A Summary Of Galadriel And Eowyn

The first factor she believes has influence on the body image of black women and young girls is the celebrities shown in the media. In her essay, she mentions celebrities within black culture that are shown in the media as beauty ideals. Her examples included actresses, musicians, and models who are thin. There are also TV shows and ads that are shown to consumers. She gives an example of a show called “The Parkers” which follows a woman with a full-figured body. The show portrays her as a loud, ghetto woman who is constantly denied by a black college professor. The man constantly squirms away from her and goes after women with thin body figures.

While participation of women in sports has increased, the media representation of women in sports remains problematic. Even the most talented elite female athletes like Michelle Kwan and Monica Seles are portrayed in a sexual fashion, as a way of deemphasizing their athleticism and neutralizing any possible threat they might seem to pose to male viewers. Very few male athletes are portrayed in such an objectified manner; they are portrayed as competitors first and foremost, not as personalities. Also, the media coverage of athletes is disproportionately focused on male athletes. The coverage of female athletes tends to stress individualized female sports where women can be sexualized like tennis and figure skating, versus competitive team sports like basketball and soccer.

Jones, A., & Greer, J. (2011). You don't look like an athlete: The effects of feminine appearance on audience perceptions of female athletes and women's sports. Journal of Sport Behavior, 34(4), 358.

In the ten years since Cranmer et al. (2006) wrote this article, progress toward better research on Black female athletes has languished. The authors expressed great concern that many sexualized images of female athletes come from magazines; a ubiquitous medium consumed with little critical thought or challenge. This creates an environment that perpetuates the sexualization of Black women’s bodies as White men’s pleasure objects (Cranmer et al., 2006; Mowatt et al., 2013). The research fails to answer the question of how the sexualization of Black female athletes in media affects Black female student-athletes.

In order to portray female athlete as a commodity, the media decreases the athletes’ confidence. They give an idea that the athletes are merely “second-class citizens, if not objects” (Liang, Inquiries 2011, vol.3). An athlete must use her body to the demands of the media and public which means that she is not true to her identity. The media’s sexualisation of female athletes takes away their self-esteem and individuality from sports.

According to Laing, “The sexualization of female athletes reduces their self-esteem and identity by dehumanizing and pressuring them into an unhealthy obsession with body image” (page: 3). This leads to the media making women self-conscious about their bodies. Athletes often hear people say of other athletes, “She is too big, she’s not muscular enough or she is too skinny about female athletes.” Because of the way in which the media portrays a particular set of females, all females tend to strive for this “perfect physique”. This can lead to serve cases like dissatisfaction with their appearance and eating disorders. Some may argue that women like the sexualized manner in which they media portrays them because it increases their self-esteem

Gender stereotyping in sports media is something we see everyday in magazines and on TV. Since sports were invented, males have dominated one of Canada’s largest pastimes. Reasons for this being physicality and strength, but as time progressed women began to become more involved in the culture of sport. Today there is almost an equal amount of women participating in sports as man, yet women are still not being represented with the same approach as men. About a month ago I found a video online that followed a sports reporter who was trying to make a point about gender stereotyping within sports media. He would interview professional male athletes but rather than ask them the typical interview questions we see in male sports, such as “has your workout routine changed since…” but rather asked them questions that are typically related to female athlete interviews such as one that was asked to swimmer Michael Phelps “Shaving your body hair gives you an edge in the pool, but how about your love life”, or “any comments about reports about your girlish figure”. At the end of the video they show real women athletes being asked these types of questions in real interviews. The men’s reactions of embarrassment to disgust vs. the women’s reactions of showing no surprise to being asked these derogatory questions, says it all. It is no surprise that the sexualization of female athletes is something all too common in sports media. We’ll be looking into the idea of sexualisation in

After reading our assigned transcripts, I have drawn a similarity in topics such as Barbie, Miss America pageant, and Marilyn Monroe. The underlying message which I found common in all readings were the importance of a women’s self-image. From the very beginning, Miss America pageants in the 1920’s based their winner primarily on their personal appearance. As the years went on, gender stereotyping became more frequent. In television ads that were running during the 1950’s had shown women as the “perfect “package.

Through the media society puts out high standards and expectation on women to adhere to what they say is beautiful. Making women judge mental and self consciousness about themselves and even judging other woman in a split second. In the book Mrs. Breedlove speaks on the affect the movies had on her,”She was never able, after her education in the movies, to look at a face and not assign it with some category in the scale of absolute beauty, and the scale was one she absorbed in full from the silver screen” (122). This explains how the media can cause society to be judgmental among their peer and categorize them as either beautiful or ugly. Giving society room to isolate and antagonize the ugly and adore and idolize the beautiful.

In sports there is huge gender inequality in the media with women athletes often only receiving attention for having good looks or the best body, rather than their athletic abilities. Men, however, don’t receive this attention and people only focus on their athletic prowess. This report will review and analyse two examples of how the media portrays different genders in accordance with the following question: “How does the media portray men and women in sport?

Our current oversexualised society demonstrates the relevance of this theme as these same ridiculous gender roles are still apparent. Indeed, an article that appeared on Sportnet exemplifies current gender stereotypes and expectations pertaining to the over-sexualisation of females for ‘entertainment,’ “An increased focus has been placed on the physical attributes of female athletes” (Borrie, 2000). This statement demonstrates how sports women are being forced to wear next to nothing to be considered worthy of media coverage. This absurd notion clearly demonstrates the belief in our society that the worth of a woman is based on her sex appeal. Indeed, the lesson Atticus Finch teaches his daughter about being herself is so vitally important.

The Lord of the Rings book series. She is a prime example of a modern epic hero whose heroism also stems from her qualities of willfulness, strength, and loyalty. Eowyn is an incredibly willful character whose willfulness in pursuit of battle is similar to Beowulf’s. Despite the entreaties of King Theoden and Aragorn, Eowyn disguises herself as a man and joins the Battle of Pelennor Fields. In comparison, Beowulf willfully seeks out honor and glory, though with the blessings of his leaders, which leads him to aid King Hrothgar.

Sports marketer Richard Armato said, “If you want to be successful as a woman who is an athlete, sex appeal has to be part of the equation” (Ewing & Grady, as cited in Hull et al., 2015, p.108). Some women athletes took this as an advantage and used their sex appeal to lure attention to certain sports. Brooks saw this as a disadvantage, because females were not recognized for their accomplishments but their appearance (as cited in Hull et, al., 2015, p.109). Media plays the main role in how athletes are portrayed using frames, Entman defines frames as highlighting selected information, to make it more noticeable to the audience (as cited in Hull, et al., 2015 p. 109). When it comes to the media, men and women are portrayed differently, majority of women in fitness magazines were depicted as passive in their photo shoots rather than active (opposite then men) (Hardin & Walsdorf, as cited in Hull et al., 2015, p.

J.R.R. Tolkien’s works have been analysed for decades and have often been criticised for the lack of female characters. Arguably his most cherished publications, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, in particular has been condemned for the passivity of his relatively few female characters. Having said that however, throughout the three books, there are a number of female characters who combat the stereotypical role of women and subvert the norm of submission to a patriarchal authority. Arwen, Éowyn and Galadriel in The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return

This excerpt shows how more emphasis is put on women’s appearance and its keep up, and also shows the negative connotation of this prettiness; it is associated with shallowness. Not only is there an assumption that women spend much of their time on their appearance, but also there is the connected fact that others pay more attention to their appearance than their other character traits. This is still a reality of today as can be seen on the red carpet. Female celebrities have a whole industry devoted to making them look fashionable and pretty for events. The focus of these events becomes what they’re wearing rather than their work as actresses and singers.