Sexual Exploitation Of Women In The Media

In the article, “The Negative Effects of the Media on Body Image” by Esther Vargas, there were several issues discussed about the negative effects that media has on body image in society. Many girls

It seems that the media’s portrayal of women has negatively affected the body image of The Wykeham Collegiate senior school girls. The media has a negative effect on the youth of today, primarily amongst the female population when it comes to how young girls and women regard

There has been a growing trend of hypersexualization of women over the span of all forms of media. The women within these images are made to look perfectly flawless. They are extremely thin without a trace of fat or cellulite to be found. The people who consume this media are exposed to the idea that the women they are observing are models for true physical beauty. These standards are accompanied by an alternate message from the media that pushes the idea that women’s value comes from their beauty. While some women may understand that the messages about the ideal woman are unrealistic and false, it is found that adolescent girls are vulnerable to the media’s strategies due to their lack of media literacy as well as the search for their own identity during this developmental stage in their lives. The exposure to these standards of beauty can have several negative effects on the girls such as lower self-esteem, higher body dissatisfaction, depression, and eating disorders. SPARK and 4 Every Girl are two of a growing number of campaigns that are working to fight against the sexualized images of women in the media and the negative effects it can have on the viewers.

The media, today, continues to falsely portray the image of the ideal woman. This misrepresentation adversely affects the self-esteem of women and young girls. After evaluating their physical appearances and comparing them to edited pictures, females develop unrealistic expectations of how they should appear physically to others. This misconception can cause great concern about their bodies and very low self-esteem. Young girls will abuse their bodies by starving themselves to be thinner and properly proportioned according to society’s expectations. Body Dysphoria has become a growing concern in very young girls because of unrealistic images of women. The media also seems to have no concern of the images they are displaying of men. In magazines

The portrayal of women in the media is destroying positive body image in young girls. According to Sarah Grogan, body image is “a person’s perceptions, thoughts and feelings about his or her body”. The media sends the message, from very early on, that what is most important is the way women look to the heterosexual male gaze, and that their value and their worth depends on that. It is easy to understand that the media perpetuates an unattainable beauty standard, but what is more difficult is realising how that affects our adolescents.

(Heubeck 2006) For many young people, especially girls, the ideal continues to chase them as they grow into young women. Young girls begin to internalize the stereotypes and judge themselves by media’s impossible standards. The power that the media holds in impacting the lives of young girls is detrimental and eventually affects their body image, their satisfaction of their own body, and portrayal of their body as an object.

Women’s Body Image (www.wellesley.edu/Health/BodyImage) helped demonstrates the young influence of magazines. Those days when girls strive to be something they weren’t, were probably the most crucial days in body imaging. They succumbed into the pressure of looking how everyone else wants them to look. Such teeny bopper magazines sell to many young girls the idea of beauty. Teen Magazine is the princess of that royal court. In every young woman, or man’s mind, there is this longing to be desired. To be desired, you must be attractive. To be attractive, you have to look like that girl on page seventy-one in the latest Teen Magazine (Women’s Body Image).

“When close to 2,000 women in the United States were surveyed in the years 2010-2011, only 12.2% were found to be satisfied with their body sizes” (Whyte, Newman, Voss 822). There are many negative effects on women starting at younger and younger ages because of the body image that is portrayed in the media. Being exposed to the media at a young age makes girls more vulnerable to what they see and hear which makes this a long-term problem. Seeing models, women believe these pictures to be “ideal” and compare themselves to that. They can even compare themselves to their peers which could lead to bullying. Some girls do not realize that the models are not portrayed as a real, average women. Their

Women are sexually exploited in the media. In today’s society if people watch television programs such as Chingy featuring Snoop & Ludacris – Holidae; Charlie's Angels; the Z100 commercial with Britney Spears; or Baywatch they will see that the feminine image is presented differently than the masculine. In these programs men are typically placed in sexual situations fully clothed, while women are presented in provocative clothing or less. The camera will frequently zoom in on body parts to focus on the woman’s buttocks, midriff, and legs. Society is still dominated by men who control what people see. As a result women are increasingly portrayed as sex symbols as a way for a media company to turn

Mass media imposes how adolescent girls are supposed to act through advertisements in teen magazines, such as the thin body type representation and being feminine. Teen magazines reinforce stereotypes and gender prescriptions directly to adolescent girls into womanhood and negotiate their roles of being feminine, being fashionistas, and focusing on enhancing their appearance (Currie, 1997). In Decoding Femininity, Currie (1997) explains that during the 1980s “feminist sociologist characterized the advertisements, feature articles, and stories appealing to women’s magazines as vehicles of women socialization into subordinate roles” (p. 456). “Research on adolescent girl magazines has been done, and these magazines promote socialization of

Teenage girls are at an impressionable time in their lives. Mass Media is a key idea in one of the factors of socialization that become important to teenagers. Teenagers look to the media for a sense of entertainment. Whether it is movies, magazines, or even some aspects of social media, teenagers get a lot of influence from the media’s message. The problem with this is the media has a specific way of doing things and can be negative to a susceptible teenage girl. Media’s way of portraying a woman can be skewed and unrealistic way from what reality is. Teenage girls then have a desire for this look or way. In this essay the three ways I will describe as to why the media can negatively affect a teenage girls body image is by showing

In todays society media has many different represtionations of womens body ideals and they are portrayed in many different ways. The majority of body images are female and represented with negative connotations. Women are plasteted on billboards magazine covers and play an very important role in the way young women are viewed and how they feel they should look. Through out this essay I will look how media has such a massive impact on our lives and the power it has to control the ideals of young women and how the industries with in the use of media are exploting women of today and how they are benifitting from it to make multibillion companys with out the a second thought to the explotation and harm it is causing to our socity and health with in the new generorations. I will also explore how some organistions are fighting against this ideal and how this is creating a more healthy view of women and challenging what we have had drummed into since an early age.

For decades, images of the ideal sexualized female body have plagued covers of magazines and other forms of published media in the United States, perpetuating notions of what the sexual female body should look like (Krassas, Blauwkamp and Wesselink 2001). These images of the sexualized female body are deeply embedded in advertisements and media, both of which hold strong roots in the United States, as well as other comparable countries in the developed world (Baker 2005). It is estimated, that the average citizen of the United States is subjected to roughly 3,000 advertisements a day (Baker 2005). Therefore, the idea that the messages these advertisements send would permeate our thoughts and beliefs towards an object or certain demographic of people is not far fetched (Baker 2005). The idea that images of women are depicted in published media in a way that suggests that they are objects to satisfy the sexual desire of the male gaze is by no means novel (Baker 2005). However, the impact that these representations have on the sexuality of female bodies who do not fit into these idealized images is a topic less frequently discussed. Specifically, a common belief and misconception is that the pregnant body is one whose sexuality is viewed in a negative context, especially when it comes to reproductive functions such as breast-feeding (Huntley 2000). These bodies are often viewed as grotesque, and sexuality surrounding the pregnant body is frequently deemed as “offensive”, and

With different ways to deliver information to audiences, such as mainstream newspaper’s; to radio talk shows; to Internet, methods are chosen depending upon the audience targeted. The media try to bring understanding to events that affect people. Seventy-five percent of U.S. households are connected to the Internet; leaving a big gap in access in terms of age and education. Thirty-seven percent of Americans aged 65 and older go online, compared to seventy-two percent of those aged 50 to 64, 85% of those aged 30 to 49, and 92% percent of those aged 18 to 29. Only a small percentage of young people receive news via digital services such as cell phones or ipods. Because of a decline of online news delivery, a majority of people receive news from watching television.

The rise of digital technology convergence has made it achievable for technological organizations to deliver video, audio, and text material by the same wired, wireless or fiber-optic connections. In the past communications technology were separate and they provided specific services. Telephone and computer services regulated on different platforms. With digital technology convergence, a new age of multimedia has been introduced whereas images and data can be imported together to create a single network that distributes more efficient and effective services to the consumer of information content. Many of the content that is made today is in the fashion of a digital format, which offers consumers a spectrum of options to choose from, for the content that wants to consume. Digital technology convergence is allowing companies to blend and produce better and adequate services. With digital technology convergence, communication has become more effortless and faster as audiences can communicate directly with one another and with authors and publishers of mass media content through email, online forums, and other interactive media. In conclusion, one can say that digital technology convergence confits the combination of technologies of broadcasting, telecommunications, computing, and printing. This approach has in various ways changed the very attributes of mass communication and is rapidly changing media and journalism as several types of mass media increasingly converge into a