Women

Take a second to look at the title of this post. What is the first word that comes to mind? Power? Strength? Success? I genuinely hope those words came to your mind, but I fear that words like sex, object, submission and wear were the first to arise.

I have been home for three days and this is the first time I have actually sat down to watch TV, and I'll admit I have done a lot of it. While watching female empowerment movies such as The Princess Diaries and Legally Blonde, the display of commercials aired on TV contained extremely objectifying and sexualized images of women, and I am truly disappointed.

As a 19-year old woman, I hope to enter an equal opportunity world. I should be able to walk alone on a street and not question every man that walks past me. I recently read a fantastic article from 2013 (which may be outdated, but the ideas are still extremely relevant) which provides examples of how society views women in different types of situations. The examples outlined in the article really make me question how society functions this way. Women make up half the population and the world would literally stop expanding if women didn't exist. So why is there a gender gap? Why are women degraded on a daily basis? Why is this ok?

To me, this is a major problem. I hope you agree with me because something needs to change in this society and women need to be seen as more than boobs and a butt to advertise a man's cologne.