Women are willing to participate in practices that oppress them because they want power. This paper will compare the practices that oppress women through media and raunch culture in correlation with factual evidence Levy has taken from historic studies. Through this careful examination the evidence will reveal how the idea of empowerment is complicated through racial and gender stereotypes of the female identity. Female Chauvinist Pigs, which complicate gender stereotypes, use raunch culture in order to gain empowerment. Female Chauvinist Pigs are women who sexually only objectify other women and themselves.
Intentionally or otherwise, entertainment condones violent behavior and downplays its significance. Modern entertainment lays sex and violence on dangerously thick. By excusing brutality and equating promiscuity to beauty, it distorts the moral values of society. Additionally, it encourages a personally dangerous lifestyle. STDs, fighting fatalities and injuries, and jail time are real threats to those who choose to live in the false grandeur of a Hollywood life.
Popular Torture Viewer discretion is advised. In Anne-Marie Cusacs article “Watching Torture in Prime Time” she discloses the truth behind Fox Channel’s hit show “24” and it’s use of torture as method of entertainment. The media has become a huge part of our lives for a source of learning, entertainment and communication. Popular media needs to be limited to the context, since much of the information it is unreliable. Exposing violence in the media teaches bad morals and is not supported by the greater good of society.
It is necessary to take a closer look at whether or not violence in the media really is responsible for this development and then to examine what censorship may entail before taking such a far-reaching decision. Many concerned people, ranging from worried parents through to reputable psychologists, deplore the ever-present nature of violence in the media, claiming that this is the reason why people are increasingly prepared to commit violent acts. They argue that violence is being propagated as normal or even entertaining. Violence is in the newspapers, on the news, in film plots and in cartoons. Violence is a source of laughter in children's programs; films present it as staple fare; it is served as pseudo-information in sensation-hungry newspapers and on reality TV; and it is even glorified by some musicians in their lyrics and performances.
A negative effect of reality TV on society is that people lose sense of what’s realistic and acceptable & they start to mimic actors. The purpose of a reality TV show is to see what the participant’s reactions in certain scenarios are. This creates a connection for the audience with the show and its stars because viewers believe that what they are watching is “reality”, since the participants are “normal and everyday” people just like them. The audience tends to start thinking, acting, and feeling like the show’s stars, and therefore people lose their own sense of critical thinking and their real emotions in the process. For example although the stars are not given scripts, the directors and producers of the shows have the legal right to alter
TV’s Effect: Helpful or Harmful? Media is often deemed the scapegoat for all of humanity’s problems; whether it’s obesity, a paucity of morals, people having fallow minds, and most of all, violence. Violence is defined as a behavior using physical force that is meant to hurt, injure, or kill someone or something. Over the years there have been numerous studies about how television can effect a person’s personality and levels of aggression. The studies set out to demonstrate how “awful” violence on television is to the human mind, yet there are some who assert that some of the shows with violence have good morals behind them.
Unfortunately, many of today’s television programs are violent. So does TV influence kids that violence, drugs, alcohol and sex are ok? How much violence, drug references, alcohol usage, and sex references does the average American child come across? How much of this do they take in? Hundreds of studies have found that children and teenagers that watch television may: • Become “immune” or numb to the horror of violence • Gradually accept violence as a way to solve problems • Imitate the violence they observe on television; and • Identify with certain characters, victims and/or victimizers Also, Extensive viewing of television violence by children causes greater aggressiveness.
Younger generations are mimicking what they see in movies and television shows, while forgetting to do important tasks, such as focusing on schooling. It is obvious that a dreadful trend is developing within our country. A dangerous message is being sent out by pop culture and those influenced by the media are wasting away into a mind state of pure stupidity, because stupidity is what is being promoted. There are some cases where being intelligent and independent with one’s thoughts have not been a key factor to becoming successful, the cases are rare but it is a possibility. Skoble’s reasoning for this uncommon situation is that the individual has either stole to reach their achievements or attained them by inheritance (412).
Many people attribute the increase in violent youth to the increase of violence in the media. There is a common belief that television, films and video games are to be blamed for making children deem that violence is not only acceptable, but a necessary way of solving conflict. Some blockbuster movies that top the charts tend to be action-packed, such as the Terminator in 1984 or films about superheroes that save the day by destroying the villains. Superman, Batman and Spiderman are the perfect examples. The youth are then influenced by observing these behaviours and mimicking the actions of these so-called heroes.
Reality Television: How Have They Changed Television Viewing Habits? Pamela Parker English Composition II Prof: Erica Ellsworth February 4, 2013 Reality Television has affected the moral fiber of our society dramatically. It portrays negative manners toward our younger generation, but ultimately it simulates the entire audience in some perspective. In today’s society Reality programs have become such a fad for American television serving an important part of people everyday life. A brief definition of reality television can be detailed in many ways, but basically its real life situations being displayed on television, which are also considered good money makers for the producers as well as the actors.