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One of the results of the ever-growing ease in sharing opinions with others is a long-lasting debate as people try to endlessly convince the other side that fan fiction is either authentic literature or merely the inappropriate fantasies of pre-teens. One medium this discussion has appeared in is the blogging platform tumblr.com, a place where people of all ages can go to meet people with similar interests and mindsets. Naturally, this can lead to long, heated debates between users, or open-ended posts offering one's thoughts on the issue. One such post is “On Fanfiction,” where Tumblr user shadesofmauve claims that as long as a story has an emotional effect on its reader, it is valid literature.

The documentary Miss Representation shines a light on the overwhelming impact the male dominated media has on the development of females. Women cannot grow up emotionally happy in our culture due to the overwhelming pressure they are given. As girls grow up and become women they are constantly being judged by those around them and are given a high standard compared to their male counterparts because of the media. Being strong, smart, and accomplished isn’t important as being beautiful and skinny. Today in America you are seen physically and not intellectually. With the media portrayal of women as sexual objects has come with severe consequences. According to the video fifty-three percent of 13-year-old girls are unhappy with their bodies

Advertising executives argue that the images they flagrantly display are only to catch people’s attention, and there is no deep underlying message in them. However, studies done on the effects of sexual images in the media on young women prove otherwise. According to a study done by The University of Texas, “girls with higher levels of ‘interalized sexualiztion’ earned lower grades in school and scored lower on standardized tests than their peers.” Advertising executives claim to be “playing to their audience,” but are they conditioning their young audience to think that this sexulization is normal? In Women and Media: A Critical Introduction the authors claim that the media is “deliberately structured to produce a male gaze that makes voyeurs of us all.” Over sensationalizing womens bodies takes women’s power from them and gleefully

Sometimes it also all over the internet, T.V shows, music lyrics,etc. Renee, a new teen blogger talks about how media has degraded women, and how much it has changed from old hits. Renee states “The media, both print and electronic, plays a significant role in the negative portrayal of women, through the exploitation of women’s sexuality in music videos, magazines and movies, solely to promote and sell products in order to make money by the expense of these women, who are consequently transformed by the media into sex objects, which also influences how these women are portrayed and how they depict themselves”. Not only does America promote businesses and men to see women as simple sex objects, but also to make women feel that they ARE only sex objects, and that is all they can

The author points toward the definition of sexualization by borrowing APA’s description stating ,” In 2010, the APA released a report on the sexualization of girls, which it described as portraying a girl's value as coming primarily from her sexual appeal.” and further adds to show where it’s found rampant, and the damage that is seemly spread, “It found increased sexualization in magazines, by marketers, in music lyrics, and on television – a phenomenon that includes "harm to the sexualized individuals themselves, to their interpersonal relationships, and to society." One of the biggest markets for sexualization is on the internet, the self-evident point made by the author saying, “Children often come across Internet pornography unintentionally:University of New Hampshire researchers found in 2005 that one-third of Internet users ages 10 to 17 were exposed to unwanted sexual material, and a London School of Economics study in 2004 found that 60 percent of children who use the Internet regularly come into contact with pornography.” Although they may be facts and research statistics, the article how a powerful pathos appeal by the startling realization of how easily exposed children are to pornography. The article shows how dangerous this phenomon is, however not without a

On all platforms of media women, and even young girls are oversexualized, which leads to men viewing women as no more than breasts, vaginas, and legs or any other body part men prefer. Even in current television shows, movies, comic books, and advertisements, women are still depicted as sexual objects. Everyday billboards portray women in a suggestive manner for people of all ages to see. The over-sexualization of women's bodies causes girls to have little confidence and causes boys to believe that girls are only sexual objects for their enjoyment. Girls cannot be blamed for their sexualization; they are just emulating what they see in the media.

An average 6-11 year old watched 22 hours of TV a week and a combined average of 28 hours a week is spent on multiple media outlets. A tremendous climb of sexual content on TV has been occurring since the 1970’s; currently 70 percent of all TV programming includes sexual material increasing to 77 percent on prime time TV. Around 30 percent of the most watched child and teen programs contain sexual language, body attractiveness, and objectification of women’s bodies (Starr, 2012). The media outlets display popular culture that scream unhealthy messages to girls, burying healthy images instilled by parents that might be trying to break through. Girls are exposed to the messages so frequently that they cannot help but to absorb them and crave to become like the popular images. This leads to unhealthy values, attitudes, and thoughts held about oneself and

In the US, hyper-sexualized images of women dominate the advertising campaigns of Fortune 500 companies. Still, women are deemed passive, overly emotional, and always seeking aid, primarily in the form of the hard bodied male hero. Cinematic depictions of women haven 't improved since the 1950s. And the pornography industry, now more violent and exploitative than ever, rakes in more cash than Hollywood.

When it comes to sexuality in the media, it has certainly had its ups, downs, changes, and stagnations over the years. Really, the start of the media’s fascination with sexuality begins with the fact that advertisers have consistently been under a ‘delusion of sorts’ that sex sells. Over the years, you may notice that they have utilized sexualistic content and technique in order to sell certain products to consumers. There is also a factor that movies, television, and even certain video games have also been under the sexualistic increasion deal. T.V. programs have now mentioned and shown several scenes and/or storylines that happen to involve sexual activity more nowadays than seen in other previous years. According to an Oxford article, “Major

The media masquerades as a medium for self expression, but of course, only appealing versions of the self-expression are broadcast, leaving many women altering themselves to become what has been presented as what a women is. Typically no one, not even the women who do portray these ideals can perfectly encapsulate them which generates mass feelings of inadequacy. These pretenses of women being empowered over sexuality while not harmful, often ends up propagating the belief that a woman cannot be viewed as anything else unless her body is presented in a certain way

The idea of the “feminist” woman has taken off in recent years. She is self-empowered, resourceful and only with a man if she so chooses. Many shows and advertisements still embrace the age old stereotypes and the younger, more impressionable generation is watching and absorbing these messages. The issue is that the media has not gotten the idea of empowered woman not meant for male enjoyment and changed accordingly. So instead of the next generation of sure, inventive, and capable women the media is cementing ideas such as value by attraction and sexuality, starting younger and younger in these unwanted lessons. This Literature Review was conducted with the following question in mind: What do we need to understand about sexualization of young girls in media? From this review, three themes emerged: the Cause, the Effects through Sexualization and Message behind it, lastly the Perception.

Commissioned by the UK Government, the 2010 Sexualization of Young People review by Dr Linda Papadopoulos found that “exposure to the sexualized female ideal is linked with lower self-esteem, negative moods and depression in young women and girls” In many movies and television shows, female characters are nearly twice as likely to have an unusual small waists compared to their male characters in the film. They're also more than three times as likely to wear sexy clothes, have exposed skin, and have a thin body compared to their male

For nearly thirty years, popular culture has been an ever transforming mosaic of human flesh, or more specifically female flesh. While it has been known for decades that ”sex sells”, this statement has taken on bizarre, and at times offensive aspects. It seems that the more modern we become, the more sexually explicit and objectifying media content becomes. This fact remains true across multitudes of media formats; today everything from vacuum cleaners to toothpaste is madly exciting by sex appeal. Ask any senior citizen about the content of television in past generations and you will likely hear them describe modern programs as inappropriate, even vulgar. Perhaps the perversion of sexuality and the objectification of women in the media

Today, we live in a world where women are sexually objectified almost everywhere we look. Halloween used to be fun and all about candy and cute costumes when we were children, but as time goes on, adult women can feel pressured to dress up as something sexy, like a sexy bunny, a sexy doctor, or a sexy tree somehow. In the marketing world, we now see women portrayed as body parts, only having their legs shown in ads to sell the latest designer shoe or their inexplicably wet lips on a billboard to promote an upper lip wax. Even in television and in movies, women are depicted as being very sexual by their actions, dialogue, and “barely there” clothing. Because of an increase in social media, videos from YouTube are being rapidly shared between friends and amongst those videos are their favorite music videos from a popular artist. Music videos have become more and more sexually explicit and include the sexual objectification of women like the rest of our media, no matter what the genre of music is. One has to wonder whether or not this kind of exposure has an effect on men and their sexual beliefs.

Are comic book movies the new Westerns? Who knows, but it is hard to deny that comic book movies have gained a massive amount of attention within the past 15 years. Whether it be the nostalgia, action, or even the characters themselves, everyone seems to enjoy comic book movies. Unfortunately, most of the characters are male. Most of the studios with superhero properties have a problem with gender equality, and Marvel Studios’s problem seems to be more obvious. Marvel Studios has one of the biggest superhero movie franchises, with Iron-Man, Captain America, Thor, and Hulk each having at least one movie of their own. With a team of six in The Avengers, only one was female, and she was hastily introduced in Iron-Man’s second movie. There are