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Cameron Diaz: “Every Woman Wants to be Objectified — It’s Healthy”

5:48 pm, November 19th, 2012

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Cameron Diaz makes the case for why some women “want to be objectified” in an eyebrow-raising, yet candid interview with the Sunday Times.

“I think every woman does want to be objectified. There’s a little part of you at all times that hopes to be somewhat objectified, and I think it’s healthy,” the actress tells the paper.

Diaz notes that she personally finds scantily-clad photo shoots to be “empowering.”

She says, “I’m not some young girl with the photographer going, ‘Will you take your clothes off?’ I’m like [mimes stripping], ‘How does this look?’”

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“They’re like, ‘Today we’re not going to put anything other than bras and heels on you,’” Diaz continues, “and I’m like, ‘These heels are not high enough.’”

“I’m a woman, I know how to handle myself,” the What to Expect When You’re Expecting star adds.

Diaz explains, “I know what I feel comfortable doing and I know my sexuality.”

What do you think of the actress’ comments?

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  • http://twitter.com/ch33rylips Joanna ☂

    Yeah she’s an idiot.

  • Suzanne

    Yeah, looks like that attitude is really working out for you. I guess she doesn’t mind being the last girl standing alone.

  • dannehlicious

    That’s great, I love how women can be so comfortable with themselves.

  • peppermintulip

    I guess when your 40 and haven’t been able to keep a man that’s all you have to hold on to is being objectified.

  • Rose

    Sad. Sad thar children are parading in lingerie. Sad girls are trying to look like Barbie dolls. Sad women run around without their underwear, sad people look like plastic surgery zombies. Yes, by all means, objectify us.

  • Guest

    I think she has an ugly body she has too many muscles. She does nothing for me

  • GooglyMoogly

    I personally don’t want to be objectified and would like for my daughters to not be as well. She should only speak for herself, otherwise she sounds like a total idiot.
    She’s part of the reason tweens and teens feel the need to run around scantily clad so that boys will pay attention to them. What happened to having class and leaving something to the imagination? Self respect will take you farther in life than “Hey how do my boobs and ass look?”

  • Rose

    Your daughters are lucky.

  • Catherine

    Do you get what objectified means? It’s not being looked at sexually but being looked at exclusively in a sexual way and you just boiled down a woman’s worth to whether or not she can keep a man, which isn’t quite objectification, but pretty darn close. She is a very successful a-list actress who has been nominated for Academy Awards, is that not something to hold on to as well? How about the fact that she is blessed with many close friends? Or that she has committed her time to various charities?

  • Abigail

    She tries way to hard. What ever happened to growing old gracefully?

  • http://www.facebook.com/laurie.handforth Laurie Handforth

    she has never been nominated for an Academy Award – and what she is teaching girls is that being naked gets you attention – when what we should be teaching girls is to respect themselves enough so they don’t do stupid things like posting naked photos on facebook to get attention and ending up committing suicide because of the negative fallout from it.

  • dietie
  • Rez

    Your daughters are veryyyyy lucky indeed. I am young and my parents raised me with the same principle: not to let people obectify you cause you loose self respect and thus, other people respect too. People who have values always conduct a healthier life then people who are driven by tendencies and the wish to be acceptable to anyone

  • Rez

    Haven’t you heard: WOMANS ARE BEING LIBERATED, EMANCIPATED! This is the worst illusion brought by modern times! Consequences: generations without concience are being brought up! Feeling shame (which helps conserving a social and individual concience) and maintaining an attitude is no longer valued. I don’t sincerely know where are we headed with the moto:EVERYTHING IS ALLOWED AND NOTHING IS WRONG ANYMORE. EVERYTHING IS ACCEPTABLE NOW and all in the name of TOLERANCE. Creating and selling illusions is the biggest achievement of today’s sociaty.
    Ooops I think I overdid it with sharing! Sorry!

  • Rose

    as my grandson points out they are doing it with boys and men too. Suddenly we have over exaggerated muscles and tight clothing as in super heros and video games, all this emphasis on the body. And homosexual. Oh I am not supposed to mention that am I? But with the increased language perpetrating the television and the perpetual pandering on media, our children are noticing it bein promoted, not just accepted, but like you are not in style if you are not Bi, at least. Their words, not mine.

  • Rose

    We need more sharing like this. Women used to keep men in check. Not anymore. It’s a big free for all out there, and nobody is speaking up for morals. The media has done a good job of making us feel that we have to accept all behavior now and that if we don’t, there is something wrong with us. We can see at least some of us feel this is not the way to lead life and that conatantly sexually presenting, does not hold a male, but making him believe you lookup to him and makes him want to make you proud, and defensive of you. This is the greater power that women have, the ability to make them want to be better people .

  • Rez

    Absolutely ! I couldn’t agree more! has anyone noticed that people now with all the social network and everything are perpetuating to guard their language or not to have any kind of prejudices soooo basically not to use your judgement, not to have an opinion, not to use your mind – just do anything you want to do basically. Being very young myself I notice that people(girls) dress and party for the sake of boys, not to mention that they flirt like crazy with everyone and if you just happen to have a nice conversation with a person you just got to know, he think you are ready to hook up with him. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PEOPLE!! I don’t want to overshare, but I was in Rome and since it was a very intense program the one I was in, instead of the party I went to visit the city. A guy from Prague happen to be doing the same and we coupled since we where the only ones. I had a very nice time chatting and the conversation was flowing( his country, my country, being student, joking ect ) during the whole time. When we where to part each on his room, he leaned for a kiss, which I avoided completely confused. I was analising how did I gave him any impression that I wanted to kiss (he told me he had a gf), I found no fault (I don’t dress as trash, I don’t flirt and I don’t cling to ppl) and I couldn’t believe it. And it has happened a couple of times that guys already in a relationship pick at me having stated that they are in a relationship. …and I see girls doing the same when they are away from their bf like is the most normal thing and I freak

  • http://godsnotwheregodsnot.blogspot.com/ Tatarize

    How stupid. Somebody needs to explain to her the difference between being viewed as a sexy woman and being viewed as a vagina warmer with breasts. Wanting to be liked by other humans is something humans do. We have a rather deep human need for it. And there’s nothing wrong with attention for being sexually desirable. But, that’s not objectification. Objectification isn’t about caring about what anybody wants it’s treating people as objects. Not “that’s a sexy woman”, but “that’s something I’d like to fuck.” It’s a question of humanity and whether you qualify. There’s nothing wrong about loving yourself and liking attention, there’s something wrong with borrowing your breasts to sell beer, regardless if you are compensated for their use.

  • Catherine

    Laurie,
    My reply was to what peppermintulip said, not what Cameron said and you are right, Cameron wasn’t nominated for an Academy Award – I thought she was for Being John Malkovich, but it was just a Golden Globe (along with several other GG noms). You don’t have to post naked photos of yourself to be objectified, all women are to some extent whether they behave in a way asking to be objectified or not. To paraphrase Martin Luther King, I long for a day when women are judged for the content of their character more than their physical beauty. Peppermintulip’s response to Cameron was that women are judged by who they marry which is degrading the value of women, and it is that type of thinking that gets young girls to pose naked and sext message just as much as Cameron’s comments about desiring objectification, probably more so. Cameron meant all women want to feel attractive (as do men, frankly), but using the phrase “objectifying” was a very bad choice of words on Cameron’s part.

  • Rose

    I commiserate. It must be difficult to be young right now. Even I can extend my understanding towards your situation. It used to be a guy would not try to have sex till after the third date but now by the third they are hinting that, would you ever do a 3 some. So many girls completely lose themselves in trying to be desirable, they do anything, out of their heads. It used to be, males, so easily aroused, policed themselves against fraternization amongst themselves, but now if they do that they are charged with a hate crime.

  • rd

    she’s the reason some women are called sperm receptacles.

  • http://www.facebook.com/samanthastoriesend.bruette Samantha Storiesend Samburger

    I like to look at girls who “objectify” themselves. Someone has to do it.

  • Rose

    Than don’t you do it. Know the heart of a true woman is courageous and sweet. Treat us as such even when the woman herself demonstrates such poor behavior, as this woman has and it being taught to us. Do that for I would seek the gentleman in you as I would hope you see the lady in others. Let us be good examples, there are too many poor ones. We have serious work to do.

  • Rose

    She knows exactly what she was saying. I don’t think she needs a translator.

  • Holly

    I understand where she is coming from. Everyone, men and women alike, want to feel like a god/goddess to the opposite sex (or the same sex if that is what they prefer) but she used the word objectify, which was a bad word choice. We all want to feel sexy in our own way to the people who matter. I don’t think wanting to be objectified is “healthy” but but I do think wanting to feel sexy is natural.

  • http://www.facebook.com/sven.erlandson Sven Erlandson

    Diaz may be far more right than she realizes! As a therapist specializing in infidelity for over two decades, one of the most consistent themes I see in cheating women (of which there are a whole lot more nowadays; research indicating it rivals if not exceeds the number of men cheating!) is this sort of ‘wanting to be wanted’, to the point where it becomes a craving that drives women to do all sorts of maladaptive things! Of course, it’s always driven by a much deeper and more insidious core problem (mentioned below) that destroys not just female relationships with men, but, worse, with themselves.

    My latest book, “I Steal Wives: A serial adulterer reveals the REAL
    reasons more and more ‘happily married’ women are cheating” is a
    provocative look at this exact topic, specifically the explosive topic
    no one wants to talk about: the radical uptick in female infidelity,
    such that it now equals or exceeds that of men. The book dives into the
    real reasons underlying it all, and it isn’t the blather you hear on
    talk TV or read in magazines. As a therapist for over twenty years, the
    one pattern I’ve seen again and again is that all infidelity has at its
    deepest core the exact same cause: FEAR. Always, always, always.

    “I Steal Wives” is an intuitive, self-deprecating, salacious and
    provocative look at what’s really driving women, and how to insulate
    your marriage. It’s the first book ever written from the first-hand
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  • Lee

    And they put the blame on men always. :(

  • Lance Spencer

    If women didn’t want to be objectified why are they out here on facebook and twitter putting up bikini, booty, boob and other pics of them in sexually suggestive poses. The fact of the matter is the only people crying about sexual objectification are ugly women in the womens lib movement. Maybe if they took the flannel off and put on some make up they’d be considered beautiful. And men get objectified for their money, power and prestige yet nobody is crying about this? Why not?

  • Lance Spencer

    To tell you where we are going Google Alister Crowley and the saying “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law”.

  • Lance Spencer

    Women kept men in check? Wrong honey men kept women in check ie patriarchal society, men shamed whores, single mothers and all other kinds of women so that women cannot and will not think those things are ok. But not that being a slutty single mom, sexually liberated whore etc is acceptable women are running rampant popping out babies and going on slut walks.

  • blacklovebeefbrad1953

    As a black Canadian lad,60-as of July 6,OF COURSE I PROUDLY OBJECTIFY THE LADIES!!!!!!!(Girls,if you didn’t want us guys’ attention,you wouldn’t be-ALMOST LITERALLY-
    bouncing about in low-cut tops,sometimes-BREASTS(s) of all-bra-less!!!!)I compare hot girls to birds because of their tendency to (female) flock together,their “plumage,”i.e.,hair,broad shoulders and hips,fine big bottom,GREAT legs and the aforemen-
    tioned double-barreled chest (your bra,34C-42D,gals.)Because I’ve got boyish good looks,
    a muscular build-I’m 5’9″,200-205 lb. with 18-inch arms-and handsome randy older black cowboy stud appearance IN Western duds and ability to lay it down BUT GOOD OUT OF THEM,I’m frequently a lot of ladies’ eye candy and love bud desire.(I prefer buxom blondes and Latinas between 25 and 35.)

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