HOW THE INEQUALITY OF WOMEN IMPACTS OUR SOCIETY
I 'm sure everybody is aware of over-used advertisements that use gorgeous, sun kissed women on the front of billboards, magazines and also video games. Women are blatantly used as the face of advertisements all over the world. Unrealistic expectations are then placed upon women and young girls to fulfil these images, when in reality many of these advertisements have been photoshopped, rendered and edited to the satisfaction of the publisher. Many of these magazines and video game characters show drastically increased sizes of different body parts, again making the unrealistic, and frankly impossible, expectations on women very obvious. In some of these pictures, we can see women positioned in very revealing and suggestive poses, which misleads people believing that is perfectly acceptable …show more content…
The sexualisation can lead to a self-awareness of their own bodies, which can further lead to a depression and even eating disorders, which severely impact upon children and teenagers ' lives. Sexualisation is defined as when a person 's value comes from his or her sexual appeal or behaviour, and when somebody is portrayed as a sex object. Many of these sexual images are steadily becoming more popular in the media, the images themselves are becoming close pornographic in content. Advertisements for clothing, perfume, and even cars are seen featuring women in degrading poses, and even some ads have gone so far as to include disturbing images that reflect acts of violence and sexual assault against women. This should not be allowed to be viewed in public and by impressionable minds of younger children. Although, I fear that it has reached a point where the media is too far gone and it is now seen as normal. It would refuse to go back to the use of more appropriate
I 'm sure everybody is aware of over-used advertisements that use gorgeous, sun kissed women on the front of billboards, magazines and also video games. Women are blatantly used as the face of advertisements all over the world. Unrealistic expectations are then placed upon women and young girls to fulfil these images, when in reality many of these advertisements have been photoshopped, rendered and edited to the satisfaction of the publisher. Many of these magazines and video game characters show drastically increased sizes of different body parts, again making the unrealistic, and frankly impossible, expectations on women very obvious. In some of these pictures, we can see women positioned in very revealing and suggestive poses, which misleads people believing that is perfectly acceptable …show more content…
The sexualisation can lead to a self-awareness of their own bodies, which can further lead to a depression and even eating disorders, which severely impact upon children and teenagers ' lives. Sexualisation is defined as when a person 's value comes from his or her sexual appeal or behaviour, and when somebody is portrayed as a sex object. Many of these sexual images are steadily becoming more popular in the media, the images themselves are becoming close pornographic in content. Advertisements for clothing, perfume, and even cars are seen featuring women in degrading poses, and even some ads have gone so far as to include disturbing images that reflect acts of violence and sexual assault against women. This should not be allowed to be viewed in public and by impressionable minds of younger children. Although, I fear that it has reached a point where the media is too far gone and it is now seen as normal. It would refuse to go back to the use of more appropriate