Final Project: Objectification of women in the Media
My
final project is an essay paper with embedded images which helped me to support
my points on the paper. I focus particularly in how women are represented in
the media and i analyzed themes such as: How the media present women as a sexual
object? Is media creating social stereotypes of women? Who are the most affected?
Is this “ideal” women represented by the media is harmful? The objectification
of women in the media, especially advertising is giving a tremendous wrong
impact in our society; mainly to young girls. The media is focusing in the
women as sexual objects. Consequently, the media is creating stereotypes to
represent women’s image, as “ideal”,
this is affecting our society in the wrong way, most of young woman are following what they see without questioning;
all these wrong ideas and pressures are bringing to our Young girls unhealthy
and physical habits as well, such as eating disorder, depression, etc . This is a big problem, because the more the media
is representing women as a sexual object the more audience are getting satisfy and
as a result the audience is accepting it. That’s why; the media is disturbing
our society in a very irreparable way.
Media represent women as a sexual object; it is obvious, that they are selling sex more than
the product itself, and by doing so, they are making women as a sexual object
rather than a person. The advertising pictures are very seductive, pleasurable, and also represents
women as vulnerable, which is another issue, the public gets the wrong message,
and they see women as an “object”.
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| women present as a sexual object on advertising. |
Media is creating social stereotypes of women, they have to
look more feminine, must be always skinny, tall, and have a long hair, usually
blonde and light skin tone. If the women have all these features, they will be qualified
to advertise any product with the expectation, that the product will be sold. Obviously, advertising not only creates stereotypes to sell their
products, but manipulates our entire life, if we choose to follow their objectives.
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| Social stereotype of women created by the media |
“Ideal” women represented by the media is harmful Young girls, have a tendency to be influence by, what
they see; therefore media creates a tremendous power over them. Girls’ body
images are affected by media, pressures to maintain stereotypical body types
(thinness for young women). As a result, of all these pressure, young girls will
do anything to get that perfect figure.
In most of these cases, they will hurt themselves to the point that,
they may suffer from depression, and eating disorder in which can be shown in
the image below:
To conclude, i choose to write this essay, because i think it is an important topic to be discuss. It is so many to talk and learn, i just covered a very small portion of it. I know it is really hard to change society minds. But, at least we can educated people little by little by publishing information. Especially for young girls which are the most affected. My whole essay can be found in the following link:
http://www.booksie.com/gabmertens
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| "Ideal" women represented by the media it can be harmful. |
http://www.booksie.com/gabmertens
Bibliography
Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Rutledge, 1990. Print.
Douglas, Susan J. Where the Girls Are: Growing up Female with the Mass Media. New York: Times, 1994. Print.
Hooks, Bell. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love. Chapter 2: Understanding Patriarchy. New York: Atria Books, 2004.
Kilbourne, Jean. Beauty and the Beast of Advertising. Print.
Laser, Anne Julie and Nicole Nicotera. Working with adolescents: A guide for practitioners. New York: The Guilford Press. 2011. Print.
Ross, Dentre Susan and Paul Martin Lester. Images that injure. Santa Barbara: 2011. Print.
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