Woman have always been affected by movies, in a negative way, ever since they were little girls watching “Princess movies” too now-a-day movies that continue to sexualize women. Woman don’t realize how much movies have affected them because they have grown up with them since they were young. Little girls were immensely impacted by Disney movies showing the woman as being inferior and needed a man to save them. As they grew older into their teenage years they slowly got less affected by Disney movies but more from romantic movies. Even though they changed from cartoon romance to “real” romance it still had the same theme; wait for the man of your dreams to sweep you off your feet and don't be independant. And even as they grew into their adult
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Girls learn at such a young age that you have to beautiful and super skinny to have someone love you! That you shouldn’t be independent and that you should wait for a man to come save you. Men were considered the dominant people in these movies, even if the men were awful to the woman like “Beauty in the Beast” Gaston, one of the main characters, is a jerk to everyone and is super confident Belle, the Main character, wants to be with him and says “This is the day your dreams come true.”. Gaston thinks he’s the most important man in the world and everyone wants him. This shows young girls that this is okay. Young girls are very impressionable and when they see all these woman waiting for years and years on end waiting for a man to save her and then marrying him on site! This shows young girls it's okay to just go with whatever the man says! He in charge and you can’t do anything about it. This is a terrible image to display to young girls. “With this said, each movie is not teaching girls how to be independent, strong, loving, educated women.” (2). This article agrees with me that disney movies are not teaching young woman the right ideas. These unrealistic views of beauty on woman help young girls already become self conscious about their appearance and feel the …show more content…
“[Even though women] represent half of the world’s population, only a third of the characters from the movies were women.” (3). Stacy smith, the study’s lead researcher, determined that women are still portrayed in lower roles but are still sexualized and pay way more attention to their appearances. This is very true, and a terrible example set for teenage girls. Girls feel the need to care more about their appearance than their intelligence and this leads to woman forming some type of a disorder. “One study reports that at age thirteen, 53% of American girls are ‘unhappy with their bodies.’ This grows to 78% by the time girls reach seventeen” (4). After plenty of research it shows how much media and movies have affected young girls, and boys, lives. Young women want to be thinner and considered “prettier” so they will be more widely liked. This has lead to woman hating their bodies and hating themselves for who they are. This is incredibly unhealthy, because young women start going on ‘diets’ or start starving themselves to become this unrealistic set of beauty set by the media and movies. “ Mass media's use of such unrealistic models sends an implicit message that in order for a woman to be considered beautiful, she must be unhealthy.” (1). Being unhealthy is not beauty and should never have been considered so, because women are all beautiful
Girls learn at such a young age that you have to beautiful and super skinny to have someone love you! That you shouldn’t be independent and that you should wait for a man to come save you. Men were considered the dominant people in these movies, even if the men were awful to the woman like “Beauty in the Beast” Gaston, one of the main characters, is a jerk to everyone and is super confident Belle, the Main character, wants to be with him and says “This is the day your dreams come true.”. Gaston thinks he’s the most important man in the world and everyone wants him. This shows young girls that this is okay. Young girls are very impressionable and when they see all these woman waiting for years and years on end waiting for a man to save her and then marrying him on site! This shows young girls it's okay to just go with whatever the man says! He in charge and you can’t do anything about it. This is a terrible image to display to young girls. “With this said, each movie is not teaching girls how to be independent, strong, loving, educated women.” (2). This article agrees with me that disney movies are not teaching young woman the right ideas. These unrealistic views of beauty on woman help young girls already become self conscious about their appearance and feel the …show more content…
“[Even though women] represent half of the world’s population, only a third of the characters from the movies were women.” (3). Stacy smith, the study’s lead researcher, determined that women are still portrayed in lower roles but are still sexualized and pay way more attention to their appearances. This is very true, and a terrible example set for teenage girls. Girls feel the need to care more about their appearance than their intelligence and this leads to woman forming some type of a disorder. “One study reports that at age thirteen, 53% of American girls are ‘unhappy with their bodies.’ This grows to 78% by the time girls reach seventeen” (4). After plenty of research it shows how much media and movies have affected young girls, and boys, lives. Young women want to be thinner and considered “prettier” so they will be more widely liked. This has lead to woman hating their bodies and hating themselves for who they are. This is incredibly unhealthy, because young women start going on ‘diets’ or start starving themselves to become this unrealistic set of beauty set by the media and movies. “ Mass media's use of such unrealistic models sends an implicit message that in order for a woman to be considered beautiful, she must be unhealthy.” (1). Being unhealthy is not beauty and should never have been considered so, because women are all beautiful