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    Shifting the objectifying gaze: Focusing on women's personality disrupts sexual objectification
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    • Sep 14, 2020
    • 4 min

    Shifting the objectifying gaze: Focusing on women's personality disrupts sexual objectification

    By Marisa Ragonese I had a baby three summers ago, and she’s been hanging around me a lot ever since. One of the best parts about this whole kid thing, at least for me, is the radical shift from how men used to look at and treat me, and the way they do now. Most notably, the dudes I encounter in the day-to-day have generally stopped ogling my body, complimenting my body, insulting my body or otherwise harassing me. NOW they either look me in the eye when they talk to me or, i
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    6-pack abs & thigh gaps: Objectification, body image, & eating disorders for adolescent girls & boys
    sexgenlab
    • Jun 20, 2019
    • 5 min

    6-pack abs & thigh gaps: Objectification, body image, & eating disorders for adolescent girls & boys

    #teengirlsy Jenn Chmielewski *From the SPARK Research! Blog Archive: This blog was originally written for SPARK, a girl-fueled organization working to ignite an anti-racist gender justice movement Illustration by Calvin Sprague I didn’t know what the ‘thigh gap’ was until very recently (you’re supposed to have space between your thighs?!). But I can honestly say that I have always been aware of the fact that my thighs don’t fit the standards of perfection according to the med
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    Why do people objectify women’s bodies?
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    • Jun 6, 2019
    • 4 min

    Why do people objectify women’s bodies?

    By Marisa Ragonese Illustration by Neil Webb I had a baby three summers ago, and she’s been hanging around me a lot ever since. One of the best parts about this whole kid thing, at least for me, is the radical shift from how men used to look at and treat me, and the way they do now. Most notably, the dudes I encounter in the day-to-day have generally stopped ogling my body, complimenting my body, insulting my body or otherwise harassing me. NOW they either look me in the eye
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    Self-objectification discourages activism: "Objects don't object"
    sexgenlab
    • May 8, 2019
    • 5 min

    Self-objectification discourages activism: "Objects don't object"

    By Christin Bowman *From the SPARK Research! Blog Archive: This blog was originally written for SPARK, a girl-fueled organization working to ignite an anti-racist gender justice movement Here at SPARK, if there’s one thing we all love, it’s activism. We protest and picket and petition for change. We struggle to take sexy back with a fiery passion that burns deep within all of us – a SPARK that ignites us (pun very much intended). Being an activist isn’t always easy. In fact,
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    Sexual objectification as everyday trauma
    sexgenlab
    • Mar 28, 2019
    • 4 min

    Sexual objectification as everyday trauma

    By Jenn Chmielewski *From the SPARK Research! Blog Archive: This blog was originally written for SPARK, a girl-fueled organization working to ignite an anti-racist gender justice movement Like many women, I have put up with my share of sexual harassment, subway groping, and just dealing with plain old creepy dudes. This issue is so commonplace (women have been speaking up about it for ages) that the NYC MTA actually announces now that “a crowded subway is no excuse for unlawf
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    Sexualization in social media profile pictures
    sexgenlab
    • Mar 20, 2019
    • 5 min

    Sexualization in social media profile pictures

    By Marisa Ragonese *From the SPARK Research! Blog Archive: This blog was originally written for SPARK, a girl-fueled organization working to ignite an anti-racist gender justice movement Not too long ago, I worked at a drop-in center for LGBT youth in Queens. Every summer we participated in an activist “boot camp” for youth organizations all across NYC. We would plan workshops and lots of other activities for camp during the school year and then trek out to the country for a
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