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A 2009 Princeton University-based study led by psychologist Susan Fiske revealed how commonplace objectifying women — especially those who reveal their bodies in any way — truly is.

The study found that when men were shown images of “scantily clad” women, the region of the brain associated with tool use lit up. Some men included in the study even had zero brain activity in the area of the brain used to gauge another person’s thoughts, feelings or intentions, according to National Geographic’s coverage of the study.

Fiske and her team also found that men largely associated bikinis with “I” action verbs (like “I grab”) and images of modestly dressed women with third person action verbs (“she grabs”), suggesting that men largely see women as sentient humans rather than objects only when not distracted by their bodies.

Our obsession with “beach bodies” reveals how normalized female objectification has become 
via sancty
Posted on Thursday, September 10 2015.
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Feminism What is a feminist?
An advocate of social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.

What is intersectionality?
Intersectionality is the study of intersections between different disenfranchised groups, the study of interactions between oppression or discrimination.


Anti-sexism. Anti-racism. Anti-ageism. Anti-homophobia.
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