Gender Stereotypes In Pretty Hurts By Beyonce

I decided to research gender stereotypes after studying “Pretty Hurts” by Beyonce. The writer raises the issue of how the media tells young women how to act and look if they want to be seen as “perfect”. This made me think about how girls all over the world are constantly trying to be seen as “perfect” and the lengths they go to better themselves. To find out more about how this applies to the real world, I decided to do my research report on this. My hypothesis is: “In today 's society woman are only judged by appearance, not by brains or personality”. I broke this down into three/four key questions primarily,
What is causing today 's society to think like this?
How are girls reacting to these messages?
What can we do to change the minds of young women who follow this idea of perfect?
What is causing today 's society to think like this?

Text one. According to the song “Pretty Hurts” by Beyonce her lyrics explain how young women are trapped in the mindset that they need to meet this expectation of beauty that the media holds. We see this when she says, “Mama said you 're a pretty girl. What 's in …show more content…
“Getting Real” by Melinda Tankard Reist” adds to this by explaining how researchers and psychologists have found that women are being affected because of how they are portrayed on the internet. This leaves women feeling ashamed of themselves because they don 't look like the media 's ideal women. We see then when it says “Researchers and psychologists have found out that how the media portrays women does affect women. Women also need to know that how thin beautiful and sexy they are is not a measure of their value”. An example of this is when we are told that “self-objectification involves the overvaluation of shape and appearance shows that self-objectification and perfectionism can result in women submitting their bodies to constant surveillance, constantly comparing themselves to media images and ending up feeling intensely ashamed of their own