Introduction Impossibly attractive and implausibly perfect models in adverts and in movies and on TV you are much more likely to see naked or half-naked women than men. But there seems to be a trend to objectify men too. Are there any positive points to it or is it creating self-absorbed people? Listen to the discussion. This week's questionOn British TV, in which decade was a completely naked man first seen? Was it… a) the 1940s b) the 1950s c) the 1960s Listen to the programme to find out the answer. Vocabularyobjectification
the noun for when we reduce a human being to an object, we don't think of them as a real person anymore role model
someone whose behaviour is a good example that others want to copy aspire to
aim to be, hope to achieve detrimental
an adjective for something that is bad for you, something that has a negative effect narcissism
the term for someone who is so obsessed with their own body and life that they don't care about anyone else self-conscious (about their body)
someone embarrassed about their body losing confidence in themselves as a result Transcript Note: This is not a word for word transcript |