My thoughts on this.
Women have been objectified since the dawn of civilization, taught to develop certain attributes in themselves in order to gain the protection of men, when they were no longer allowed access to the full rights of humanity,
which some may view as a primitive state, such as the right to provide for themselves and defend themselves.
Women are finally gaining back some of what was lost thousands of years ago, and there are those who are going to feel threatened by that, especially those that still feel a need to be superior to others, and when they are the most afraid of this, feeling cornered, they will strike out the fiercest.
This may not be in a direct violent manner, but I think I sense this being strongly presented in modern youth driven American culture.
In our music, you can definitely hear a violent and sexist tone being directed at women, which is not just done by men. Women endorse this in song.
Then on the other hand, the religious right is firmly telling women their place.
There are women who are content to live this way, fine, as long as you can afford it, good for you, glad you're happy.
And we still have the madonna vs. the whore attitudes. Women use slurs to insult members of their own gender, reinforcing sexual mores of women based on gender and the way men view women sexually.
And finally, the visual media. They're a lot of help to plastic surgeons nationwide, but certainly not adolescents self-images. Here again we have women reinforcing an ideal.
Women simply have to be who they are, and not what everyone out there says.