Objectification In Social Media

Objectification can also be viewed in a different way in our society, where females are also having their rights taken away from them, where sexual violence becomes acceptable. This is a major reason why objectification of women needs to stop and we should not let it direct how we represent ourselves, we should not be scared to be ourselves. Where we are told we bring it on ourselves. This is why I want to discuss the impact of social media, Instagram mainly, where we view our body as sexual objects which they aren’t. Being objectified over and over by our society makes females become an object, thinking we are worth the same as what our body is. We are forced to make ourselves look prefect, pretty and sexy to please the viewer for more likes

One of these role models is Kim Kardashian (Fig.1) (talk about what she’s wearing) one of the most popular celebrities on social media, she is a fashion and body icon and the 6th most followed account in the world on Instagram (https://www.statista.com/statistics/421169/most-followers-instagram/). Kim is one of the celebrities who turned her life and body into gold, meaning it is all about the money. She works hard for her body to be perfect and it appears skinny but curvy at the same time, in the desirable places which I see as impossible to achieve for most women. There are many fans of hers that will do anything to follow in her footsteps, especially younger individuals such as teenagers, as they are the most influenced by media as they have grown up with it. In our society looks seem to matter to most people, we are obsessed with the idea of beauty and every day and every year it becomes more of an importance. We seek pleasure to meet the standards of the new trends and be as perfect as possible. Every account on Instagram has people that will judge us for the way we look and what we post, people don’t care about feelings as they may not know you but all they are doing is type it on media not saying it to your face so it doesn’t really affect them in person, as this is how we communicate nowadays, hiding behind our phones or laptops. When you post something, you should

Many average people, and also well-known celebrities, promote different brands and companies through Instagram. When you reach a certain number of followers, this qualifies you as ‘Instagram famous’ and many brands will try to get you to promote their products to your large following. Just like you see in movies when they allow the audience to see the make of the car to promote it, we do the same on Instagram. Some of the posts to promote brands or companies will make us do certain things and look certain ways to gain the right viewers and we will do it for the money without acknowledging that we are letting aourselves be objectified for it. I chose this specific post from Kim’s Instagram account as it brought about controversy about her promoting a new diet in which shakes are supposed to replace food. This doesn’t sound healthy at all but many fans will follow it and buy them as they will believe because of that they will be able to look like her which really becomes a health hazard and anorexia