Binge Eating Disorders: A Case Study

In 2014 there was an online survey that questioned many women about sexual harassment. In a survey of 811 women, “Over 99 percent of the female respondents said they had experienced some form of street harassment (only three women said they had not). Examples of these gestures would be hip thrusting, hand motions that simulate sex acts, or gestures with mouth or tongue. Over 80% of women had been targets for sexually explicit comments”(Statistics – Stop Street Harassment Studies). Over the last 30 years objectification and sexualization in advertising, media, music videos, video games, and many other platforms have become a serious problem. What is sexual objectification? What does sexualizing mean? Sexual objectification is the act of treating

One of the few leading effects of sexualizing and objectifying is girls and women can pick up an eating disorder. A very common type of eating disorder is anorexia, which is a disorder that causes the person to to have excessive weight loss by not eating or drinking in risk to gaining weight. However there are eating disorders that cause the person to eat too much because they hate their body. This type of eating disorder is called Binge Eating Disorder (Types of Eating Disorders). As has been stated the reason for this type of eating disorder is because the being is shameful of their body so they “stress eat” because they feel like they cannot do anything to change their body so the person overeats causing obesity. In addition to eating disorders, girls likewise could obtain depression. With depression girls will lose their appetite, extremely hungry, and become sorrowful (Mayo Clinic). The last effect that someone being sexualized could gain would be anxiety. Anxiety causes problems with sleeping, nausea, and dizziness (What Are Anxiety Disorders). Mental health is becoming worse the more companies put out advertisements, the more sexualized music videos are distributed, and even more when they are being sexualized and judged by appearance by the people around these teenagers and women. The only way to stop anxiety, eating disorders, and depression for people who feel

They believe that it could also go into them wanting or feeling sexualized in the future.
Radical feminists view objectification as playing a central role in reducing women to what they refer to as the "sex class". While some feminists view mass media in societies that they argue are patriarchal to be objectifying, they often focus on pornography as playing an egregious role in habituating men to objectify women. Other feminists, particularly those identified with sex-positive feminism, take a different view of sexual objectification and see it as a problem when it is not counterbalanced by women's sense of their own sexual subjectivity (Sexual Objectification 1). Radical feminists and sex positive feminists both have very similar views on sexualizing women. A couple situations a radical feminist would not support would be an advertisement that is sexually explicit showing the anatomy of a women for no reason, a commercial that is showing suggestive sexual acts being performed, and women being popular on a social media just because they meet the standards of beautiful and show off their body more than an average women on social media would. However, sex pro feminist’s view points are slightly different. Sex pro feminists believe that it is okay for women to be sexualized if only men are being sexualized in the same advertisement. In one of Levi’s Jeans advertisements there was a shirtless man being undressed