Quotes tagged ‘Objectification’

“We have to fight the objectification of women.”

— Charles Randolph, Gretchen Carlson, Nicole Kidman, imdb.com

“[Hal is going to make his move on some unattractive girls] Hal: I'm going for the one in the middle. You can have your pick of the other two. Mauricio: So you get the hyena, and I have to choose between the hippo and the giraffe?”

— Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, Sean Moynihan, Hal Larson, Jack Black, imdb.com

“Tony Robbins: Hal, don't you think you're being a bit shallow here in the way you look at women? Hal: Well, no! You know, I'd like her to be into culture and shit, too. Tony Robbins: Ok Hal, hypothetical situation; Which do you prefer, a girlfriend missing one breast or half a brain? Hal: Hmmm, toug…”

— Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, Sean Moynihan, Hal Larson, Jack Black, imdb.com

“Here's a poem dedicated to every guy I've ever been with: ‘Your Penis Is Kinda Nice, Too Bad You're Attached to It!’”

— Rick Cleveland, Edie, Mena Suvari, imdb.com

“I don’t think it was actually the person that I was after, I think it was the dream. I know that’s not really nice to say about a person, but they were basically an object. They were just an object. That’s all they were. I had more satisfaction building up to it and afterwards than I did the actual…”

— Dennis Rader, nbcnews.com

“I had been having, for a couple of years before that, fantasies of meeting a good-looking hitchhiker and [dramatic pause] sexually enjoying him.”

— Jeffrey Dahmer, angelfire.com

“It's a process, it doesn't happen overnight, when you depersonalize another person and view them as just an object. An object for pleasure and not a living breathing human being. It seems to make it easier to do things you shouldn't do.”

— Jeffrey Dahmer, imdb.com

“I'm not naive to the ways of men. Their need to objectify, conquer. They see what they want to see. Women, however, see into the soul of a person.”

— Jennifer Salt, Moira O'Hara, Alexandra Breckenridge, imdb.com

“I think it all comes down to what kind of person you are and how you view things. That can make you feel objectified or view it as objectifying.”

— Jessie Andrews, i-d.vice.com

“Bela: You know, when this is over, we should really have angry sex. Dean: [after thinking hard] Don't objectify me.”

— Laurence Andries, Dean Winchester, Jensen Ackles, imdb.com

“In his eyes, I was not an artist. I wasn’t even a person. I was a thing: not a nobody, but a body.”

— Salma Hayek, nytimes.com

“Fashion models feign ignorance of the camera lens in order to signal that we are not their interlocutors, but rather voyeurs whose desires are roused only to be rechanneled toward the items for sale.”

— Rhonda Garelick, thecut.com

“Yes! I believe in objectification. The human eye makes objects.”

— Camille Paglia, chatelaine.com

“Don't use women as a writing technique if you're not trying to actually understand or value them.”

— Ari Eastman, facebook.com

“We teach girls shame. Close your legs; cover yourself. We make them feel as though being born female, they're already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up--and this is the worst…”

— Chimamamda Ngozi Adichie, thoughtcatalog.com

“The day that women can casually be topless and not be raped or degraded will be the day that women will be equal in society.”

— Willow Smith, twitter.com

“Expressing sexuality in art is not an invitation for disrespect. Just like wearing a short skirt is not asking for assault. Women's choice... Our bodies, our clothing, our music, our personalities... sexy, flirty, fun. It is not. an open. invitation. You are literally saying that if we look a certai…”

— Ariana Grande, rollingstone.com

“I'm sorry for my friend objectifying you, but in her defense, you are fine as hell.”

— Jessica Day, netflix.com

“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagina…”

— Ralph Ellison, barnesandnoble.com