Females' Bodies Are Dead

What I found to be most interesting and most depressing from this weeks discussions and readings is that there isn't really a person in a woman's body.  It is simply just a body and that is all she is.  All that matters is if her body can be considered perfect or if it can sell a product.  For example, in the article Decoding Victoria's Secret: The Marketing of Sexual Beauty and Ambivalence by Marie D. Smith one of the assumptions that a Victoria Secret ad is based off of is that a woman's physical beauty can sell any product.  The article goes on to say "...men first respond to women as a physical object and later as a person."  In the video Killing Us Softly Four Kilbourne describes the dehumanization of women through media and society.  It is no surprise that most women hate their bodies and become frustrated with themselves and that we as a society enjoy to watch violence to human bodies on television (as described in Why Don't We Like The Human Body by Barbara Ehrenreich).  Especially violence to a woman's body.  This way of thinking has a negative impact on the way our society functions.  Women shy away from calling themselves beautiful because of body image.  It seems that a woman can only have a beautiful body but there is no such thing as a beautiful person.  Popular culture and the media are filled with only perfect examples of bodies.  Without a beautiful, perfect body, what do women have to offer?  This seems to be the shallow yet popular way of thinking.  There is no person inside the female body.  There is only a body.