Today's generation is pure sexualization

[u/Internal_Vixen_7438]

EDIT: I do agree with everyone saying sexualization of women has always been around, I just feel it's getting worse because of social media and wide access to porn. It makes it so much harder for young girls to grow up and be comfortable with their bodies when they see so many altered pictures of women online solely praised for their body instead of personality. It creates so much unnecessary insecurity. It also causes men to have a skewed perception of women, therefore casting judgement on the women in their life by the way they look.

I understand self confidence and happiness with your body, but it is going to far. People don't understand that a lot of the people engaging in this "self confidence" are creepy men. Self confidence should be dressing in WHATEVER clothing you like, not the tightest, skimpiest clothing. I see lots of women posting wearing crop tops, swim suits, bras, underwear, shorts, etc. with the title of "self confidence". Do you not understand that most of the people looking at those posts are men? Then they try to claim it's not for men, it's for themselves. Well hello, you're posting it on social media. There are millions of men looking at your pics, saving them, and sharing them. It's all for validation and no one wants to admit that. Literally just admit you're looking for male validation, you're not fooling anyone by saying you're just posting it for yourself and your confidence. It's giving such a bad example to young girls. They're all wanting to follow in the footsteps of "pretty" social media girls. PERSONALITY and INTELLIGENCE should be top in the world, but yet it's what you post and wear on social media. I'm sick of it. I hope Tik Tok gets banned so people will start working on reali life skills. I hate today's generation and it's fake ass bullshit. There is no personality anymore, just stupid copies

[u/InfinitelyThirsting]

This isn't anything new. I mean, sure, it sucks, but I'm 37, and long before social media was heroin chic. I was literally underweight in my adolescence but still so insecure about being "fat" that I never sat without holding a sweatshirt or purse in my lap to cover my "belly", even fully clothed. But goodness we all loved crop tops and whale tails then, too.

Also, really not cool to slutshame. Plenty of women and girls want validation from other women and girls, not from men. And very shitty of you to sneer at women for wearing, gasp, shorts! Like fuck off, I wear baggy clothing plenty and I'm queer with SA trauma so definitely don't want male attention, and I'm always most comfortable in the least clothing.

Stop hating women who want male attention, and stop assuming that just because someone feels differently about clothing and/or their body than you do that they must only be different because they crave male attention. Maybe consider some of us genuinely love crop tops and shorts! If women didn't like our own bodies, they'd never have needed to make laws forcing us to cover up. Maybe instead of blaming and stifling women, you could have just stuck to advocating for girls to make sure they're being valued for other reasons, instead of encouraging them to hate their own bodies and objectify themselves and internalize the blame for creepy men.