Women's Magazines Objectify Women Just as Much as Men's Magazines Do

Noah Berlatsky - The Atlantic

"Men's magazines are mostly based around heavily eroticised images of women. And women's magazines are also based around heavily eroticised images of women."

"Alex Bilmes.." (Journalist, Editor of Esquire UK)  "..admitted that the women in the men's magazines were objectified."

"We provide pictures of girls in the same way we provide picture of cool cars. It is ornamental. Women's magazines do the same thing." - Placing a woman and a car within the same category represents her as an object.

Alex bilmes "went on to argue that women's magazines enforce more rigid and damaging beauty standards."

"The reason images in men's magazines often look like images in women's magazines is that, despite the different audiences, they are both doing more or less the same thing" -- "They are making women sexual objects, and serving them up to satisfy, or more likely provoke, the desires of their readers."

Men's magazines are "telling men that female bodies are objects to be used for their enjoyment."

"The fact that women are assumed to be the objects, not just in men's magazines, but in women's as well, indicates just how prevalent, and how constricting, gender expectations can be."