McKenna

“In a different lab study, researchers found that compared to men assigned to play Pac-Man or The Sims, those who spent twenty-five minutes playing a sexualized video game called Leisure Suit Larry later rated sexual harassment of women as more acceptable.18 Men in the Leisure Suit condition were also quicker to identify words like slut, whore, and bitch in a word-identification task, suggesting that the objectifying imagery in the game primed them to think of women in these ways.”
― Renee Engeln, Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women—and Its Impact on Health and Happiness

“The more easily identifiable you are as a woman, the more you will be objectified. The more you are objectified, the more your body will begin to feel like a performance piece instead of the home in which you live.”
― Renee Engeln, Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women—and Its Impact on Health and Happiness

“It is no coincidence that when women say things men don’t like, the response is often not a critique of their ideas, but a critique of their appearance. This is the logical outcome of seeing women as objects instead of as human beings.”
― Renee Engeln, Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women—and Its Impact on Health and Happiness

“Seeing yourself accurately represented, however, is a reminder that you and yours are not a side plot to a grander narrative. You are the narrative, the main characters for whom the sun rises.”
― Dipo Faloyin, Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent