misogyny and sexism were hardly exclusive to the Middle East, that the oppression of women in the West looked a little different, a little less explicit, but it was still happening all around them: everywhere she turned she was bombarded with hypersexualized images of women, messages so blatant they became invisible, encouraging the normalization of female objectification and amplifying age-old pressures for young girls to conform to certain sexualized narratives. Not to mention the psychological risks (shame, anxiety, depression) faced by women in a toxic culture that was constantly looking
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