Gender Stereotypes In The Media Essay

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The way media displays gender stereotypes affects the development of children. Children grow up watching television and listening to music. These factors lead children to act and behave a certain way in what is displayed. For example, if a show demonstrates a young girl acting dumb in her class, a young female viewer may believe she is dumb since it is how her gender is displayed. Furthermore, these gender stereotypes in the media can lead to identity crises, lower self-esteem, and issues in relationships. Thus, children should be educated on gender stereotypes that exist by family and peers while others as a society try to omit these stereotypes.
Gender stereotypes starts back when Elvis Presley, an American icon that sang and acted ("the king"), performed his signature move thrusting his pelvis. According to "'Shake It Baby, Shake It': Media Preferences, Sexual Attitudes and Gender Stereotypes Among Adolescents", the performance of Elvis was seen …show more content…

For example, in The Harms of Crime Media: Essays on the Perpetuation of Racism, Sexism and Class Stereotypes discuss the issue with gender and school shootings stating, "However, gender-oriented dialogue will never be integrated into the media’s discourse about this issue if the media do not even recognize school shootings as a gender-specific problem — one that is perpetrated almost exclusively by boys and young men"(Bissler & Conners 54). Today school shootings are a huge problem in the United States and is a problem because of the media showing most of these school shooters to be male can be a motive for it. Clearly, one should not state that all men are potential "school shooters", but to bring awareness that the gender bias can influence the youth. Gender bias meaning to be in favor of a certain gender. Gender stereotypes in the media lead children to the discussions based on what is

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