- Herself - Associate Professor of Political Science, Occidental College: Women who are high self-objectifiers have lower political efficacy. Political efficacy is the idea that your voice matters in politics and that you can bring about change in politics. So if we have a whole generation of young people being raised where women's objectification is just par for the course, it's normal, it's okay, we have a whole generation of women who are less likely to run for office and less likely to vote.
- Herself - Filmmaker - Killing Us Softly, Author and Senior Scholar Wellesley Centers for Women: These images are part of a cultural climate in which women are seen as things, as objects. And turning a human being into a thing is almost always the first step toward justifying violence against that person.