Because women are sometimes stereotyped as the weaker sex, they become disadvantaged and don’t share many of the privileges men are given. This is why feminism is such an important matter today. Feminism is a broad social movement that strives for equality for women and seeks to end of sexism in all forms (Topics in Feminism). However, negative attitudes toward feminism have continued to exist. Feminists are often stereotyped as angry, man-hating, unattractive women who scream absurdly about their political views.
The author makes it clear that the men think she is not worthy of respect, and believe she is simply ‘jail bait’. Additionally, she is referred to as bitch, poison, a rattrap, good-lookin’, and purty. So while she may be attractive, it simply serves to make the men more suspicious of her, thinking she has an agenda against them. Women were viewed as not real people, simply temptations or a source of pleasure. This can partly be blamed on the fact that many of the itinerant workers only knew women from the ‘cat-house’.
The term ‘tart’ has connotations of someone who is unfaithful, and this would cause the reader to distrust Curley’s wife as a character. Steinbeck gives the reader the impression that she is portrayed as a villain as the workers did not have nice things to say about her. We are encouraged to dislike her without actually her being present or doing anything in the story. Steinbeck also uses light and darkness to portray attitudes towards Curley’s wife. An example of this is when Curley’s wife first appears in the bunkhouse; both Lennie and George notice that the rectangle of sunshine is cut off.
Whether men do it to feel more powerful than women or to just purely increase the interests of others, using women and making them look like “toys” is not ethical but rather embarrassing. Furthermore, River argues on how there sort of lyrics against women do not create any sort of issue for the music industry; men and women as well. She compares that if such lyrics or graphics contained discrimination towards things other than women, such as Nazis and African Americans, the response from the public would be different. Rivers mentions, “I always find myself annoyed when “intellectual” men dismiss violence against women with a yawn as if it were beneath the dignity to notice,” wanting for this sort of disrespect to be terminated and for more people to do something about it so that it will no longer be tolerated. In addition, this sort of disrespect and violence towards women is unfortunately seen on TV, making it accessible for children and teenagers of today to be exposed to this sort of violence.
Since the Athenian rights and regulations were made for men, the women had few privileges and almost no legal rights. In fact the male foreigner had more privileges then the local woman (Euripides p. 694). Medea only sought for the rights of everyone else and because of that she was considered different and was therefore avoided by others. Because men were above women, Medea knew she had to rise above the norm in order to get exactly what she wanted, so she struck out in manners not normal of women and was feared by many. This is the reason for her distress and the tragic ending that followed.
Chekov begins his tale of the affair between Dmitry and Anna from the beginning. The reader is able to see that Dmitry’s perspective of women is not favorable at the beginning. He tends to view women as inferior and Anna as a game. Dmitry “always spoke ill of women, and when they were talked of in his presence used to call them the “inferior race”” (205). In contrast, Oates begins her version of the tale midway through the relationship.
However the traditional role of femininity that was enforced upon women by a stringent and somewhat vigorous society was changing and these two texts challenge the traditional role of femininity both directly and indirectly throughout. The lack of communication and action of characters in As I Lay Dying is often conspicuous. As one would expect, this often leads to an obscuring of identity for both the female protagonists alongside males. Addie is scathing of words in particular. For her, they are just a “shape to fill a lack”.
Even though, these images that are being presented are, in fact, unrealistic and unattainable to the majority of the people watching it. So, in an effort to turn out to be identical to these individuals seen in the media, teenagers face an enormous assortment of self-esteem issues, disturbance in eating behavior, and sometimes depression. This is because; during their regular disclosure to the media, they think as if society has set the standard for good looks, and if they cannot live up to these principles, then they are not beautiful. They critic themselves by the media’s standards and compare themselves to others as they endeavor for fresh looks. In magazines, the messages portrayed by the media are blatantly signifying that one’s body should be without faults.
Obese teenagers may be hesitant to socialize with their peers since most people this age are self conscious and will likely make fun of the overweight teenager to make them feel better. People also have the tendency to view fat people as lazy and gluttonous, which might not always be
Yet, the trend that is fostered by media is not good for impressionable girls and may cause confusion as it pertains to sexual identity. Media promotes any sort of sexual misconduct in respect to women and it also reports on weight gains or losses with startling frequency. Recently, Jennifer Love Hewitt was ostracized for being overweight and there were even circling rumors that she was pregnant. While she did sport expected curves, she is clearly thin by any standard. The media loves to criticize models and actresses for being either too thin or too heavy and in reality that is