When a young child begins to talk, naming the things he sees around him, it is because he has seen his parents do it. As they become teenagers, they name things based on what they have heard from their friends and social media. This pattern continues into adulthood. How we identify things reflects the progression of understanding art that represents women, as explored in John Berger's Ways of Seeing. In the third chapter she presents the idea that women have been portrayed in art since the beginning and how this transcends modern times. Her main points concern the representation of women throughout the centuries and the effects it has had on our view of women not only in paintings, but as human beings in society. Women's ideas are contradictory because they are facilitated by men and how they view women. Berger talks about this concept, and much more, in chapter three of Ways of Seeing. Even today, despite many debates, we live in a patriarchal society: we live in a world governed by men and their thoughts, feelings and ideals. Women are an important part of a man's life and standards and inferences are made about them. Berger explains man's vision of his counterpart through art. The earliest depiction of nudity is in the art surrounding the biblical story of Adam and Eve. In the tale, Eve is depicted as a temptress and because of her rebellion against God; she is an inferior being. This is what started the prejudice against the female race. Discrimination reflected in society by the roles assigned to women around the world. They are objects owned by men. Women are expected to clean, cook, bake and please their men in every way possible. They have no jobs; their job is to obey and worship their husbands. Women are passive members of the art, so they become… the medium of paper… floating, a tiny piece of something much larger. In retrospect, women's vanity stems from man's vain tendency to believe that the only reason women were created is for the pleasure of men. Simply put, Ways of Seeing by Jon Berger discusses how humans see the world and does so through the lens of art, since he is an art historian. Specifically, in chapter three, she brings to attention how the representation of women in art and in the world depends on the male eye and its ideals. Women have been oppressed in their sense of self because men dictate what they prefer in a woman. Even nowadays, a woman's self-esteem depends on the acceptance of men. Her only way to make her way in the world is to impress men with hypersexual and/or submissive tactics because that tradition has been drilled into all of our brains since the days of Adam and Eve..