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The trauma of objectification

Objectification is a form of relational trauma that is often overlooked in therapy. Instead of a full person with their own ...
"Your movie made me physically sick," one audience member told Gary Hustwit (left), the director of Objectified, the eagerly anticipated film about industrial design, last night at a screening in New ...
Sexual objectification can bring in a lot of dollars — and a lot of backlash. Women hate when Axe does it. We hated it when Roxy did it. So why don't we hate when luxury brands do it? According to a ...
If you've ever been objectified, you know that it doesn't feel great. For me, it brings on a queasy mix of shame and long-burning anger when my humanity is denied in this way. But what if there's more ...
A new study published in the Journal of Positive Psychology explores how feeling and showing gratitude can make people feel less used and objectified. “Objectification causes severe consequences, ...
Women in the media have often been trivialised by being called distasteful names and referred to as a cheez (thing). While some may shrug off such acts as harmless, they connote a deeper, stinging ...
When feminists decry the objectification of women, most people immediately think of the images that saturate our magazines, movies, adverts and the Internet, of women in varying stages of undress, ...