Jehmu Greene On Objectification Of Girls

In an interview with Katie Couric, Women's Media Center president Jehmu Greene talks about the affect of mainstream media images on girls and young women.

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[KamaraSune]

I would love to go to just "ONE" article or piece focused on women where a couple of asshat guys didn't feel the need to piss all over it with their negative comments. Try to find any article "just" for women where there are not a couple of guys playing the clown! Its impossible unless all comments are blocked!!!

[mephy7]

Women will always be objectified in one way or another. I don't like it but the truth and what I like isn't always the same.

[iluvnola123]

@mormor39 I have NO idea what you are talking about. The only reason my page is covered in ads is because Youtube has become filled with them...Another reflection of our consumerist culture. Clearly, you're not a woman, OR a feminist. I hate how people have so much hatred for individuals that are just trying to make this world a better place. Steinem is a goddess. Period.

[mormor39]

@iluvnola123 actually did you know that your own Youtube page is covered with adverts for debenhams fashion and for anti aging facial products. Do you get paid for such endorsements of the cult of an impossible female youth and beauty?

[mormor39]

@iluvnola123 actually I think you will find Millet, Dworkin and Greer have had more impact globally and that Steinem didn't make it past the US borders in terms of influence. beware of your jingo-ism. the most iconic anything of the century just sounds like yet another American colonialist attempt at hegemony. And to use the word revolutionary in respect to Steinem is a dark joke, unless you mean revolution in the terms that Barthes talked about. ie the way the word is used by advertising.

[iluvnola123]

@ifellinlovewithadead You're in an idiot. Especially if you don't know that the "woman in black" is Gloria Steinem, the most iconic and revolutionary feminist of the century.

[iluvnola123]

@mormor39 The woman in "Black" has a name and it's Gloria Steinem and she revolutionized the way in which women are treated socially, politically and economically in this country. She has tore millions of walls and broken thousands of glass ceilings in her lifetime.

[mormor39]

@ifellinlovewithadead I agree

The woman in Black is an old hippie - 'the right to express your sexuality' is a myth. Yoi can't untangle true or innate sexuality from the representations around it. What is so ridiculous in this debate is just how little of an anchor feminism now has, now that it has lost it's revolutionary agenda, all they're talking about here is whether or not some images might be changed or challenged, when they should be tearing down the walls on which the images are pasted.

[hyperseauton]

Rap, that is white upper-class Anglo-Saxon protestants, are bad for women's self-images...makes perfect sense to me.