Gender Stereotypes In The Media's Role Of Gender Roles

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Many things can contribute to portraying boys and girls differently and sometimes wrongfully. Between media and words or phrases, they can all discriminate another role of gender. In doing so, many corporations have used gender portraying as a tool for advertisements and other useful techniques. Media, advertisement, and phrases all provide creditability towards portrayals of certain gender roles.
Media is one of the most influential ways to control people’s minds. It can either be good or bad for your brain thoughts. Media portrays women as beautiful elegant women who stay at home all day in a beautiful neighborhood and an amazing house. She then greets her children and husband in the morning with a nice fulfilling meal and the children and husband go to school and work. The mom then cleans and cooks all day and makes an elaborate dinner where her whole family eats and discusses their day. That would be an awesome way of looking at it, but not all of that is true. “70% of women work and provide for their family as do their husbands” (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics). It is a proven fact that the more children watch TV, the more likely they create an image of this “fantasy” world the media portrays. Girls are taught to always be preoccupied with beauty, make up, and jewelry. This is creating an image in their head that it is normal to be obsessed with those types of things. Also, boys are taught to be sport junkies who get dirty and play video games all day. They then grow up thinking it is right to do those activities daily, and if they don’t, they consider themselves outsiders. “In everything from advertising, television programming, newspaper and magazines, to comic books, popular music, film and video games, women and girls ...

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Words or phrases are also ways to get to a man. They are generally crude remarks that question a man’s manliness. Phrases like “grow a pair”, is directly toward a man’s manliness. That phrase questions if he is a man or not. In that case, the people telling him this, they are basically calling him a girl. They are saying that he needs to man up and do whatever they are talking about because a regular man would do it, so you must not be that much of a man.
Men and women are always going to compared and contrasted against each other. Many different sources show and portray gender roles like media, advertisement and words or phrases. They all specify toward one gender and are mastered techniques used through marketing and entertainment to benefit their product and production.

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