Objectification Theory, Assingment 2

 While reading the two materials I had a more detailed  and a deeper view about all kinds of objectifications and beauty concepts which are actually prescribed vivid with true facts and examples .A lot of theories consisted the two lectures with good explenations which make us all rethink and reflect about the way our world is .
" Beauty myth'' presented a lot of theories which all are absolutely agreeable.Each one of them was supported with concrete examples and with well-based theories that made me open my eyes and have another point of view.

Exactly in this passage I have extracted from there made go deeper in my thoughts:
''The beauty myth of the present is more insidious than any mystique of femininity yet: A century ago, Nora slammed the door of the doll’s house; a generation ago, women turned their backs on the consumer heaven of the isolated multiapplianced home; but where women are trapped today, there is no door to slam.''
It's ironic in fact how women have fought for their rights for years and fortunately their life is not as difficult as it was before,and yet women are facing other issues.It's about "Beauty Myth''.It's like a paradox.Dealing with issues and not having the ability to fight or  protest against the cause.It's actually true women have grown stronger,entering politics or having the same positions as man in diffirent industries.While before and  nowadays women could fight and protest about their rights,giving laws about discrimantion,abusement ect, but there's another deeper situation.The beauty myth of the present is more insidious,women are fighting with themselves.It's them who are slaming the door to themselves trying to be perfect.They are suffering both phisically and psichologicaly .Society and marketing have a big impact in women's portrayment of themselves.Women are poisoned by the notion of beauty and some of them have the aging terror or have self-hatred about their apperance.
They are trapped in the ideal perfect view the society has of a female.They have became obssesed with physical beauty and feeling they are never going to be like the sexy girl shown in the magazine cover whose breasts are never droopy and whose face never ages but it gets shinnier and smoother.Unconsciously women tend to compare themselves with other women and end up feeling bad about their apperance and unconsciously fulfill society's desires and loosing themselves.Beauty myth is another limitation of women's freedom but this time within themselves.

Approving and reflecting on the lectures theories there was this one which made me hold on for a second :
"By viewing and treating themselves as sexual objects, it is argued that girls and women act as their own first surveyors in anticipation of being evaluated by others."
Although it's just a claim it's completely unacceptable.It's in fact hypocritical to say that females self objectify, or look at themselves like'' what should be done in myself to be fancied by others'' while it is society and men who makes them self objectify.It is society that forces women as I said above to judge themselves based on its criteria.It's actually deeper than just saying that women self objectify for attention and evaluation.Of course it's more like a psychological matter ,lacking confidence and having a lower self-esteem ,but in my opinion that is just the result or the outcome of this issue and I think it is unappropiate to make such a claim with no any bases at all.