Dr. Kat Counseling & Coaching

From Joey’s flirty one-liners in Friends to Disney princesses trading agency for beauty, our media has quietly groomed us to accept objectification as normal. This essay unpacks how sitcoms, family films, and pornography form a continuum that shapes gender roles, conditions the brain, and convinces us that ‘boys will be boys’ and porn is inevitable. Drawing on neuroscience, film theory, and philosophy, it shows how awakening from these scripts is like leaving a cult or steppi