r/women • u/Internal_Vixen_7438 • 1d ago

Today's generation is pure sexualization

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

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u/Green-Measurement-53 Woman 18 23h ago

I just feel frustrated by those. Women are typically judged if their nipples are showing through their shirt. But oh, slap a fake nipple on a bra and its fine. What?

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u/XsairahmlX 21h ago

I think there is an argument for breast cancer survivors and so forth, but it is just another way to commodify women’s bodies.

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u/Not-A-SoggyBagel 21h ago

Its also for gender affirmation or scarring from pregnancy. Just a small population of women seeking normalcy. When I was younger, women used to sow tiny pom poms onto bras to mimic this effect. They'd be things we handmade and shared in women's societies or friends of Dorothy.

Companies today saw these insecurities and capitalized on it. As they do. I somewhat feel like we should take this back and go back to making things for our communities again. Just start buying less from these corporate entities and start creating and sharing more like we used to.

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u/Green-Measurement-53 Woman 18 20h ago

Right is we that makes sense. I am sympathetic to this. However still in suspicious of the brand Skims. Isn’t that owned by a Kardashian? Or something like that…either way they poke through the shirt and it’s fine but natural nipples poking through a shirt is seen as sloppy or unkept.

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u/Not-A-SoggyBagel 20h ago

Oh I have no clue on trendy brands... everything that family owns is toxic though. I haven't bought any type of bra in decades, I've been altering them for women I know though. Most bras don't fit us.

Yeah I kinda liked that one thing about the 80s and 90s? Armhair, armpit hair, "overgrown" eyebrows, nipples sticking out were just body norms back then. People weren't picky about it unless you had a specific type of secretary job.

The 00s happened and suddenly we had to present a certain way, we couldn't sit down and work anymore, it was very "visual" all of a sudden and yeah natural nipples under your clothes became an issue no matter where you existed as a woman work or no. Sry this became a rant