Examples of objectify in a Sentence

She says beauty pageants objectify women.

Recent Examples on the Web The catalogue essays point to the obvious sensuality of the woman, to the erotic drama of her captivity and the way that invites viewers, especially men, to objectify her for visual gratification. — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 14 May 2022 Like pickup artists, high-value dating can objectify the opposite gender and turns dating into a game to be won, with a high-value partner as the prize. — Eve Upton-clark, refinery29.com, 21 Apr. 2022 Like pickup artists, high value dating can objectify the opposite gender and turns dating into a game to be won, with a high value partner as the prize. — Eve Upton-clark, refinery29.com, 20 Apr. 2022 Readers were quick to categorize this as the latest example of an insidious double standard in which media outlets reporting on sports focus on the athletic achievements of men, yet persistently objectify the bodies of women. — Christine Yu, Outside Online, 8 Mar. 2022 In the third act, the mirrors are tilted even further to objectify and sexualize the literal and metaphorical climax of the play, making its violence and eroticism inescapable. — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2022 Outfits that make fun of people's size, objectify human beings, or otherwise make light of a person's lived experience are reflections of poor judgment. — Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2021 On social media, women cheerfully objectify the hot duke from Bridgerton and members of the Korean boy band BTS, while a man talking about female tennis players in similar terms would get pilloried as sexist. — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2021 For instance, according to a new report from the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, Hollywood continues to objectify female Asian American and Pacific Islander characters, as my CNN colleague Harmeet Kaur reported last week. — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021 See More

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