Pressure: What Men Want

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Women: it's difficult to say that, over the years, we haven't been put through a lot, because we have. We've come a long way, but we do still have some battles to fight. A big problem today that women are dealing with is objectification, mostly from men. Almost every female was, or will be objectified at least once in their lifetime, and it does affect us.

Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object -- and most particularly an object of vision: a sight, (John Berger, Ways of Seeing, 1977).

Men make it known -- what they want -- even if it is disrespectful. Maybe its just the way they are, or maybe they have developed the idea that this kind of disrespect is OK.

Maybe it's that, over the years, women have almost accepted their expectations to act and look a certain way, despite internal struggles; and this is probably not even a conscious act. After a while, it's normal for us, as human beings, to adapt to things after they've been a certain way for so long.

Ever since the beginning of human civilization history, an enormous amount of pressure has been put on women. Today, a common implicit obligation on women is set by the male desire. Many women feel that without the features that men so emphatically desire, they're not good enough or they will not be noticed at all.

Is the make desire to blame? Are men a piece of the puzzle for the mass distortion of female body image?

Men and women are both a subject to the media and conformism's impacts on body image, but for women, appearance may be critical much more than men due to the disproportionate roles of "power" that have ruled gender rolls for thousands of years.

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"Every day, ordinary women are being reduced to their sexual body parts," said study author Sarah Gervais, a psychologist at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. "This isn't just something that supermodels or porn stars have to deal with."

Multiple studies have proven the negative effects of the objectification on women. These studies have proven that being objectified and sexualized may lead to many other issues such as body shame, eating disorders and poor mood. But today, the majority of men don't see these quality components of women, they see the outside, which is just an "object," but, is the media to blame for this behavior today?

"The media is probably a prime suspect," Garvais said. "Women's bodies and their body parts are used to sell all sorts of products, but we are now for everyday, ordinary women, processing them in a similar way."

In a way, it's almost inevitable that men will treat women a certain way when this objectification is all over the media.

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