Feminism Final 100% PASSED

What is colorism? - differential treatment based on skin tone that generally manifests itself as a preference for lighter colored skin -a prejudice that continues to exist not only among blacks but also among many POC and whites What does it mean to say someone/something is exoticized? - viewed as exotic, foreign, or unusual in an interesting way -women outside the racial norm have been exoticized in 2 ways: grotesquely sexual or sexually inviting and seductively mysterious Objectification vs Commodification - Objectification: seeing or treating a person, usually a woman, as an object Commodification: the act of turning someone or something into or treating something or someone as an object to be bought, sold, or traded What is the concept of the Male Gaze? And what are the implication? - Even when women are the surveyors, this looking is done from the perspective of the ideal meal viewer, meaning that women survey themselves to determine how men would view them Questioning who certain things are done for, when we have these beauty norms, or sexualization, who is the audience? b/c of that the way in which women are portrayed is in relation to the audience What is embodiement? - The way our bodies are and interact with the world to create social meaning -Although the meaning of our gender and sexualities are social constructed, we do have these physical bodies that are not abstract intersections between social constructions and the physical like reproductive rights