Media’s Effect on Women

Media’s Effect on Women

Since the beginning of media history, it has been empowering and limiting woman in many ways. Some of these ways are how woman today view there own body image, what stereotypes the media puts on women, and how these things affect women’s health. The media has been altering the way everyone see themselves and each other. They can also change the way we dress, look, and even the way we act. The media is the largest source of stereotypical misinformation on earth, and this provokes others to stereotype as well. The media is a great source of role models to all members of society. A great number of media role models provides our society negative with negative habits. All types of media are great for news and entertainment, but it also brings many negative habits to our society, making media a double-blind.

Body image is the way one sees their own body, perhaps not in the mirror but in their own mind’s perception of themselves. Media is constantly trying to alter the way we perceive our own bodies to be, and what we accept as the norm for a perfect body image. This is done by creating near-fictional presentations, thanks to digital image enhancement, that fill the world with what people ‘should look like’. These images themselves can become role models for entire generations, be they an actor, model, sports star or other headlining figure. These images can have a very detrimental impact on a woman‘s self esteem and sense of self worth. The most commonly impacted factor is how a woman compares her own body to that of edited pictures. This factor becomes a serious negative to society once it changes the way anyone sees themselves for the worse. “[Media] bombards women; often with the effect of creating an...

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