Social Media Affecting Women

Media: Affecting Women “Advertising contributes to people’s attitudes about gender, sex, and violence,” states Jean Kilbourne in her film, Killing us Softly. Women, men, and even children are all greatly affected by the media, and this is exactly why everyone should care about what is being portrayed in ads. Many schools do not have sex education and parents have a hard time discussing it with their children, so that leaves the media to inform them. The media can be dangerous when informing children about sex, gender, and sexuality because media today often forms women into objects and sexualizes them, which is creating an environment where violence against women is acceptable. In this paper I argue that media can perpetuate stereotypes and

Images in the media are impacting discriminatory views about women. A perfect woman nowadays is suppose to be thin, tall, tan, pretty, and sexy. Except, so much technology goes into the making of this “perfect” woman, that she actually becomes unrealistic. Though, there are women who try their best to be as much like this unrealistic model as they can be, because this model is considered beautiful. A number of women focus on losing weight, styling their hair, putting on make-up, and trying to look their best every day, to feel pretty. Now, very few women feel good in their bodies, causing some of them to make drastic changes to themselves. Some changes include eating disorders, cutting themselves, and suicide. Moreover, men actually get the idea that women are supposed to worry about their looks all the time, which can also lead to harmful things women do to their bodies. From the film Miss Representation, statistics show that 65% of women have eating disorders and 17% are cutting themselves. More importantly depression has doubled between 2000 and

While growing up, both men and women are learning through media that men are supposed to be smarter, stronger, and make more money than women. Now realistically, there are many times when a man notices a woman is better than him in some way, and that can cause some men to get upset. The reason being, that they are convinced they’re not pursuing masculine “qualities.” The outcome for their anger is taken out on women, because then they are perceived as more powerful. According to the film Miss Representation, 1 in 6 women are survivors of rape or attempted rape, 25% of women in the U.S are abused by a partner during their lifetime, and 15% of rape survivors are under the age of