Tara Goldman Dec. 5th, 2013 Signature Argument Philosophy 1000 Signature Argument Is Hollywood too hypersexed?

Emzy Veazy the third (author of this article: Is Hollywood hypersexed? Your Say) says that it is acceptable that celebrities uses their bodies a sexual icons. Is this right? I want to give a strong counter argument that Veazy is not correct on this. There are too many if statements about Hollywood celebrities using their bodys to earn money and stay popular in the eyes of our nation. If I wear what these famous women are wearing then I will be popular. This thought is false in almost every aspect, you might not want to be popular because you wore Beyoncs lingerie. This type of popularity might give you the opposite type of fame you want. It might title you as something that you are not proud of being called: slut, or as easy, or even a corruption to society. In this paper I want to talk to you about feelings about Hollywood becoming too hypersexed and what it is doing to our world. First, I want to talk about how woman are being put on display as more of objects that as intellectual beings that can make well thought out decisions. Second, I want to talk about how many celebrities dont always do smart or moral things with the riches. First, women are being put on display because they have the ideal bodies that most women want to have. Glamour magazine asked more than 300 women (of all different shapes and sizes) about how they felt about their bodies. On average women have 13 negative thoughts about their bodies daily. There as a shocking number of women having confessed to having 35, 50, and sometimes 100 hateful thoughts about their bodies daily (Dreisbach). If society puts women with their beautiful size two bodies wearing lingerie for the whole world to see them we are putting them on display just like a manikin with not thoughts of their own. Just something that can model a clothing item etc. Women are

being put on display. We are not showing that our celebrities might have more desires than to entice sexual desires or to have others people hate their bodies because they cant achieve the body of a women who seems so successful. By having celebrities sell their bodies for sexual money this most often categorizes them into the object statement. If a women started a career in the pornography world she might have already influences others for the wrong reasons. There are loads of women out there that have had their lives corrupted form the very first porn shoot. Their lives took a different track, most of the time for the worst. Julie Andrews the beloved actress in Mary Poppins made it onto Complex Pop Cultures website for The 25 Grossest Nude scenes in Movies. Andrews flashed the world in the movie S.O.B in 1981 and made it to number 24 out of 25 of the grossest nude scenes in a movie. She has tried to make amends with society since then (Serafino). She was no longer the perfect and innocent singer starring in The sound of Music or Mary Poppins. This has happened over and over again that women are only seem as sex objects for the world to view. So, since these women are seen as objects that make money then what good have they done with all of the money? Second, money must be talked about since celebrities seem to make so much of it. What good has been done with these riches for our society? Time and time again we have seen famous people do silly things with their money, things that dont help better the economy. Things that sometimes harm others: drunk driving and being handed a get out of jail free card because they are celebrities and have the money to make bail. Or because they are celebrities that they are seen as more superior to others and dont always get the same amount of justice as other people who make average at places like McDonalds or Burger King. We are teaching the younger generations that if you have money you can do whatever you want to do. On June 8th, 2010 a judge ruled Lindsay Lohan in violation of her probation. He hiked her bail to $200,000 and issued a warrant for her arrest after her SCRAM ankle brace suspiciously lights up at an MTV Movie Awards after party. To no surprise the warrant was recalled after a bail bondsman covered her bond (Grossberg). Where does the idea of fair justice come in?

In conclusion, I dont believe that Veazy is correct in his thinking that society benefits from Hollywood being hypersexed. Many women are in fact not being helped out by this. Women are being put on display as object. Women are almost fighting against their rights that we are just as equal as males. Females are putting themselves in positions to be looked at as mere objects. Veazy is also incorrect when he says when women make money than they are helping the economy. This is false. Not every celebrity has done good with their money. A lot of these celebrities have done more harm to society by corrupting the youths minds, and even sometimes when they slide by consequences of our legal system because they can afford to make bail. I believe that Hollywood is too hypersexed.

Works Cited

Dreisbach , Shaun. "Shocking Body-Image News: 97% of Women Will Be Cruel to Their Bodies Today: Health & Fitness: glamour.com." Glamour. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Dec. 2013.

Grossberg, Josh. "Lindsay Lohan: A Timeline of All Her Arrests (and Boy, There Are a Lot of 'Em)." E! Online. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Dec. 2013.

Serafino, Jason. "24. Julie Andrews flashes the world, S.O.B. (1981) The 25 Grossest Nude Scenes In Movies | Complex." Complex.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Dec. 2013.

Veazy , Emzy. "Is Hollywood hypersexed? Your Say." USA TODAY: Latest World and US News USATODAY.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Dec. 2013.