexually available (often to the point where the object is depersonified), typically with the sexual value of the object holding the highest value when one is regarding such.

That... was a mouthful. Like a laffy taffy when you're sick!