Sexism: The Role Of Women In The Media

Everyday kids are growing up to believe that one gender is better than the other. We live in a world where males are supposedly better than women. This day in age, the media is one of the biggest factors that go into shaping our societies views on gender. Which is why the influence caused from the media on our society is creating a negative effect on the views of gender.

A perfect example of the male gaze in the documentary was the very alarming clip of the old news anchor who was obsessed with rolling footage of Paris Hilton, despite his female co-anchors desire to actually report news. As discussed in the film, the hypersexualization of women and the continual emphasis on a woman’s appearance seems to be reducing women to simply being objects. The media continues to reinforce and promote patriarchal ideologies, as opposed to continually promoting ideologies that represent women as strong, capable contributors to

fifty times in the press. Male political figures might be called mean and terrible names, yet those words do not, more often than not, reflect superstition and fear (Monière 2006).

“It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need”. These wise words come from the Saturday Night Live alum, Amy Poehler, who is renowned for her comedic work on the hit live sketch comedy series. When it comes to gender and television, women possess certain rights and opportunities that aren’t always there due to an innate gender bias that society has grown to possess throughout the years. What few roles are offered, usually fulfill gender stereotypes. However, the outcry in recent years for women to have equal opportunity in every industry has gradually shifted the number of women that appear in television to increase and caused their portrayal to become more balanced and realistic in many programs.

Movies will be completely biased on gender, race, orientation, and economic standing to catch the attention of anyone and everyone. The tendency to stereotype in movies seems to affect it’s audiences on usually a personal level. Hence, the reason for either the positive, curious, or negative attention it draws. An example for a gender stereotyped scene in film could be revealed in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. In this film, the female lead role plays a woman who joins an all male news team with a dream in becoming a news anchor in the 70s. Now during that time, all news anchors were white males. Since the feminist movement was taking place, it was believed that woman weren’t capable at doing a “man’s job” whatever men, at the time,

The misrepresentation of women in the media has been at its highest. Reality shows such as Love and Hip Hop, have degraded and exploited women where they are only seen as objects who compete over men. They are not able to have a identity that is positive. I wanted to create a platform where you can see the true side of women. Having them tell their stories and accomplishments. Where they are seen past their physical features and given a voice. The issues discussed through the interviews are also expressed through my poetry. As women they are taking their identities back and showing who they really are, regardless of how they are depicted through the media.

One thousand years go by and an abundant amount of people still view women in a stereotypical type of way. On the opposing view, if women did not overstretch the slightest of things, this wouldn’t be such an enormous issue. Women may be overreacting to what the media has to say about them. It is not affecting everybody but a vast majority of successful women from continuing to moving forward said Marianne Schnall. Important to realize, women are capable of doing jobs men can do. Such jobs as being an engineer, physician, mechanic, lawyer and even top notch business women! Up to the present time there is an ongoing public debate on women suffering from double standards. If it makes a female feel threatened or belittled than it may be

The media tough guise video is a video that identifies some cultural developments dominion power of masculinity that have lasted over 30 years and its activities are viewed to be responsible for the modern day violence in the society such as, child sexual abuse, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, crimes and murder, and shootings in the community because the masculinity wears some masks to disguise themselves for being tough.

Media influence causes 69 percent of girls, in one study, to state that magazine models impact their idea of the perfect body shape. This drastic affect on a young person 's life creates a reality that women need to alter the way they look to be ‘perfect.’ Media also portrays women as helpless beings, needing a man by their side to complete easy tasks in which they can do on their own. There is also the aspect of strong women being sexy, and not the intelligent, intellectual women that they are. Throughout many girls lives, growing up, there are self esteem issues that will resonate with them for years to come. Commercials and advertisements feed on the implication that females believe they will never be flawless or beautiful, so they will do anything to get there. These impacts from media have catastrophic results. This is critical today because there are more eating disorders, health issues, and suicides than ever before. Women should be represented as strong, fearless individuals as opposed to the stereotypical ‘damsel in distress’ media pins them as today. Media limits girls and women from discovering possibilities they could have as leaders through objectificatoin and sexualazation.

Language is a system of communication which consists of a set of sounds and written symbols which are used by the people of a particular country or region for talking or writing. It is considered as an art because when used it able to help a person develop or create a certain picture in the mind. Language being an artifact of culture means that it is an interesting thing that is created by the people. It is an aspect of their way of life of the people. It also helps in development of the people as writers and intellects. As a culture it is a people’s way of life and therefore the impact it has to human beings cannot be under looked.

“People learn more from media than any other single source of information” (Missrepresentation). This quote exemplifies how society learns and creates their standards about people, places, and things. All sources and mediums of media impact billions of lives every day. The media holds this power over society and it’s time to change that; especially when it comes to the media’s view of women. Women are constantly being misrepresented. This misrepresentation of women in the media is negatively impacting America by corrupting both the youth and adults. This is occurring because of the hyper-sexualization of women, wrongly portraying women in leadership positions, and creating stereotypes of women in movies and television.

We’re all probably aware of sexist representations in the media from newspapers and magazines to the movies, TV and radio. For example, Rolling Stone magazine didn’t used to be a soft porn magazine, but it is so common now for female musicians to be in soft-porn poses on its cover. Howard Stern, the radio DJ, is always asking his female guests and callers what they are wearing. Stern focuses heavily on women’s physical

Gender inequality is the idea or situation that men and women are not equal, and is a problem in countries around the world. I will be focusing my research on this type of inequality in Canada. It is an issue for both men and women that they are exposed to at birth, is fed by the media as a teen, and continues in their everyday life as an adult. My approach to this issue is examining three topics that are related to my assignment: childhood, everyday life, and the media. Acts of gender inequality can be found within these broad points that negatively or positively affect males and females. For childhood, there will be toys, clothing, and child advertising. In everyday life, I will cover the workplace, travel, and costs. Media will include celebrities, television/movies, and social media. My thesis statement is: gender inequality is evident in many stages of human development through childhood, teenage years, and adulthood. Gender inequality is a real thing and it is proven in childhood, as a teenager, and adult.

Gender Bias in the Media is happening right now all around us, woman are being treated differently because of they're gender, many women are expected to maintain certain beauty standards and are less likely to receive leadership roles. I recently was given the ability to listen to an interview regarding this issue. Robyn Urback is a Canadian journalist and political commentator based in Toronto, Ontario recently gave a speech and received an interview regarding this issue. Robyn Urback discussed many different problems about one of the biggest one that stands out to me was the sexual abuse and double standards. She mentioned a few examples, one being how news media companies like Fox News encouraged their woman to show their legs and wear short skirts, furthermore, to not sit in the middle of the table since the stand would block the view of their legs. For many years, news reports indicated the network didn’t allow its female hosts to wear pants.

Many people see that our country has overcome sexism as well as other parts of the world, but have we actually been able to completely overcome sexism? If we sit and think about it, are both genders treated completely equal in our country, society, and community? We have been able to progress our society to be more accepting, open minded, and to treat women in better terms, but we still have not achieved one-hundred percent equality between men and women. There is sexism still in multiple different areas between men and women of our world. Inequality in wages, taking authority, expectations, responsibilities, etc. The area of sexism I would like focus in on, is the global issue of the sexual label society and social media puts onto women.