A Quote by Jameela Jamil

Women's bodies have always been used as a spectacle and objectified.

Jameela Jamil

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Jameela Jamil
English - Celebrity
Born: February 25, 1986

People keep telling me, "You don't like boys!" And I'm saying, "Wow, no, it's just that you're not used to them being objectified in movies, but women are so often objectified in movies and we don't care."

Celine Sciamma

I'm so aware how often women's bodies are objectified on film.

Sarah Gavron

The roles I used to be cast for were typically objectified women, so I was always being shown or spoken about through the lens of the guy.

Alice Eve

Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights.

Martha Plimpton

I don't like how women's bodies are Page 3 news. I just don't think that's big news. Women's bodies are women's bodies, and that's that. And I love to see beautiful - the female form in great art and great photography.

Eliza Doolittle

Trans women, and women in general, have so many constraints placed on our bodies. As women, we are told not to show our bodies, and as trans people, we've been told not to exist.

Trace Lysette

It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

Lady Gaga

I've been constantly under male gaze. In our movies, women are constantly objectified.

Manisha Koirala

I used to get people criticizing me for drawing so many women with gorgeous idealized bodies, but I pointed out that I draw a lot of men with muscular bodies, washboard abs, and enormous wangs, and they never got criticized. So those criticisms have stopped.

Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept a secret by women in one very remote county in China for a thousand years. It's the only language that was invented and used by women to have been found anywhere in the world.

Lisa See

It should be self-evident that women have the right to make decisions about their own bodies. Yet throughout history, those in power - usually men - have tried to control women's bodies.

Isabella Lovin

Women are to be championed and revered, not objectified.

Paul Ryan

Fat bodies are used comically. I respect Rebel Wilson so much, and Melissa McCarthy. I love them both. But so often, I feel like fat female bodies are used as props.

Mary Lambert

Women are often only in the media to be victimised or objectified

Caroline Criado-Perez

We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

Alan Ball

You can't blame movies for embracing spectacle; filmmakers since D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. De Mille have loved spectacle, and spectacle is something that movies convey like no other medium, especially in a digital age.

Steve Erickson

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