It is generally hard to avoid media in a society where people are surrounded with laptops, news, magazines, or billboards. Media has been constructing society through its strong influence. It encompassed many illustrations and messages about both genders today. Therefore, it is absurd that they will not lead to any negative influences. Norms are being adjusted through the new ideas that are expressed in media. New ideas have generated a bigger emphasis on gender stereotypes within media. Within, women’s actions in society were based on the social construction of gender. Those gender stereotypes constantly downgrade women in all aspects. For example, women are viewed as sexual commodities.
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Women are misrepresented despite feminists’ trials of adjusting the views interpreted. With the increase of technology use, the capacity of women experiences has increased dramatically. Tons of articles have been written discussing the commodification of women’s bodies. According to Carter and Weaver (2003), a bulk of today’s advertisements demonstrate women figures “as buttocks, thighs, legs, breasts, facial skin”. Women deal with daily practices leading to sexual objectification because of media exposure. As media targets women’s body parts to satisfy men and their pleasure. (Fredrickson and Roberts, 1997). The two have experimented the objectification concluded a theory to show how objectification causes mental health problems to females indirectly. The theory gives evidence to the findings stating mental health problems are caused sometimes through rape or sexual assaults. Yet, at times, problems are caused through self-objectification. It leads to several negative behavioral repercussions including an increase in anxiety about one’s own body or appearance. This anxiety might introduce eating disorders or depression. One must note, generally, that women are always suffering from low self-worth due to the harmful society. Generally, women in advertisements are always displayed in a way where men are …show more content…
Yet, the main dominance of television or in particular, the film industry, is quite evident in the 21st century. Elasmar et al (1999), have discovered that women were under-represented in television shows in the 1990s where they were viewed as having lower status positions than men. Tiggerman and Pickering (1996) have conducted a research claiming that television causes an initiative in teenage girls to be thin due to their body dissatisfaction. The research results were based on a survey completed by girls and calculating their BMI. Yet, the focus is the type of programs that girls watch in general. Females tend to watch movies or sports that cause such discomfort. Borzekowski et al (2000) and Botta (1999) have also organized an investigation on young girls later to come up with the same conclusions. Young girls tend to be disturbed by their look and have issues with their body images. Usually, most girls would compare themselves to those in television and tend to act in an unhealthy way. Television screens usually present females in an unpleasant, disturbing way. Moreover, Females are shown in different ways including housewives, mothers, or desired sexual objects. Within, women must act in a way where they are viewed upon their sexual appeal, physical appearance, or romantic success. Women are always also viewed as passive and emotionally
Such an action causes constrains in women’s willingness …show more content…
Women are misrepresented despite feminists’ trials of adjusting the views interpreted. With the increase of technology use, the capacity of women experiences has increased dramatically. Tons of articles have been written discussing the commodification of women’s bodies. According to Carter and Weaver (2003), a bulk of today’s advertisements demonstrate women figures “as buttocks, thighs, legs, breasts, facial skin”. Women deal with daily practices leading to sexual objectification because of media exposure. As media targets women’s body parts to satisfy men and their pleasure. (Fredrickson and Roberts, 1997). The two have experimented the objectification concluded a theory to show how objectification causes mental health problems to females indirectly. The theory gives evidence to the findings stating mental health problems are caused sometimes through rape or sexual assaults. Yet, at times, problems are caused through self-objectification. It leads to several negative behavioral repercussions including an increase in anxiety about one’s own body or appearance. This anxiety might introduce eating disorders or depression. One must note, generally, that women are always suffering from low self-worth due to the harmful society. Generally, women in advertisements are always displayed in a way where men are …show more content…
Yet, the main dominance of television or in particular, the film industry, is quite evident in the 21st century. Elasmar et al (1999), have discovered that women were under-represented in television shows in the 1990s where they were viewed as having lower status positions than men. Tiggerman and Pickering (1996) have conducted a research claiming that television causes an initiative in teenage girls to be thin due to their body dissatisfaction. The research results were based on a survey completed by girls and calculating their BMI. Yet, the focus is the type of programs that girls watch in general. Females tend to watch movies or sports that cause such discomfort. Borzekowski et al (2000) and Botta (1999) have also organized an investigation on young girls later to come up with the same conclusions. Young girls tend to be disturbed by their look and have issues with their body images. Usually, most girls would compare themselves to those in television and tend to act in an unhealthy way. Television screens usually present females in an unpleasant, disturbing way. Moreover, Females are shown in different ways including housewives, mothers, or desired sexual objects. Within, women must act in a way where they are viewed upon their sexual appeal, physical appearance, or romantic success. Women are always also viewed as passive and emotionally