More Than A Body: Your Body Is an Instrument, Not an Ornament

by Lexie Kite

When we are self-objectifying, our identities are split in two: the one living her life and the one watching and judging her.

Each of us has grown up in and experienced every second of life inside our own incredible bodies, and yet we judge and define how we feel about our bodies by how we think they look to others? That thought would be laughable if it weren’t so cry-able.

Why is it laughable? How we look is a big part of how others treat us.

When body ideals and sex appeal are factors in women’s evaluation by their employers, clients, students, doctors, family members, romantic prospects, and every stranger who passes by on the street or on the internet, women suffer. The burden is unbearable.

A whopping 62 percent of women in the US are over forty. But get this: older men appear as much as ten times more frequently than older women in entertainment media.