Degradation of Women: Introduction

    As a disclaimer, it is essential to recognize that degradation of women has already existed before social media became popular. Instead, social media made degradation of women more noticeable and visible.

   The first essential layer of degradation of women on social media is the ideal image of a women social media endorses and promotes.

    On social media, the photos of women expresses the lack of clothes, the appeal of looking sexy, and the desire of attracting men's attention. Because of social media, an average teenager desperately seeks likes for their photos to uplift their self esteem. Social media became so ingrained in people's lives that if a person gets a low amount of likes, despite how beautiful they look, they will still delete the post. This is due to the idea of not meeting men's expectations. After realizing that a smile is not enough to get men to like them, that is when some women start to feel obligated to take selfies that are more revealing than usual. Because of this, this start a trend. Women that are receiving likes for their smiles realize that other females that are more revealing is getting more attention than them. This inspires them to join the trend, and become followers. Now, women are obligated to reveal more skin to be considered sexy.  Before, a smile was all that matters. Now, it is about physical attraction. So, the females that are not trying to fit into society's expectations are deemed as an oddity. Who is to blame for this mindset? Social media. It is despicable. This mindset is only hazardous to the females' perception of what is beautiful and causes men to treat and view women lower than what they are. Because of these images, men view women as sex objects. But can you blame the men if the women are posing in photos with barely any coverage? Can the women be blamed for being oblivious of their actions and not realizing that the reason why men treat women the way they do now is because of their photos welcoming that type of behavior?

  As a male, of course we find photos like this attractive. If a survey was conducted, I am very confident an overwhelming amount will agree with me. On the other hand, how upsetting this is that in order to get other males' attention, women must dress like sex objects. This is unacceptable.  As crazy as it sounds, women actually used to dress like this in the past:

   Major difference right? Her legs are covered, her arms are covered, her torso are covered and even her hands are covered. This is a major transition from the past to current day. Social media takes huge responsibility for this transition. Degrading of women is subliminally on social media. People will not recognize it due to the fact that it has become so normal. However, if people knew the definition of it, which is: treating them like sex objects, then people will realize that these photos only portrays that.

  In conclusion, this is only one layer of degradation of women. There are psychological problems that comes with degrading of women, and more problems. Something must be done. It is time to restore our values again.