In the article, “Controlling your reality” Paige Pfleger states “Reality television can also preserve old fashioned notions about sexual stereotyping. Women are encouraged to fulfill roles as “the slut” and are simultaneously devalued by doing so” sadly these are the types of stereotypes young girls and women grow up with (3). Little girls are told to act a certain way only for society to reject and humiliate them for it. In The Hunger Games Collins makes a point by sexually objectifying Glimmer, a career tribute, because she looks like the stereotype of sexy. In the novel Collins writes, “The girl tribute from District 1, looking provocative in a see-through gold gown…With that flowing blonde hair, emerald green eyes, her body tall and lush… she’s sexy all the way”(125).Collins makes it clear that society has a very specific image of what sexy should look like.
The song, directed to various celebrity women, presents today’s modern woman as scandalous, with an unsung claim of reevaluation of oneself and purity needs to be reintroduced in the media. The band’s lyrics to the song convey a stereotypical Hollywood woman who is nonetheless worthless and disgraceful in her behavior and appearance. In the opening verse of the song, a scene depicting a socialistic woman in revealing clothing with an addiction to cocaine is introduced to the listener. According to lines 5–7 in the lyrics, rehab is where the authorities, or her publicists, have to send her to protect her image (Papa Roach, 2008)1. In the recent decade rehab has been used as a way to fix reputations.
One major concern with advertising messages is the depiction of women and what this depiction implies have somehow created a “frame” for modern women to identify themselves. Alice E. Courtney and Thomas W. Whipple report in their research findings that advertising portrays the majority of female figures as passive, insubordinate wives and mothers who never leave the domestic sphere (25). Over a three decade period, women in advertising were portrayed as “…sexual object, woman as physically beautiful, and woman as dependent on man" (Courtney & Whipple, 9). Depicting women in the role of domestic servant sends the message that idealistic women should desire domestic perfection that can only be achieved with the help of the product in question. In contrast to domestic servant, women are also depicted as sexual figures with a lust
They show a woman weighing herself while becoming skinny and then fat. It also shows various women preparing for surgery on her eyes, boobs, arms, almost everywhere on their bodies. The commercial ends with a group of young girls crossing the street and a message saying, “talk to your daughter before the beauty industry does”. That statement is very powerful and the accuracy of that commercial for girls in this country is scary. Everyday girls are bombarded with advertisements telling them that they are not good enough.
Fey makes choses to talk about the way women are treated in the entertainment industry with a joke on Betty White, which targets both sexism and ageism, which Fey repeatedly addresses, but with a softer approach through the use of humor. When Fey states “Science shows that fertility and movie offers drop off steeply for women after forty” she addresses both her ageing in the entertainment business and the concern that society places on women having a certain number of children by her age, but all centered around a funny tone in order to make her remark sound witty yet strong. The use of comedy made Fey’s argument regarding the negative portrayals of working women in the entertainment
"Negative Effects Media Has on Women- English Media". (YouTube. November 1, 2009. www.youtube.com/negativemediaeffects/enhlish-media ), an inspirational video shows the negative effects that the media has on women by showing the negative female media images. The video explains the frequency of negative media effects by showing the 1950’s celebrity as being a healthy size, and then today’s celebrity as extremely skinny. The video shows how the media constantly bombards us with false images of the perfect woman, showing heartbreaking images of sickly skinny models that became this way because the media told them that they should be skinny-that skinny is beautiful.
She state that her action that night was ‘the worst dating faux pas’ meaning that what she had done was against the idea of a typical male-in-control relationship. Mulvey then establishes her main contention that there are many young and successful women out there who would ‘soften their image’ and conceal their accomplishments to get the perfect husband and increase their chances of marriage. In this article the writer uses a rhetorical question as a way to draw readers towards her contention that women should step up to be in control of
Much of this book can be read as a case study of what the old Hollywood did to its female stars. There are appalling stories of how Hayworth had her hairline reshaped, her hair recolored, her image shaped into the negligee-clad, big-busted sex goddess who graced barracks lockers and nuclear bombs. At no point in Rita Hayworth's life was she allowed control over significant decisions. Even her involvement in projects that truly showcased her talent was motivated by men; a case in point is her fine work in Robert Rossen's underratedfilm They Came to Cordura-a project forced upon her by her fifth husband, producer James Hill. Leaming remarks that during her final days Hayworth spoke very little, except to utter occasional, disconnected phrases, such as the words Leaming uses to close the book: "He used to do that,"
What they wear, is what we want. We feel the need to look exactly how they are depicted to us and this is how models and the media affect body image – the most significant concern in young females in contemporary society. These skinny models project negative and false expectations of what girls are meant to look like at such a young age where their biggest concern should be their education. Beauty is positioned as the paragon of most teenage girls lives, and this is what causes many common problems to evolve around their lives, particularly eating disorders. Luisel Ramos is an example of a particular model who suffered from an eating disorder only wanting to be accepted into the modelling industry.
Tokenism and Women’s Promotion in the Entertainment Business Tokenism is preventing women’s promotion in the entertainment industry. Tokenism in the workplace has been an issue for women ever since women started working in male-dominated jobs. This is also seen in the entertainment industry where it is also a male dominated sector and women are being tokens in expense of their gender and desire to be an artist. But, when women are being chosen for the same roles, the same sound and look, their opportunities for promotion are being prevented tremendously, limiting them to do only certain jobs. Media is how we change the view of the world and when women are constantly generalized and understated as such, not only are the women who are in the entertainment industry are affected, but so is the way the society looks at women is.