I can understand women making themselves attractive-ie pleasing to the eyes- but these days even young girls present themselves as nothing more than walking vaginas, ready and willing to be used-then discarded like Kleenex. Sex has become a valueless commodity instead of what it was ordained to be. Women certainly don’t have to be “wooed and won” anymore, they present themselves as there for the taking, whether that’s what they intended or not.
I was a little shocked when I watched television programming aimed at pre-teens. It’s all about sex. There’s incredible pressure for kids to “match up” in grade school and any girl who is worth anything MUST have a boyfriend or two. This carries right on up through high school where going to the prom with somebody, anybody is a MUST and then into young adulthood where programs like Sex in the City are somehow about “liberation”. Women really haven’t “come a long way baby” and in many ways they’ve regressed.
And somewhat related are the different cultural norms with respect to women. Since we tossed the melting pot in favor of the diversity patchwork quilt, the objectification of women in other cultures is now not to be questioned and in many cases “celebrated”.