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Which is better? Which is progress?

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Miss America Says Farewell To Its Swimsuit Competition, Embracing 'Whole New Era'
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...-whole-new-era

Women Are Not Sex Objects, And They Need To Stop Seeing Themselves That Way
https://thoughtcatalog.com/miya-yama...lves-that-way/

Female self-objectification is a direct consequence of societal sexual objectification of women. Perceiving ourselves as sexual objects leads us to develop self-consciousness, or the habitual monitoring of how our body appears outwardly. Internalizing our society’s sexual objectification practices and engaging in habitual body monitoring creates a disturbance in our consciousness. This pervades our emotional, attentional and motivational states.

In her 2013 TED Talk exploring the harmful impact of sexual objectification, Caroline Heldman noted that the average woman engages in habitual body monitoring every 30 seconds. According to Heldman, the more we as women internalize sexual objectification by viewing ourselves as sex objects, the higher our rates of the following are:

• Depression
• Body imagine issues and eating disorders
• Body-shaming
• Depressed cognitive functioning (Habitual body monitoring takes away time from cognitive functioning.)
• Sexual dysfunction (We impede our own sexual pleasure and enjoyment by engaging in “spectatoring” during sexual activity)
• Decreases our self-esteem
• Decreases our academic grades
• Decreases our political efficacy (the belief that we have a voice in politics)
• Decreases our ability to build rapport and make connections with other women as we engage in female competition

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A Feminist's Argument On How Sex Work Can Benefit Women
http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/arti...-benefit-women

5 Promiscuous Things Women Do That Are Actually Empowering
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...wome_b_8150260

1. Send that scandalous selfie

We’ve all been there. There are those days when you look damn good and you want the men in your snapchat list to know that. I know it’s hard to feel comfortable taking a promiscuous photo let alone a naked photo. Do not let society tell you that sending this is slutty or that you’re being sexualized. Instead, remind yourself that you are a sexy, confident woman and you are proud of your body and of course, those snapchats! You get to set the timer and you have the ultimate power. There is nothing more satisfying than feeling confident and sending that photo knowing that he will be thinking about you.