Martha Bussbaum's Argument Analysis

I just can't live without it! (Chers) In this quote Chers mentions that nobody cares about the prostitutes they just do want whatever they paid for and than they leave. Chers believes that prostitutes are more than just sex toys, although what they do is not the best thing they are humans

Haywood incorporates this idea of making the heroine disguise herself as a prostitute to ensure that she is able to experience the control high classed women of the eighteenth century have always been deprived of. She is ridiculing society and its limitations of women in higher

Alissa Quart from New York magazine defines hipster sexism as “the objectification of women but in a manner that uses mockery, quotation marks, and paradox.”. Additionally, hipster sexism is associated with the use of irony and satire to suppress women. Although, a majority of hipster males and females claim to be feminists, hipster sexism is ironically prevalent in the sub-culture. Hipster sexism is ironic because hipster sexism is usually done by those who “should know better” or those who identify as a feminists and politically progressive people who would condone classic sexism. Hipster sexism is commonly executed with a sexist insult but in a funny way making it seem as if sexism is acceptable because “its just a joke” which is different from classic sexism in which someone may say that being raped is the victim’s fault.

Prostitution: The Legitimacy of the Government to Limit Private Act of Citizens Introduction The Hart-Devlin debate is one of the most heated debates concerning the regulation of morality. It is always hard to determine how far the government can put limits on the citizens’ private actions. I hope to illustrate my stance by considering the case of prostitution. Prostitution is the “practice or occupation of [providing sexual services] for payment.” This essay will only focus on women prostitution as it is more prevalent. I would first examine the issue from the Kantian perspective.

Her father uses her as a tool to accomplish his tasks, and due to this treatment, Ophelia loses the ability to possess a unique identity of her own. This concept of dehumanization is furthered in regards to Ophelia through the imagery of prostitution. References to prostitution in relation to Ophelia are made most prominently by Polonius and Hamlet. The above quotation emphasizes Ophelia’s passivity and powerlessness, she is unable to navigate her father’s desires and it is through this that she is objectified. In a like manner, Hamlet’s usage of prostitution imagery towards Ophelia serves to create a form of irony.

In the reading, “Two ways a Woman Can get Hurt ” by Jean Kilbourne, Kilbourne starts off with how in today’s society woman in advertisements are degraded and sexualized. Basically, the media and advertisements use woman’s bodies as objects to sell whatever it is that they are selling. Kilbourne also states that often these pictures can be somewhat pornographic. Kilbourne goes on with explaining that when you use pornographic-like images it exploits woman and only does them harm. When everything is so sexualized in today’s society it makes the power-less more vulnerable and at risk.

Kilbourne argues how sex in advertising, subconsciously promotes violence against women. With ads about alcohol, skimpy clothing, and even one about an elevator, Kilbourne reveals that these kinds of ads can signify violence, when paid enough attention to. These ads play on the media so often nowadays, that society is numb to them and no longer pays close attention to what the ads are implying. Not only does sex in advertising objectify women, but when a man is objectified, the woman is blamed for not so being innocent, which is what Kilbourne argues as further poor treatment towards women. Sex in advertising seems to allow dominant and forceful men to get away with violating the passive and playful women because the women are teasing.

On the other hand, lower-class women were viewed as “toys” for male pleasure, while upper-class wives were seen as accessories. Women were expected to remain virgins until marriage, while men often lost their virginity to prostitutes. Learning about gender expectations clarified many aspects of Bayardo and Angela’s relationship. Because of cultural norms such as machismo, Bayardo viewed Angela’s previous sexual encounters as a violation of the unspoken social contract of machismo. Bayardo saw Angela’s partner(s) as a threat to his masculinity, thinking that his social status would be destroyed if anyone were to find out.

Indeed, it is a universally distinctive characteristic of all forms of prostitution, whether a woman (or, less commonly, a man) is coerced or not. Even when a woman chooses to become a prostitute and is paid the agreed sum by her client, the transaction differs from most other types of commercial business. Being a prostitute means that one’s body and sexuality are objectified, impersonalized, and commodified. One’s entire body becomes the property of the client, and thus one’s personal autonomy is stripped away. (Tanaka, 2002, p.

In this day and age the legality of prostitution as aprofession shouldn’t be and isn’t an issue anymore asthese women need the means to earn so they can keep themselves off the streets (or on them, if that’s what’s required of them). The major troubling issue, however, is the mistreatment they face from their customers and pimps as well as the society itself which would rather shun them for being dragged into a stigmatized profession instead of extending a helping hand to rescue them from the gutters. The treatment these sex workers are subjected to on a daily basis is inhumane to say the least and their inability to take any legal recourse makes things even worse. Forced into a life of terror and subjugation, abused by customers and their madames, some even shipped off to our neighbouring countries, there aren’t too many places these women can turn to for