Is The Bachelor And Bachelorette?

Feminism has become a hot topic around the world as of late. Feminism is defined by the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. Regardless the changes there have been for the past 50 years toward women, is not enough to have a real equal society. Media is one major contributor to the increasing of machismo and sexism. Through numerous TV shows, movies, and even advertisements, there are still implicit machismo and degradation toward women. However, there are still TV shows where women are shown with fairness. For example, the TV show Gilmore Girls where strongly support women by showing three different female characters, including Rory Gilmore, Paris Geller, and Lorelai Gilmore.

The quality of American television has become a national disgrace. Young women in America who are displeased with their appearance more likely then not can trace those feelings directly back to images from the mass media on television. The unrealistic representations of women that the mass media bombards young women with indicates that the television has become a source for a distorted understanding of gender roles among adolescent women. These images warp young women’s views of their own gender identity. The mass media on television should in an attempt to provide more positive gender identities for adolescent women depict women on television in more realistic ways, should stop

Television networks are continually expanding their programming slates, and many in the past have switched to a year-round programming schedule that makes the phrase “summer return” basically absolute. On every channel, in every magazine, every darken theater, we see the way pop culture limits women’s role- girlfriends, victims, hookers, corpses, sex bombs, and “teases,” but why? Television, for most women, was the first place where they were able to visually see themselves represented. And for quite a while, they didn’t see much besides the loving wife, the dutiful daughter, gossiping girlfriends, fashion models, and the occasional maid, granny, or nanny. In Where the Girls Are: Growing Up

I noticed how women are still treated/looked at as objects. I think it's really annoying how women couldn't speak or even have a say in anything and if they tried to talk they were ignored. “But they had often wound up sitting silent in political meetings or trying to speak and being ignored” (Collins 183). Women are just as helpful as men, if not more helpful and have similar ideas to men so why be rude to them. I think women should be hear and treated equally. This whole situation reminds me of the movie we are currently watching

Modern media has a massive audience with more than 115 million American household families owning a television (NewsWire). Everyday viewers devote time to watching programs and are intrigued by the attractive actors and the situations they encounter. Although these characters and their lives seem to be unbelievably attractive, many of the shows have stereotypical gender qualities. Regina George in Mean Girls frequently portrays qualities that are often seen as ideal ways for women to live, though a closer look reveals the limitations with these ideas.

Another guilty party in the effort to maintain women to lower status is American pop culture, which predominantly portrays women as being nothing more than sex objects. This is only relevant in that it illustrates how "backlash" does not only apply on a government level, but also in entertainment. The younger generations (children through 18 years old, mostly) are far more influenced by pop culture than they are by the government. The messages conveyed by the industry hit at a rather impressionable age. Faludi only touched on this aspect, noting that the television and films generally portray career women as being high-strung and unwed. Furthermore, popular novels show these women as being bitter spinsters whom practically beg for marriage. In this all-too subtle way, the media mocks the independent woman. Rarely are happily married, working women featured. The film industry fails to equally represent females at all. In 2002, 77% of protagonists were males in their 30s and 40s. The mere 16% of characters whom are female are portrayed primarily in their 20s and 30s. Women over 40 accounted for 9% of all

Do we choose how to treat women? Or women choose how to be treated? In our world women are more likely to get their rights robbed and taken away from them and it shows how men and women aren’t equal in their basic rights, political views ,education and jobs . Women are being treated unfairly and that could lead to huge problems where it would be hard to fix. I will be clearing this social issue by comparing it to other countries.

These shows are encouraging more women to pursue their desires, especially their sexual desires. Women have to build their identity at first to really examine who they are and what they want. After all that I believe they can have a bigger drive towards female sexuality. Eventually, respect toward oneself is constituted by an individual themselves and is subject to how they feel. There is

Why is it that people are so attracted to all forms of entertainment? Is there a greater purpose behind all those hours spent glued to screens? In the media, satirical entertainment has emerged as a force revealing truths. Merriam Webster defines satire as “a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn”. The role of satire in the entertainment industry is to expose the weaknesses and corruption in society.

While some of television’s airtime is given to assertive, independent-career women and nurturing, domesticated men, many primetime shows have left men and women in traditional stereotypical roles. It began in the 1950s through the 1970s. Men were portrayed as masculine, intelligent, and all knowing. Women were portrayed as stay at home moms, who cook and clean. Women’s responses to the men are, “Yes Dear” or “Coming Dear.”

It is now and accepted fact that gender roles exist. Whether you call them gender roles or characterize actions or behaviors as “lady-like” or “a man’s job”, they exist and they are a problem. A common saying used to excuse the blatantly ignorant actions usually reflecting sexism is one I am sure you are familiar with. That saying is “Boys will be boys”. Something making a big impact on this internalized hatred is the image women feel forced to fulfill shoved down our throats by social media, magazines, all in attempt to sell a product to women so that we may look like these unattainable images. Young girls are taught that if a boy causes you physical harm, it means he likes you. We romanticize abuse. These girls grow up and get into abusive

Society places a lot of blame on daily interactions and public views through what people observe and learn from television sitcoms and movies. Parents believe that children are now being confused about their sexuality just from watching television shows and movies. People believe that what they view in today’s popular television sitcoms and movies are ways to act in every day society. Most sitcoms and movies however, are just enabling sexuality and gender conflictions within today’s youth. According to the author bell hooks “What does it mean that media has such control of our imaginations that they don't want to accept that there are conscious manipulations taking place and that in fact, we

Although both The Bachelor and Bachelorette are entertaining, nearly all of the couples do not stay together. Of the combined thirty three seasons only nine of the couples are still together to this day. Specifically, of the twenty one seasons, including this season of The Bachelor, four couples are still together, with the earliest season dating back to 2010. With only twelve seasons of The Bachelorette, including the most recent 2016 season, five of the couples are still together, with the earliest season, being the first season of 2003. (Wet Paint) Overall, I believe The Bachelor and Bachelorette is more for becoming known as well as providing entertainment versus actually finding love, whether you have the intent to or not. In addition,

This over sexualization of female heroes is also addressed by Jessica Andrade (2003) when her findings showed that male viewers choose to watch shows with female leads based solely on the attractiveness of the actress. Continued viewing of the show may be due to various reasons, but the initial hook for males is sex appeal compared to women who watch these shows in order to relate to strong female characters. Hillary Pennell and Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz (2015) focused on the effects that these oversexualized heroines have specifically on the young women that are watching. The use of these astronomically beautiful women that are sexed up can have very negative effects on the body image of a young woman. The super sexualized women in media also dampens young women’s opinions of equality and changes views of how far women have come in their fight for

For close to a decade, the ethics behind the existence of reality TV have been questioned. While there are ardent viewers of reality TV, researchers and other scholars disapprove them, and claim that the world would have been in a better place. Reality TV shows, especially in America, are extremely profitable to media owners, and this has increased their popularity in the recent years. The main target audience for these shows are teenagers and women, who spend a lot of time discussing about them, even hours after the shows. Most of the reality shows in America and other parts of the world have common ideas. The most fundamental aspect of most reality TV shows is that they display people who go through embarrassing, painful and humiliating ordeals. This is what the reality shows expect their audiences to be entertained, and presumably laugh at the situations the people go through. For this reason and many more, it has been found that they are more detrimental than entertaining to the society, and therefore, the world would be in a better place without them (Pozner 89-91).