women do not have to be "honest" about how others (fashion director, advertising, porn) choose to show them : it is the choice of these people to use women this way, in order to sell their products.
In a perfect world, women would not "willingly" do this kind of activities, if it was not for the money. As you said, some women are being paid to do these kind of stuff, "being paid", that is the deal, and it is an important one. Some women choose to enter the system and to use their beauty and attractiveness this way, that is right, but 1/they do it on their own behalf 2/they give some of their autonomy (and sometimes, anatomy), thus being partly "objectified", but I repeat they get the money in exchange, what they give need a compensation, because it costs them something.
And it is not because women "in general" are vapid, superficial, or whatever (well, some of them certainly are, but as some men can be). I bet that if men were offered a huge amount of money to do something like this, a lot of them would do it as well, even if it is morally questionable. Because in addition, it is certainly true that a "narcissistic factor" enters the equation : about being honest, who would say no, to the chance of being admired and desired, who would say that it is not appealing. It is illusory, it goes hand to hand with vanity, but it is appealing.
That being said, I do not think it's right : directors are just using the flaws and needs of human psychology (men or women) in order to make money, and they don't care what the consequences might be. To see women being treated like objects in fashion or porn industry , even if these very women chose to do it and have money in exchange, it has repercussion on other women, the ones who just try to be true to themselves and others : they should not have to pay the consequences of false representations seen in the entertainment industries, and bear the pressures induced by it. Because unfortunately, another important problem with "cultural products", is that some people have pain to make the difference between fictitious facts, and reality. They end up believing that the set-up organized by a very small film unit represents values that are representative of real life, or that real life should duplicate. But if the movie is made this way (=in adequacy to the viewer's desires) it is to induce the purchase of the product, nothing else. I am quite sure it generates frustration at the end, but it is another problem.(not the one of the industry, obviously)
Anyway right now I did not say anything "feminist" about "air doll" cause I did not see it, LoL.
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