Object

Becca White

This morning, I woke to yet another man on a podcast claiming women should be stay-at-home wives to please men just what you want to hear at 8am. On my short walk to university, I was stared at twice and catcalled once objectified once every third of a mile. To them, I am an object (noun); to me, they are the reason I object (verb).

The digital age allows for constant communication, often amplifying sexist rhetoric that spills from online spaces into real life. 

Blaming women for men’s frustrations has become a trend, emboldening many to express misogyny without consequence. Sexism is everywhere subtle, persistent, and always one iPhone away.

These images aren’t posed; they’re responses, spontaneous yet deliberate, capturing the quiet exhaustion of living in a culture where we were told we’d won the gender battle, but the war still rages on.