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What is Objectification?

Being Being represented represented and perceived and perceived and perceived and perceived as an object as an object (your body) (your body) rather than as rather than as a person.a person.

ObjectificationObjectification

It can be women or men

Why object to it?

It dehumanizes It dehumanizes and strips away and strips away identity of a identity of a identity of a identity of a person person by by reducing reducing them them to bodyto body, or just , or just parts of parts of bodybody. .

What is beauty?What is beauty?

“ A quality attributed to whatever pleases whatever pleases or satisfies the senses or mind”

Definition of beauty

Only 2% of women feel comfortable comfortable describing

themselves as beautiful

Source: Campaign for Real Beauty

We Are A Society Obsessed With Size

We Are A Society Obsessed With Size

We Are A Society Obsessed With Size

We Are A Society Controlled by Mass Media

In Mass Media

They sell you insecurityThey sell you insecurity

We’re obsessed by women’s breasts and their size

Many winning Pageants contestants secret formula is body

sculpting and plastic surgery

Plastic Surgery Includes

ll Breast augmentation,Breast augmentation,ll LiposuctionLiposuctionll Nasal surgeryNasal surgery

Eyelid surgeryEyelid surgeryll Eyelid surgeryEyelid surgeryll AbdominoplastyAbdominoplasty

Going under the knife

ll In US Over 12.5 Million people underwent In US Over 12.5 Million people underwent plastic surgeryplastic surgery

American Society of Plastic Surgeons

And it can go wrongAnd it can go wrong

Or badly wrong

Real and Idealized Selves

ll Ideal Self:Ideal Self:ll A person’s conception of how he or she would like to beA person’s conception of how he or she would like to bell Partially molded by elements of a consumer’s culturePartially molded by elements of a consumer’s culture

ll Actual Self:Actual Self:A person’s realistic appraisal of the qualities he or she A person’s realistic appraisal of the qualities he or she ll A person’s realistic appraisal of the qualities he or she A person’s realistic appraisal of the qualities he or she does and does not possessdoes and does not possess

ll Fantasy: Bridging the Gap between the Selves:Fantasy: Bridging the Gap between the Selves:ll Fantasy:Fantasy: A selfA self--induced shift in consciousnessinduced shift in consciousnessll Fantasy appeals:Fantasy appeals: Marketing communications aimed at Marketing communications aimed at

individuals with a large discrepancy between their real individuals with a large discrepancy between their real and ideal selves and ideal selves

Fantasy Appeals

Women feel need to get breast implants to get the right size

Petite, thin women worry Petite, thin women worry breasts too smallbreasts too small

Breast Augmentation

ll Our culture tends to equate breast size with Our culture tends to equate breast size with sex sex appeal thinking larger appeal thinking larger breasts will breasts will increase their allureincrease their allure

Supersize: 70% women dissatisfied with their breasts.

ll 300,000 breast augmentations and 100,000 breast 300,000 breast augmentations and 100,000 breast reductions reductions in US per year. in US per year.

Reality: A woman will have breasts that fit her frame

Breast Augmentation

ll Enhances the size of the breasts using inflatable saline or Enhances the size of the breasts using inflatable saline or silicone implantssilicone implants

ll Implants placed behind breast or pectoral muscle tissueImplants placed behind breast or pectoral muscle tissuell Cost: $5,850 (saline) $7,050 (silicone)Cost: $5,850 (saline) $7,050 (silicone)

“Breast Augmentation Surgery in Los Angeles” Personal Image Center <http://www.plasticsurgerysource.com/plastic-surgery/breast-enlargement.cfm> 22 March 2006.

Those who have breast surgery twice as likely to commit suicide

Breast size craziness spread to rest of world

ll Chinese and Japanese women were fairly Chinese and Japanese women were fairly flat chested, and flat chested, and thin, but now bra sizes thin, but now bra sizes there increasing. there increasing.

Media images make women believe the ideal is big and

perky breasts

Breasts come in all kinds of sizes and shapes: small to busty and vary with cycle and pregnancy

Asymmetrical breasts, nipples where one is bigger than the other, is very common as are

sagging breasts

Breast Enlargement Risks

ll Your Your body may reject the implantsbody may reject the implantsll Soreness, scars, swelling, change in nipple Soreness, scars, swelling, change in nipple

sensation from weeks to monthssensation from weeks to monthsll Risk of postRisk of post--operative infections and blood clotsoperative infections and blood clotsll Risk of postRisk of post--operative infections and blood clotsoperative infections and blood clotsll Fluid lossFluid lossll Nerve Nerve damagedamagell Implants Implants may need removal or replacement for may need removal or replacement for

problems such as deflation or the formation of problems such as deflation or the formation of scar tissue around the implantscar tissue around the implant

Many men are obsessed with the size of their penis.

Most women can’t tell the difference in penis variation

ll It’s not the size its It’s not the size its how you use it.how you use it.

Male Sexual Anatomy (cont.)

(internal, in pelvic cavity)(between glans and the body)

Internal structure of the penis: top view

Fig 5.1a Interior structure of the penis: (a) view from above.

(engorge with blood during arousal)(expands

to form the glans)

(head of the penis; lots of nerve endings)

Penile ImplantPenile Implant

Men are increasingly having cosmetic surgery too.

Corporate message sells insecurity to sell you product

Myth: 30 Million men have erectile dysfunction

Reality: It is too inclusive

Any problem with an erection is included. included.

They didn’t ask and is it a problem for you?

Female sexual dysfunction Female sexual dysfunction (FSD): Claim is 43% of women (FSD): Claim is 43% of women

suffersuffer

Pharma and Sex industry focus on 4 things:

Efficiency, numbers game, predictable, cookie-cutter sex

Common reasons why people have plastic surgery

ll to have a perfect bodyto have a perfect bodyll a job investmenta job investmentll recapture the looks they had in their youthrecapture the looks they had in their youth

born with physical defects that haunt them born with physical defects that haunt them ll born with physical defects that haunt them born with physical defects that haunt them throughout their childhood and throughout their childhood and adolescenceadolescence

ll disfigured by accidents or diseasedisfigured by accidents or diseaseReference: http://www.mybeautyonline.com/cosmetic-surgery/why-plastic-surgery.html

The Perfect Vagina

Like the “Perfect breasts”, or “Perfect Penis”is a myth created by the sex industry, to sell the“Perfect body.”

Does size matter?

ll Not at all. “Surely We created man of the Not at all. “Surely We created man of the best stature” Holy Quran best stature” Holy Quran 95:495:4

If we can learn to be content with the way God has created us, there is no greater source of peace

When is Cosmetic surgery OK?

ll Can’t do it just to be “more” attractiveCan’t do it just to be “more” attractivell In the In the Qur’ânQur’ân, God says that Satan will lead people astray and that , God says that Satan will lead people astray and that

one of the ways he will do this is to get them to alter Allah’s creation.one of the ways he will do this is to get them to alter Allah’s creation.

Reference: http://en.islamtoday.net/node/1327:If you have any questions check with a Muslim Scholar

When is Cosmetic surgery OK?

ll TTo correct deformities or to return a o correct deformities or to return a person’s appearance back to normal after person’s appearance back to normal after an accident, or disease (an accident, or disease (egeg breast cancer)breast cancer)

Reference: http://en.islamtoday.net/node/1327:If you have any questions check with a Muslim Scholar

Women come in all shapes & sizes

Observe in the street, gym, with girl-friends the variation in breasts

Don’t let them define you with a measurement and number

You may not be able to change societys view on breasts, but you can change your own

Less is more

ll Just because you Just because you have healthy have healthy breasts you breasts you shouldn’t flaunt shouldn’t flaunt shouldn’t flaunt shouldn’t flaunt them, not should them, not should you feel ashamed you feel ashamed of them. of them.

"Even I don't "Even I don't wake up wake up

:

wake up wake up looking like looking like

Cindy Cindy Crawford."Crawford."

Cindy Crawford

You are unique, you don’t need to abuse your body

Understand modern beauty is manufactured not real

ll The The “Evolution” video uses time“Evolution” video uses time--lapse photography to lapse photography to illustrate how much a model’s natural appearance has illustrate how much a model’s natural appearance has likely been modified in an advertisementlikely been modified in an advertisement

Images taken from “Evolution,” available at http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/dsef07/t5.aspx?id=7373&filmno=1

Beauty is the whole you Inner and Beauty is the whole you Inner and OuterOuter

So Beauty is about the whole self.

ll "O God, as "O God, as You have You have made my made my appearancappearance beautiful, e beautiful, e beautiful, e beautiful, likewise likewise make my make my character character beautiful.“ beautiful.“ Muhammad, Muhammad, Prophet of IslamProphet of Islam

Understand standards of beauty change over time

Be Accepting:Breasts, Penises are body parts

Of who we are, not making any alterations to Of who we are, not making any alterations to it. it.

We must believe

ll That all of God’s creation is beautiful, That all of God’s creation is beautiful, because He does not create anything because He does not create anything except with beauty and perfection.except with beauty and perfection.

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