How come if a man attracts a lot of women, he’s awesome, everyone looks up to him, but if a woman attracts a lot of men she’s labeled as a slut? Misogyny. Dictionary.com defines misogyny as hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women. Prejudice against women is extremely common around the world today, even in America in which it claims, “everyone is equal.” Though women currently have more rights than ever, a new way of unbalance is coming into the world. Now, women are being misused and treated as possessions. Over all, misogyny is swaying the equilibrium of gender equality throughout the world because of social standards, society, and the media.
All though social standards have improved greatly since women were only expected to clean around the …show more content…
Rape culture is teaching women to be frightened of men. If a women wears a revealing top or short shorts, they’re “asking to be raped” (How Society Teaches a Man to Abuse Women- A Man’s Perspective). Women always have to be responsible when a man is abusive towards her, which is an example of how society has twisted views of women. When people are taught about teen pregnancy in school health class, the message is most often directed towards the girls (Think Progress). Girls are often taught to stay pure until marriage, however, this message never appears to be as inflicted towards men. Men generally see women as sex icons in today’s society, not a person to love (How Society Teaches a Man to Abuse Women- A Man’s Perspective). Finally, society is changing how girls feel about themselves and making them feel inadequate because of the effects of misogynists. A study of 3000 girls at age nine was proven that many or most were positive and confident. Seven years later the girls were asked the same question and only less than one third of them felt good about themselves (Culp-Ressler). Many of these girls lost their self-confidence due to the way they were treated by men and boys. Lots of people claim that boys struggle with self worth just as much as females do. This has been proven wrong by the same survey taken on 3000 girls, but boys instead. This time, 46 percent of …show more content…
However, they are setting unrealistic goals for themselves. Model, Brittany Vaughn was very smart and athletic as a child, but people always told her how pretty she was. She was told to focus on clothes and makeup more than her grades, eventually she did just that. As she grew up, she realized she should’ve listened to herself rather than others. In the end, she became a model rather than a doctor or scientist like she had wanted to be (Vaughn). Constant talk from family and friends about focusing on unimportant things for her swayed her thoughts. This happens to many girls because numerous people think that looks are all that matter for women. This thought that women need to be perfect and beautiful is coming from the media, mainly models. When a magazine is opened, instantly there are tons of images portraying women as skinny, tall, porcelain skinned barbie dolls. Unrealistic standards are being set for women because of the editing software used on all of modeled photos. The Victoria’s Secret website accidentally published 12 untouched photos of models on their website. They immediately removed them and websites were forced to remove them or else they would be sued (Sauers). This shows how no one is really perfect. Although the clean photos were beautiful, they were not perfect, because no one really is. Therefore no one should have these false envisions of women. In addition, the
All though social standards have improved greatly since women were only expected to clean around the …show more content…
Rape culture is teaching women to be frightened of men. If a women wears a revealing top or short shorts, they’re “asking to be raped” (How Society Teaches a Man to Abuse Women- A Man’s Perspective). Women always have to be responsible when a man is abusive towards her, which is an example of how society has twisted views of women. When people are taught about teen pregnancy in school health class, the message is most often directed towards the girls (Think Progress). Girls are often taught to stay pure until marriage, however, this message never appears to be as inflicted towards men. Men generally see women as sex icons in today’s society, not a person to love (How Society Teaches a Man to Abuse Women- A Man’s Perspective). Finally, society is changing how girls feel about themselves and making them feel inadequate because of the effects of misogynists. A study of 3000 girls at age nine was proven that many or most were positive and confident. Seven years later the girls were asked the same question and only less than one third of them felt good about themselves (Culp-Ressler). Many of these girls lost their self-confidence due to the way they were treated by men and boys. Lots of people claim that boys struggle with self worth just as much as females do. This has been proven wrong by the same survey taken on 3000 girls, but boys instead. This time, 46 percent of …show more content…
However, they are setting unrealistic goals for themselves. Model, Brittany Vaughn was very smart and athletic as a child, but people always told her how pretty she was. She was told to focus on clothes and makeup more than her grades, eventually she did just that. As she grew up, she realized she should’ve listened to herself rather than others. In the end, she became a model rather than a doctor or scientist like she had wanted to be (Vaughn). Constant talk from family and friends about focusing on unimportant things for her swayed her thoughts. This happens to many girls because numerous people think that looks are all that matter for women. This thought that women need to be perfect and beautiful is coming from the media, mainly models. When a magazine is opened, instantly there are tons of images portraying women as skinny, tall, porcelain skinned barbie dolls. Unrealistic standards are being set for women because of the editing software used on all of modeled photos. The Victoria’s Secret website accidentally published 12 untouched photos of models on their website. They immediately removed them and websites were forced to remove them or else they would be sued (Sauers). This shows how no one is really perfect. Although the clean photos were beautiful, they were not perfect, because no one really is. Therefore no one should have these false envisions of women. In addition, the