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Feminist scholars say that the objectification of women involves the act of disregarding the personal and intellectual abilities and capabilities of a female ; and reducing a woman's worth or role in society to that of an instrument for the sexual pleasure that she can produce in the mind of another.

Although opinions differ as to which situations are objectionable, some feminists see objectification of women taking place in the sexually oriented depictions of women in advertising and media, women being portrayed as weak or submissive through pornography, images in more mainstream media such as advertising and art, stripping and prostitution, men brazenly evaluating or judging women sexually or aesthetically in public spaces, and the presumed need for cosmetic surgery, particularly breast enlargement and labiaplasty.