Jennifer Lawrence and the objectification of women
by Kelli
By insinuating that women ought to “pay up” and provide naked photos of themselves to whatever man they’re in a relationship with at the moment, [actress Jennifer] Lawrence objectifies women. She degrades them as little more than sex objects, designed to satisfy the appetites of men.
I can’t even express how wrong this is. No, young woman, it is not your duty to take and share naked photos of yourself with your boyfriend. If you believe he’s either going to look at you or find other naked women, find a different man.
You deserve better.
There are men out there who actually respect women and their bodies. They would never expect their woman to text naked photos of herself. Objectifying – and all too often humiliating – yourself in this way is not what a good, respectful man expects….
Unfortunately, it’s these kind of objectifying attitudes that wage a real War on Women in our nation. When women feel like objects and things that men can own, it sadly follows that they view their own children as objects and things that they can freely discard.
~ Kristi Burton Brown, responding to actress Jennifer Lawrence’s claim that “either your boyfriend is going to look at porn or he’s going to look at you,” Live Action News, October 9
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
I think it’s sad that so many women accept the notion that most men seek out porn.
But I did read the article. I won’t look at the leaked photos out of respect not only for private nudity, but also to resist the idea that celebrities and/or young people “deserve” to be hacked because “everybody knows” the internet can be hacked. Yes, any house can be broken into, and any file probably opened, but it’s sad how I hear people talking about it, having no sympathy for the women involved.
A lot of ordinary girls are allowing themselves to be photographed nude or taking selfies nude because they think they can “control” it and that it empowers them. A lot of non-famous people also have their lives disrupted by unlawful distribution of their private photos.
Jennifer Lawrence [claims] that “either your boyfriend is going to look at porn or he’s going to look at you,”
She’s not fooling anyone but herself. If a guy is hooked on porn, no girlfriend is going to change that. I hope she wakes up to reality before she gets seriously hurt.
A lot of ordinary girls are allowing themselves to be photographed nude or taking selfies nude because they think they can “control” it and that it empowers them.
A friend’s granddaughter who lives with her did this in middle school, sixth grade, sending a selfie to a boy by cell phone. When my friend told me about it, I was shocked and saddened, couldn’t grasp why. She said the girl said “everybody was doing it” and “it was the only way she could get a boyfriend”.
She and both I agreed that if that was the only way to get a boyfriend, it’s better not to have one. Especially at such a young age! She also took the cell phone away.
Our society is sick and corrupt.
Porn is a huge problem.
Jesus said if any man (or woman) looks at a woman to lust for her they have already committed adultery in their heart. Not many ministers preach against sin like they should. Either they don’t want to offend their congregations or they’re bound by lust themselves.
Church is not supposed to be a social club. It’s supposed to be a holy place where the Word of God is preached and sinners and backslidden Christians are convicted and given the opportunity to seek God for repentance.
America desperately needs a revelation of the fear of the Lord. He’s loving and merciful but His love must be understood in the context of His holiness.
Dont even know who she is but if he wants you to look like a porn star does he want you to perform like one too? Also if hes looking a nudes of you hes probably looking at nudes. ( magazines ) everywhere.
Ed H: You sure have that right. Lust leads to birth control/abortion as fast as the devil can lead one. Have hear sermons on abortion. BC a few times in passing. Lust? Never!
“Church is … supposed to be a holy place where the Word of God is preached and sinners … are convicted and given the opportunity to seek God for repentance.”
Well said Ed H. Too many pastors fear a decline in offerings if they preach the conviction of Law and the repentance in accepting Gospel.
The goddess gaia has not served her daughters well. But to be fair gaia’s daughters have also done themselves an even greater dis-service by pandering to the ‘male’ of the species.
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Evolution has some serious flaws when it comes to producing an increasingly more perfect organism.
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GOD……oh never mind.
She’s not fooling anyone but herself. If a guy is hooked on porn, no girlfriend is going to change that. I hope she wakes up to reality before she gets seriously hurt.
I’m glad I’m old, nobody wants to “sext” a fifty something women.
Progressives, etc., will say that nothing is wrong with porn but I beg to differ. My brother is in his early fifties and has an addiction to porn since his early twenties, meaning he has had this obsession for DECADES. He must have spent in the five figures. and he is not wealthy. He is in his early fifties now and has never had a serious, long-term relationship with a woman. He used to talk to me about it (porn) until I told him I didn’t want to hear about it It’s kind of sad because he still wants to start a family, but doesn’t have any prospects.
I have to admit I looked at some porn films once, out of curiousity. I did not find it sexy or erotic at all, it was just like animals “doing it.” In fact, I felt disgusted by it.
Phillymiss thats a good way of putting it. I watched one but it really is too filthy to put up here. Its called The Devil In Miss Jones starring the ( at the time ) ever popular Jenna Jameson. Jenna is the devil
The original film wwas made in the 60s or 70s but it was remade. The first scene is about a young attractive girl who keeps seeing nude ppl engaging in sex acts. Eventually the movie advances and you see she was a virgin who kills herself. One scene had a 3 way engaging in 2 men and one woman having sex on a dumpster….yes a dunpster! Gross. The actress is allowed to have one day of lust on earth before going to hell for eternity. Freaky ending.
In other words the dead virgin finds/sees herself dead annd shes horrified. As the sex scenes flash she is biting her pearl necklace ( the only article of “clothing” she is wearing. She is in lust so Jenna tells her what happened and to have all the sex she wants before she goes off to hell for eternity. She has sex all day and suddenly shes in a room with men begging for more. All of the men ignore her and she becomes so frustrated pleading “Please just once more.” Thats how the movie ends.
@Phillymiss please read my follow up comment to you about Ellen Vs. Oprah under the Jennifer Garnner page before it falls off the page.
Also it says adultry has already been comitted if a man looks with lust at another female. It has been comitted in the heart. These men and women get paid to go at it like freaks. Or as phillymiss says animals. Eh no wonder HIV is running rampant in the porn industry. Actress Cameron Bay caught it at age 28 and infected her boyfriend. She and Anthony Weiners former mistress did a porn with an A. Weiner look alike. Bay noticed blood on the tip of his penis yet both women declined a condom. The actor knew he was infected but said nothing. Bay was devastated after testing positive and the other actress is negative so far. Bay is now beating herslf up saying “I should have used a condom.”
Seeing that most porn addiction advances to an addiction where the person in the film (always a woman) experiences mortifying humiliation become more and more the center of the thrill, and that the many times porn addiction can progress to child molestation because the goal is to denigrate instead of dignify the human. It’s a total flesh trade, no different than slavery, and the suicide rate is absurd, and alot of long term porn addicts want help, like others who have been totally objectified sexually, they are just too ashamed themselves to reach out or don’t know where to begin. The book PORNLAND is EXCELLENT, and it covers this topic. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7621071 A fact is that 80% of American males watch it on a regular basis, so what this actress is saying is not too far from the truth. But the fact is that there are 20% of men who do not. Those are the men who can form relationships without expecting their girlfriends to humiliate themselves. This particular social ill could possibly, singlehandedly, be the reason for the decline of the family in modern America.
What American Dad is going to be able to pity his teenage daughter after she has been humiliated by her first crush, or care if his wife is feeling like the sex he feels entitled to is denigrating. Think about it, if, in America, we said, hey, you can only watch porn being acted out by immigrants or by black people, or by men, or by women, if we limited who could act in porn films, it is the one employment situation where it would be unjust and exploitive of the worker in that circumstance… so then is it no less unjust to make it legally protected for EVERYONE of EVERY BACKGROUND legal to perform as human slaves, it’s prostitution and it’s slavery, and it kills mans ability to love.
It teaches men and women that it’s okay to humiliate women when pleasing. this is the exact opposite of Christianity. I wonder if that study means that only 20% of American Men are truly practicing Christians.
Porn has also contributed a great deal to the abortion rate, because if you are using a woman for sex, and get her pregnant, it’s of course, quite humiliating for her to then go through with an abortion, and not because of social stigma, but because she has failed to live up to her role as a sex object, and this ‘mistake’ on her part, (it’s always the woman’s ‘fault’, thanks porn!), is going to cost her, and the more aware she is of the fact that abortion is a lie called “choice” the worse i is for her, and, let’s face it, the more laughable it is for the ones spitefully using her. But alas the Bible says love those who spitefully use you… however, it DOES NOT SAY, keep getting used by them. I was reading in second letter of John that you are not even supposed to wish peace on an evil doer, because that is participating or associating with them. But we’re supposed to forgive them and pray for them, but even David, when he prayed for his enemies, mentioned that they be blessed with a sense of shame for going against God in hurting the innocent. Porn is hateful, it needs to end and once America can turn from porn, I feel like abortion will be next. That Lawrence is accepting objectification puts her in dangerous territory not only as a pretty woman, but as a human being in the image of God, and thus, the bane of the satan. She is leading girls astray, which SUX.
“most porn addiction advances to an addiction where the person in the film (always a woman) experiences mortifying humiliation become more and more the center of the thrill” – does it? I’d not heard that. Which studies tell us about such?
“and that the many times porn addiction can progress to child molestation because the goal is to denigrate instead of dignify the human” – does it? I’d not heard that. Which studies tell us about such?
“It’s a total flesh trade, no different than slavery” – well it is a flesh trade but I don’t recall slaves volunteering to become slaves.
You don’t think any of those 80% who watch porn are able to form relationships without expecting their girlfriends to humiliate themselves? Any of them?
“What American Dad is going to be able to pity his teenage daughter after she has been humiliated by her first crush, or care if his wife is feeling like the sex he feels entitled to is denigrating” – the overwhelming majority. That’s just my observation, I don’t have any conclusive studies to indicate either way. Do you?
“I wonder if that study means that only 20% of American Men are truly practicing Christians” – it isn’t only christians who don’t watch porn.
“Porn has also contributed a great deal to the abortion rate, because if you are using a woman for sex, and get her pregnant, it’s of course, quite humiliating for her to then go through with an abortion, and not because of social stigma, but because she has failed to live up to her role as a sex object, and this ‘mistake’ on her part” – I can’t say I agree, can you extrapolate as to why you make this claim?
“the more aware she is of the fact that abortion is a lie called “choice” – well that’s patently false.
Don’t get me wrong City, I find porn to be distasteful and denigrating – to all those involved. I just suspect your screed might be more opinion than supported facts.
Real-stupid-ity finds pornography to be ‘distasteful and denigrating’, but killing prenatal children is an acceptable practice.
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That might explain why abortionists are compelled to hoard the corpses of the children they kill. It distracts them from the ‘distasteful and denigrating’ practice of viewing pornography.
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The disconnect from reality is stunning, but the stupidity still remains.
And one day kentheburper2, you’ll recognize the differences between adults and fetuses.
“That might explain why abortionists are compelled to hoard the corpses of the children they kill. It distracts them from the ‘distasteful and denigrating’ practice of viewing pornography” – how many abortionists are there? How many hoard the remains of aborted fetuses? Are these the only ones who don’t view pornography? How do you know they don’t view pornography? Do all the ones who don’t hoard aborted fetuses view pornography? How do you know?
“The disconnect from reality is stunning, but the stupidity still remains” – an excellent summation of your imaginative little tirade.
Speaking of ‘disconnect’. Jennifer Lawrence ‘objectifies’ herself in a futile effort to prevent her boyfriend from viewing images of other women who have objectified themselves.
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When Jenny’s private stash of self produced pornography is published without her permission she takes unto herself the mantle of the violated maiden and claims she is the victim of a sex crime.
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“I think of a man and take away reason and accountability.”
Pray tell Real-stupidi-ity, to just what specie of adult and fetus are you referring?
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One day when you hear the ‘pop’ which will announce that your cranium has been liberated from the death grip of your sphincter you will recognize and acknowledge that no matter how young or how old you are and no matter where you are, your DNA will not have changed and you are no more, no less, human.
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Unless you can cite one example where two humans have reproduced anything other than a human.
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Your childish refusal to accept the obvious changes nothing and no one but you.
Heather. That is a good one … The devil in miss Jones! Very well done. Jenna Jameson wrote a great book about her life in the adult industry. She felt empowered by the life. Porn, like anything, is great in moderation. Watching porn with your significant other (or some girl you just met) can be quite fun indeed
Oh…go away, little troll!
Human will do for a start belcher, wouldn’t want to tax you too hard.
“One day when you hear the ‘pop’ which will announce that your cranium has been liberated from the death grip of your sphincter” – aren’t you such a sweet thing. So this ‘death grip’ thingie, that’s not coming along too well is it.
“you will recognize and acknowledge that no matter how young or how old you are and no matter where you are, your DNA will not have changed and you are no more, no less, human” – and yet our DNA does change over the years. Recognize and acknowledge that.
“Unless you can cite one example where two humans have reproduced anything other than a human” – and I might need to because? But to execute humans is just fine and dandy isn’t it?
“Your childish refusal to accept the obvious changes nothing and no one but you” – your childlike non sequiturs demonstrate how remote you are from the obvious. I don’t expect that’ll change anytime soon.
Reality says:
And one day kentheburper2, you’ll recognize the differences between adults and fetuses.
It is easy to tell the difference.
Fetuses are little adults who live in their mothers’ wombs.
Adults are big fetuses who have outgrown their mothers’ wombs.
“It is easy to tell the difference” you claim. And then you go and say that next bit. Pity.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised at that coming from someone who said “A fetus in the womb is as fully formed and organized as a newborn child, an adolescent, an adult, or an elderly person”
And what about “You would not refer to your adult-child as a “fetus,” which would be absurd” Del?
James Ashby = Jake. Don’t feed the trolls.
James Ashby: Heather. That is a good one … The devil in miss Jones! Very well done. Jenna Jameson wrote a great book about her life in the adult industry. She felt empowered by the life. Porn, like anything, is great in moderation. Watching porn with your significant other (or some girl you just met) can be quite fun indeed.
There are a lot of people that go pretty nutty over porn. Hmm, I guess you could take that two ways. :P
Porn is big, though. Sometimes we see laughable stuff like, “Porn is half the internet…” etc. While not quite that, it’s true that 10 to 15 percent of all internet searches are for porn. This figure has declined over time – in the earlier days of the internet, the percentage of men online was higher, and as more women have gotten on, the focus on porn sites has declined a little.
There is one webcam site that gets 32 million visitors a month, which is roughly 2.5% of all Internet users. That’s just one site…
Ed H: Our society is sick and corrupt.
Ed, people were saying this 15 years ago. And 60 years ago. And 150 years ago. And 500 years ago. They were saying it in the year 40 After Death, and in the year 40 Before Christ. They were saying it when Plato walked the earth. They were saying it in the time of the ancient Egyptians.
It’s part of the human condition – there are always some people bumming out about it.
CityOfAngels: A fact is that 80% of American males watch it on a regular basis.
I don’t doubt that. Men are “wired” differently than women, and for us, seeing things will affect us differently than for women, at times.
Some comments on this thread have crossed the line into sexual harassment and have been deleted.
It should really go without saying that we don’t allow this here, but apparently I do have to say it, thanks to the fact that we have pro-choicers here who just can’t control themselves. Sexual harassment is not funny, and it’s not a joke.
I know I am an old lady but even as a teen or young adult I would have dumped any so-called “boyfriend’ who said “prove you love me by sending me nudie pics”. My reply “I don’t need to prove I love you, idiot. Hit the road, Jack (name of an oldie hit record from back in the day).” You have got to be kidding? Really? Then your first argument he sends your nudie pic all over the internet, where you can never get it back and he can even blackmail you with it. Common sense just ain’t that common anymore. Remember this young people “you don’t have to prove your love to anyone who really matters”. God help us.
I just remembered that I had a friend who is single and about my age tell me a guy she thought was a family friend (not even a boyfriend) asked her to send him a nudie pic and she promptly told him to “go to hell” which is exactly where he is headed if he does not repent.