The Women Of The Media

I really enjoyed watching the documentary, Miss Representation. It was very informative and eye opening. The film explores the impact that the media has on society and the misrepresentation of women. While the media can be a place to learn and stay up to date, there is also an ugly side to it. Our generation spends a huge amount of our time on our phones, computers, and watching tv so I feel like we are affected by the media the most. The media influences people at a young age impacting their views on themselves and the world around them. Girls especially get the message that their value is on how they look. The way media portrays women in movies and television over sexualizes women and dehumanizes them. This type of media can lead women to

talks about the story of independent women who is in the working force. Even though these movies are released almost 20 years apart, they share a lot of similarities with how independent women are being portrayed in the media.

“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.

Realistic representations of women in the media will teach women to strive to achieve attainable goals that have positive outcomes. Furthermore, the media’s definition of “beautiful” is not healthy.

The text references when girls mature early that they often lack self-confidence and many teens that reach puberty early have a dissatisfaction with there body image.( Berk 206) The advice that was given was good, but if it was given by an adult they might have went a step further to talk about eating disorders and warning against unhealthy habits such as over exercising or not eating just as an example. “M” magazine depicts unrealistic images of thin women that have perfectly trimmed bodies and even the ones that are mentioned as being “curvy” are in shape and thin. Teens see images of males and females that have these “perfect” bodies, make-up, hair, and fashion and want to imitate that person and they become that teens new role model. None of the articles in the magazine shows the work that goes into preparing these teens for these articles. Many of the people depicted in the magazine have rigorous work out routines, strict diets, a personal trainer, make-up artists, and access to all the latest fashion because of there fame. As adults we realize that no one wakes up in the morning looking like Taylor Swift or Joe Jonas without a lot of hard work. These stars are depicted in this magazine though and it circulates half way around the world and teens look up to these stars and die trying to look like them or spend there lives loathing themselves because they can not. These images are not supportive of a healthy

A critical gendered lens is addressing the binary structures that people are placed in when they are portrayed in the media. Why is the man the rational voice of reason yet hyper aggressive and the woman is deemed emotional or crazy in every other sense. Women are seen as nothing, but a sexual object, whose sexuality is characterized as far as genuinely obliged thoughts of attractiveness (Markham, 2005). Western accepted cultural naturally unequivocally defined categories of gender with distinctive psychological and behavioral properties prediction from reproductive functions. Division between men and women, men’s work and women’s work, how men and women ought to act is a division perceived by biology (West aand Zimmerman,1987). Structural

Magazine like Seventeen can negatively impact how female teens view themselves by creating female ideology that girls think they should fulfill. Also, making teenage girls feeling anxious about their body image, and creating self-dissatisfaction. Lastly, magazine is

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Obviously, there’s no breaking the glass ceiling overnight, but I do believe some of our largest potential to clear the lesser travelled path of responsibility, leadership, power and success for women, lies in our education system. Our fourth, eighth or even twelfth female prime minister could be currently aspiring to play on the boy’s team or even endeavouring to compose her deeply engrained passion for gender equality into a powerful essay in her eager search for opportunity in a male dominated field. These walls exist in our society and it’s our responsibility to tear them down before they rise dauntingly above our nations next generation of young women. This notion is already in Australia and progressing with some speed. Prevalent for example, in the multitude of scholarships and programs encouraging women’s participation in the male dominated

Younger women often get more attention in the media more than middle aged or older women. The media are main focused on fun looking women that has energy and spunk with more details to be interesting to grab attention. Different films prefer younger women because they can play universal parts that is less demanding, and can go along with the flow of what the media expects. Many are unaware that some women are pressurd to die their hair to please the news networks to their liking. “All he wants her to do, For God’s sake, is dye her hair blonde but she won’t do it”(Schoonmaker. In the News, especially, they prefer blondes, because some women are forces into this style for the demand for the position of an

Sexual objectification within fashion is so huge. Young teens can purchase items that mage them look out of age and own for sexual misconduct. When you realize that it doesn't have to be about tight, revealing, clothing becomes sometimes boring and unbought. Going on to various topics within this essay, because there's so much women go through within the media, it's outraged. Say for instance if you’re a woman promoting breast cancer awareness. Some things can be put out of context.

The current idealistic attractive image portrayed in the media has a negative impact on the self-esteem in both men and women. Every day the media displays ideals of attractiveness for both genders, and in a matter of time, society will begin to demand these same media standards among individuals. According to the press, idealistic men tend to have defined chest, broad shoulders, muscular arms and slim waist. On the contrary, idealistic women tend to be surprisingly thin and well-toned. This portrayal of attractiveness is often manipulated by media industries and impossible for the majority of viewers to achieve. Some individuals internalize these standards of attractiveness, and they tend to suffer adverse effects such as body-focused anxiety

In a world where women account for just under half the population the representation of women in media is shocking! Media is one of the most powerful tools to educate, effect social changes and spread political awareness in the world. From childhood our personalities have been shaped due to films and TV programmes, yet only 12% of protagonists in 2014s top 100 grossing films were female. This is only one of the many examples of how women are unfairly disadvantaged in the media industry. This is ridiculous in a world where gender equality is thought to be greatly improved. Woman have gained the right to vote, escaped household roles and have achieved successful careers in the past century but are still given less protagonist roles, paid

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).

Skinny, blond, ditzy, annoying, un-educated, easy, and considered a typical women. If you’re a women and you hear these words, does it make you think of who you are, or your mother or sisters? I think not…but I do think about the people I see on television and in magazines or in movies. What I want to know is who is writing the scripts for some of the television shows that I watch. I would like to hope that it’s not women putting these stereotypes on their fellow “sisters”.