Hollywood really could do better than casting Melissa McCarthy in a few funny but completely de-sexualized roles.
Clothing was coded as sexualizing if it revealed or emphasized a sexualized body part (e.g., chest, waist, buttocks, and legs), had sexy characteristics (e.g., slinky fabric), or had sexualized writing on it.
He starred in a leading role in the highly sexualized erotic thriller Color of Night (1994): another box office failure, it was savaged by critics but did well in the home video market and became one of the Top 20 most-rented films in the United States in 1995.
In fact, Luke Cage's character is sexualized a lot more than Krysten's.
The character is also highly sexualized.
When women are featured in speaking roles, they are more likely than men to be sexualized on screen.
The WWE does have women wrestlers, who are typically strong and sculpted athletes -- even if their primary objective is to rip other women wrestlers' clothes off in what amount to highly sexualized "catfights". But until recently, most women in the WWE played roles, such as wrestlers' girlfriends, where their character was set up to be ridiculed, sexually harassed, and mock raped.
The actor and political activist, known for her roles in such films as Divergent and Double Jeopardy, said the torrent of highly sexualized and gender-based attacks is an all-too-common outgrowth of social media, which increasingly has become a platform that incubates and normalizes misogyny.
Take, for example, Robin Thicke's wildly popular video for "Blurred Lines". The women in that video may not have been twerking, but the roles they were put in and the acts they were engaged in were no less sexualized.
From her "Femme Maison (Woman House)" paintings created circa 1946-47, in which the bodies of nude women are forcefully squished into the confining spaces of a home, to her 1968 sculpture, "Janus Fleuri," a piece curiously sexualized if not for its inclusion of imagery that resembles both male and female genitalia, themes of femininity and gender roles reared their heads.
