As a girl, I'm irritated by sexualization of people in ads/movies/games etc. in general but not because of any "boo hoo it's sexist" reason. I'm irritated by it simply because putting a bunch of half-naked people in your product is a cheap and easy way to get attention without really putting any substance in it at all.
I imagine it like this: remember the terrible poster presentations you had to do in elementary school, when you and your group made a big poster with some text about a certain topic you had researched? Sexualization is like writing down only three sentences about the topic and then covering the entire paper with glitter. When you present it, all the kids are gonna be like "yay glitter!" but the teacher, a person with critical thinking, is just gonna see through it and give a better grade to a poster with a lot of interesting info. That's how I see it, anyway. It's not a perfect analogy but you see what I mean, right?
I understand why it might be frustrating to women when they see ads the target some product to sell too many sold by scantly clad women. But at the target women also usually feature scantily clad women. You have the power to boycott that stuff if it really offends you. Also I see
I imagine it like this: remember the terrible poster presentations you had to do in elementary school, when you and your group made a big poster with some text about a certain topic you had researched? Sexualization is like writing down only three sentences about the topic and then covering the entire paper with glitter. When you present it, all the kids are gonna be like "yay glitter!" but the teacher, a person with critical thinking, is just gonna see through it and give a better grade to a poster with a lot of interesting info. That's how I see it, anyway. It's not a perfect analogy but you see what I mean, right?