Sexual Conquest

"It is descriptive: who does what to whom and gets away with it? (MacKinnon: Sexuality).  This quote clearly describes what I read in the Sexuality piece by Catharine A. MacKinnon.  Women are constantly looked upon in a sexual magnifying glass.  Women are seen as sexual objects and are judged on the level of the way they portray their sexuality.  Women fall into line from the extreme of having self-worth to participating in pornography.  These two ends of the spectrum force women to have to side with one end or play the safe side in the middle.  Wherever women fall into place is perfectly acceptable because all women should have the freedom to choose how they want to portray themselves.  Yet on the other hand it feels like women still have to try to meet the male standard in order to be accepted.  Because of this self-worth or pornography are measured on how much the woman succeeds based on male approval.  This freedom for women to choose is under the society of inequality.  Men are free to make all of the sexual conquests they choose while women are judged based on the amount of sexuality they demonstrate.

This inequality between men and women forces me to question why men are seen as conquers when they sleep with multiple women, while women are labeled as "hoes" when they do the same thing.  These men play into the labels of male superiority and domination while women are supposed to be passive and submissive.  So when a women sleeps around with multiple people why is she looked down upon?  This inequality continually limits women to falling into the closed door of the "proper" woman.  Using pornography as an example, women are seen as objects for sexual use where men desperately want to posses the woman.  Pornography is an extreme level of women being sexual objects, but is apparent in everyday life.  Women are constantly surveyed and analyzed based on their demonstration of sexuality.  This domination of sexuality allows for rape and sexual abuse against women.  Women are a target to be sexually abused and discriminated against.  From women being judged on their sexuality to being forced into sex, who gets to decide why women are victimized and why people get away with being the victimizer?