Gender Roles In Susan Bordo's Society

In society today looking up the definition of gender role states that it is a set of societal norms dictating what types of behaviors are generally considered acceptable, appropriate or desirable for a person based on their actual or perceived sex. In Susan Bordo’s writings she effectively shows the reader the many façade the media uses women in order to sell their products. The media are the main issue since they’re the ones that are responsible for how a woman should look like.
These aspects and images are imbedded into our minds and women of today strive to get the shapes of the supermodel they see in magazines and what they see on television. Because of this, women who want theses shapes to see themselves as obese and cause young women of today …show more content…
Women are often jealous of other women when they have the body type they want without even trying when they have to eat less for and work out often for. Most women that are used to advertise a product are tall, skinny and very seductive. When analyzing any magazine that have a picture of a woman, they are seen looking away from the camera and the man is directly looking at it, they are shown as sexually submissive and weak while being used as a sexual product as to sell the product/s.
Bordo is a philosopher that focuses on the human body in today’s society and popular culture. Bordo states, many things about women, for example, they should eat less and just cook while the men eat, also that all cultures of men have an idea if what a perfect woman looks like, and women need to be perfect in their look and focus on losing the weight by dieting. Women’s sexuality has always been something that men have been unable to resist. The awareness of the power by women sexual irresistibility continues to develop over time. Men are solely attracted to women who were pure and