With all those bedroom eyes, duckfaces and cleavages splattered all over Instagram, Facebook and other social media — not to mention Tinder — I bet you have been all wondering whether it’s a result of some sort of internalised misogyny or patriarchal objectification. Well, apparently the science says no:
Publicly displayed, sexualized depictions of women have proliferated, enabled by new communication technologies, including the internet and mobile devices.
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