Positive Female Role Models Eliminate Negative Effects of Sexually Violent Media by Christopher J. Ferguson,

The media is such a large part of the United States, and the world in general. The media and all of its components can be a rewarding part of society, like entertainment and staying well-informed, but it can also paint a stereotypical and degrading image of women. In the early 1900's, around the 1920's to be more precise, women in movies and on television did not have the creative boundaries they have today. Women were able to control their own sexuality, but in the mid-1900's Hollywood set up two major roles women could portray; the “innocent ingenue or the threateningly sexual vamp (pg 18).” Although media has changed over the years since 1950, the limits still remain. By today's standards, women typically play the love interest of the protagonist who can be used by the antagonist as leverage.

“Media Violence: Opposing Viewpoints” edited by William Dudley conveys the reader with key statistics, and explanations to understand the difficulty of media violence. The data includes the following: “47% of all violent intercommunications display no harm to victims, and 58% show no agony. Similarly less recurrent is the illustration of an everlasting aftermath of violence. Evidence also shows that only 16% of all programs depict the long-term negative backlash of assault, such as cognitive, monetary, or poignant harm, apart 4% of violent programs engage a robust anti-violent

1). The psychological issues, caused by the media’s influence, regarding violence and sex are impacting the society. One of the topics that the media has greatly influence is gender roles. The media is influencing gender roles by accepting the gender role confusion. Gender role confusion is where a person believes that they should be the other gender. The media is promoting the gender role confusion. The change of attitudes about this topic has changed from negative feelings about gender role confusion to positive feelings about the confusion. Another thing the media depicts in gender is how a woman or how a man should act. This connects back to gender roles and how the society views how we should act. One other thing that media depicts,

Violent sexual scenes in movies and television shows have normalized sexual violence, and these scenes are increasingly made more available to children at younger ages. Sexually violent scenes in mass media contribute to myths that circulate around rape. Instead of rape scenes showing the true emotional impact on the victim, they are geared more towards sexual arousal of the audience. One writer argues that “as long as the public is being seduced by the myth that rape is about sex and not about power, and that rape is about lust and not oppressive violence, then the rape culture can continue to thrive and to destroy women” (Pearson 13). Violence in the media is a longstanding argument in America about how much is too much and whether normalization of violent acts has resulted in a more violent culture. This topic alone can be written over the span of many textbooks, for the purpose of this paper it is important to acknowledge that mass media and the portrayal of sexual crimes committed against men and women greatly contribute to rape culture. If sexual violence is portrayed for what it really is to the perpetrators and to the victims, this may change the perceptions Americans have and ultimately contribute to an anti-rape culture that treats rapists and victims far differently than they are treated

The rising concern over the potential effect of violent and sexually explicit media on people has become very

After examining multiple sources, the damaging effects on women that is influenced through media involves many different aspects as it includes body dissatisfaction and body shaming, mental disorders including eating disorders, depression, and low self-esteem, and impacts on sexuality based on how women are portrayed in media. It can be concluded that they hypothesis was correct in the sense that the media is influencing the sexualization of girls and causing these negative effects to occur.

Media violence is one of the most debated public issues society faces today. Television screens are loaded with the glamorization of weapon carrying. Violence constitute as amusing and trivialized. Needless portrayals of interpersonal violence spread across the television screens like wild fire. Televisions spew the disturbing events such as children being assaulted, husbands inflicting domestic abuse on their wives and children succumbing to abuse by their parents. Scenes of betrayal, anguish, infiltrate the television screen. Unfortunately, a child becomes subjected to media violence. Everything a child sees or hears in the media affects them in some way or another. The precise effects of media violence on children are

​Over the many years media has had a tremendous impact on society. Media has been responsible for shaping the culture for generations through music, movies and television. It seems logical that since the media has an influence on society’s norms when the media promotes violence and crime the audiences become more likely to imitate those behaviors. The media has been known to contribute to the violent culture through music, art, television and movies (action, suspense and horror); Movies and music where the dominant violent roles were occupied by men and when they involved women they were often accomplices or accessories to the crime. Although they may be amusing they are also exposing the

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Technologies evolve, but sex and violence have always been and remain hot button issues in the media. The pace of the new technological change can be so great that we can no longer wait on formal media effects research to guide our personal decisions. There have been many changes that have been taken place with media sex and violence today since I was a child. I believe that the media technologies have increased the negative effects of sex and violence on children and adults today. This paper will discuss why and provide examples of how it has an effect on adults and children because it’s not only an adult issue. This paper will also discuss recommendations

Popular culture impacts our everyday lives. It influences us into falling for advertisements that makes us want to buy a product or change our way of thinking. For instance, television, a vital key in popular culture, promotes topics that mold our minds for better or for worse especially in children. In the article, “APA Congressional Testimony on Media Violence and Children”, Jeff J. McIntyre claims that the substantial exposure of violence in the media is affecting the minds of younger children in a negative way. This essay will explore how popular culture creates complications towards a younger generation, as explained by Jeff J. McIntyre, in order to explore the different ways in which violent media is being promoted and affecting

Television is the source of the most broadly shared images and messages in history; it is the mainstream of the common symbolic environment into which children are born and which has a major part to play in our lives. One can argue that media violence contribute towards social violence where the effects place a huge impact in ones being. Television violence is not only a form of media violence; there are other significant forms of media that contribute to media violence which are computer games, comic books and music. In this essay I will compare the theoretical perspectives and methodologies of at least three different approaches to the study of the effects of media violence and how effective they are in establishing a link between

The levels of analysis explain the effects media violence has on behaviour in a three-level framework of biological, psychological and sociological perspectives. This essay will look at each level of analysis and how they help the understanding of media violence and its effects on behaviour and in conclusion explain the complexities of the interrelationships between the levels in explaining behaviour.

- Sex and and violence portrayed in media has become an important topic of how it affects the minds of individuals. There have been several debates involving whether more censorship is necessary. Sex and violence are very similar in the media however they can be treated very differently.

Our sex saturated media is also generating conflict in young girls’ development. The portrayal of women as sexual objects is discussed in the article “The sexualization of Girls is Harmful” by Olivia Ferguson and Hayley Mitchell Haugen. The article cites statistics of “prime-time television shows popular among children” remarking that “12% of sexual comments involved sexual objectification toward women” and “23% of sexual behaviors involved leering, ogling or catcalling at female characters”.(par 6) The feature provides www.aboutkidshealth.ca/ as an “online resource for information about areas of children’s health and family life”. (Par 1) This web site states “depression, low self-esteem and eating disorders” as consequences for media sexualizing women. (Par 2) The research defines “the objectification theory as a psychological theory explaining the