While some feminists view mass media in general to be objectifying, they often focus on pornography as playing an egregious role in habituating men to objectify women.

Though some early feminists disagreed, and viewed Stanton's proposal as scandalous, Mott stated "her great faith in Elizabeth Stanton's quick instinct & clear insight in all appertaining to women's rights."

Because of this, many feminists view sexual orientation as a political issue and not merely a matter of individual sexual choice or preference.

Second-wave feminists viewed popular culture as sexist, and created pop culture of their own to counteract this.

Ms. Stimpson said earlier feminists viewed Shakespeare as "nicer" to women, especially in the comedies, than other playwrights.

Many transgender feminists, however, viewed themselves as contributing positively to feminism by questioning and subverting gender norms.

These feminists view statutory rape laws as more controlling than protective - and of course part of the law's historic role was protecting the female's chastity as valuable property".

Many feminists and governmental officials view it as an illustration of misogynist violence committed against women.

Nineteenth-century feminists had viewed this as an impediment to women's employment and as an extension of a legal framework that denied adult women the freedom to contract.

Some Marxists and feminists view marriage of woman and man as analogous to the employment relationship in a capitalist society.