The Truth About Media’s Misrepresentation of Women and Girls
Women and young girls throughout the years have faced many false and unrealistic media misrepresentations, which have been on the rise in past decades. In response to Killing Us Softly, our culture’s understanding of what is feminine and what is masculine are teaching women and girls that their appearance matters more than their intellectual abilities, and that everyone else's needs come before their own. Women and girls often face false illustrations of what it means to be a woman in the media such as being overly emotional, extremely talkative, unrealistically thin, incapable of producing the same performance as male colleagues in the workforce, and often seen as sex objects, or objectified.
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Media misrepresentations cause atrocious consequences such as eating disorders, body dis-morphia, anxiety, and depression. According to Dawn Szymanski and Stacy Henning (2006), "a path analysis revealed that self-objectification decreased with age and led to habitual body monitoring, which led to a reduced sense of flow, greater body shame, and greater appearance anxiety. Less flow, greater body shame, and greater appearance anxiety led to depression" (45). The more women and girls view women in the media as being sex objects, such as the advertisements Carl's Jr. tries to pull off of women skimply dressed and being sexy with a hamburger, increases the chances of them getting depression, anxiety, and developing an eating disorder. According to Dr. Adams (2014), "Interestingly enough, both men and women when exposed to idealized media images of their own gender, immediately afterwards report a lowering of body satisfaction and lowering of body
Women and young girls throughout the years have faced many false and unrealistic media misrepresentations, which have been on the rise in past decades. In response to Killing Us Softly, our culture’s understanding of what is feminine and what is masculine are teaching women and girls that their appearance matters more than their intellectual abilities, and that everyone else's needs come before their own. Women and girls often face false illustrations of what it means to be a woman in the media such as being overly emotional, extremely talkative, unrealistically thin, incapable of producing the same performance as male colleagues in the workforce, and often seen as sex objects, or objectified.
In this day and age the mass media reaches many viewers, and targets a variety of groups, …show more content…
Media misrepresentations cause atrocious consequences such as eating disorders, body dis-morphia, anxiety, and depression. According to Dawn Szymanski and Stacy Henning (2006), "a path analysis revealed that self-objectification decreased with age and led to habitual body monitoring, which led to a reduced sense of flow, greater body shame, and greater appearance anxiety. Less flow, greater body shame, and greater appearance anxiety led to depression" (45). The more women and girls view women in the media as being sex objects, such as the advertisements Carl's Jr. tries to pull off of women skimply dressed and being sexy with a hamburger, increases the chances of them getting depression, anxiety, and developing an eating disorder. According to Dr. Adams (2014), "Interestingly enough, both men and women when exposed to idealized media images of their own gender, immediately afterwards report a lowering of body satisfaction and lowering of body