Female Stereotypes

“Yesterday’s pornography is today’s mainstream media” (Scott, 2015, n.p.). When looking at mainstream media, it appears as half naked females getting the most likes; rather than those fully covered. Years ago pictures of half-naked females would be seen as pornography, now they are sold to common day person. The issue with this is, due to the evolution of magazines and video games, the view of females started to change. Video games and magazines portray females as sexual objects by sexualizing them.

Magazines portray females as sexual objects; by putting them in clothes or positions to make them look seductive. Magazines show females lay down so their cleavage is exposed or by using seductive facial expressions (Kim & Sagas, 2014, p. 144).

Thus giving further generations of females this same idea and causing them to believe it. When a female looks into sexualized magazines and see a women shown as being perfect it can cause her to want to look that way too. This idea can cause eating disorders due to the fact that most females in magazines seen daily are extremely thin. This could also cause other mental illnesses, such as depression, due to the fact that most of the ways they females look is

When females are characters in video games, they are often more sexualized than males, while still completing the same tasks. They are portrayed with tight clothing and enlarged breasts to make them more visually appealing to the player. It has been shown that in “21% of the games, women were depicted in costumes that revealed at least part of their breast… 13% bared their buttocks, including 8% were fully exposed” (Marcovitz, 2011, Pp. 21-22). By females being half naked or completely naked it sexualizes females; making them look better than what is naturally possible. The females are also rarely the main character of the game, and are sometimes the property of one of the other main characters. They show them as this beyond-achievable sexual object and give false hope to females on what they can achieve. In some sexualized video games the player can “touch” the strippers or prostitutes; gives off the idea that females’ style of dress is what causes rape (Dockterman, 2013, n.p.). People may then believe that if a female is dressed in people's minds as inappropriately she is asking to be