For Many years sexism has played a huge role in the United States, whether it is in the workplace or in private homes. Seixsm is the discrimation based on sex. Seixsm can be compared to rasicm; in both the differences between the two ( or more) groups are viewed as superior to inferior. An alarming number of women soldiers are being sexually abused by their comrades-in-arms, both at war and at home. This fact has received a fair amount of attention lately from researchers and the press – and deservedly so.But the attention always focuses on the women: where they were when assaulted, their relations with the assailant, the effects on their mental health and careers, whether they are being adequately helped, and so on.
Ashley Sinopoli Marci Eannarino English 111 (TR 1-2:15) Research Paper Female Body Image and The Mass Media Female Body image is a complicated aspect of the self-concept that concerns an individual's perceptions and feelings about their body and physical appearance. Body image discontent affects every woman in some way in today’s culture. The more society pushes the mass media “body image,” the skinny, blonde, beautiful woman, the more female’s will have an even harder time really getting to the “ideal” body image they see in the media, and strife to become. There are many different perspectives that can be used to explain why and how women internalize the thin ideal. Social comparison has become one of the strongest theories as to why women are finding themselves overwhelmed or having trouble getting to the “thin ideal” they see in the media.
The Women’s Movement of the 1960’s, also known as the second wave, may not have been one-hundred percent successful but it made for a good start. This movement made publicly acceptable to talk about women's issues. Because of this movement, many women changed how they viewed themselves and the world around them. Because of organizations such as NOW, WEAL and PCSW, discrimination in the work place on the basis of sex was made
Whether we realize it or not we are constantly surrounded by images of sex; in the media, advertising, movies, and even in schools, sex is everywhere. So it is not uncommon for us when we open a magazine and see images of half naked women and barely legal girls posing provocatively in order to sell a product. In Jean Kilbourne’s article, “Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt” she explains how much women are objectified and dehumanized in advertisements like this. Constantly in the media there are women who are looked up as sex objects rather then actual women. Kilbourne describes how when you depict men or women as sex objects rather
Sex and Young Girls In Kilbourne’s “Two Ways A Woman Can Get Hurt” she speaks extensively about how advertising could have many underlying and shocking meanings when analyzed closer. Some factors that Kilbourne speaks of in her essay allow us to look deeper into the hidden concepts of advertising and show a world of suggestive sex and abuse. Many of the ads allowed us take a closer look at how woman are portrayed as objects to sell a product. I believe that many of underlying factors influence our young girls. Many of the ads today give an image that in order to be happy and satisfied in life you have to be sexual or look sexy to get ahead.
The Exploitation and Misogyny of Women by the media The passing of the Woman's Right Act empowered women to do things that would have once been considered impossible such as, taking part in beauty pageants, modeling in the nude to holding high positions in offices. In hip-hop and advertising Jean Kilbourne and Joan Morgan concur that woman's bodies are being dehumanized, over sexualized and objectified. Consequently, although women have made remarkable progress, their unbridled autonomy and power are being exploited by the media.Hence forth, the explosion of pornography and the mentality that sex sells anything and everything have caused advertising agencies and the music industry to use woman's bodies as the main tool for commercializing and selling their products. Hence, the media uses sexism and violence in advertising to get people’s attention in order to get them to buy their products, and also to obtain free press. In “Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt” Jean Kilbourne believes, that sexism and violence in advertising is systemic and rooted in our culture.
Women in Today’s Media In our everyday lives we are exposed to numerous amounts of advertisements and many of them have some kind of sexual content. Ads are one of the best ways for companies to show their products to the world and also they are the most efficient way to make money. Sports, entertainment, magazines, and bill boards all use ads to sell their products to the world, but for a company to make their ads successful so that people will buy their products, they need to make their ads very appealing and convincing. Women are used in order to sell products to the public and the outside world. Women are dehumanized through the media, which objectifies and degrade women, causing them to end up in abusive marriages, in prison, or in the streets.
20 Oct 2012. . This article it discusses the tragic numbers of people have eating disorders, and how the media’s promotion of an ideal body promotes it. An estimated 8 million Americans currently suffer from eating disorders. The media has glamorized extremely thin women resulting in many young girls feeling inferior. A study published in the Journal of Communication found that high school girls as young as thirteen are affected by the media’s portrayal of ultra-thin models and celebrities.
“The US Justice Department estimated that as of 1998 there were nearly one million incidents of domestic violence per year in the United States.” (Lee and Newton) “Various estimates have put the number of Russian women killed by their husband, partner or a close relative at between 10,000 and 14,000 every year.” (Baczynska) Traditional practices such as; arranged marriages and female genital mutilation that usually end in infections and women or girls go untreated resulting in death. Some countries have a son-preference and women will terminate their pregnancies if the baby is a girl, because sons are preferred. Dowry- related marriages can end in violence, usually death if bride’s family fails to pay the agreed-upon payment for the
Females between the ages of 16 and 26 make up approximately 24 million women as of today (Population clock). This “chick” age bracket represent the group of people that popular media outlets market to that often feature women with bodies that are unattainable for the average woman. These media outlets also focus on what women can do to acquire and please men. The self-esteem of these young girls are also eroding due to the various forms of marketing and advertising tactics they employ because sexy sells. The many celebrities like Miley Cyrus and magazines who all try to portray their idea of a woman, alter and distort their perception of womanhood.