Men and women have a set role in today’s media. Women in particular have been portrayed as stupid, talentless, or even as nothing more than an item or rather a “piece of meat.” When women show up to red carpet events they are asked who or what they are wearing while the men in their same career field are asked the hard thinking questions. This has always been the norm and has never been questioned because society has deemed okay to think of women just as items. In films, very few women are given the role of a main character. Most women are often the supporting characters and even a few of them are taken seriously as directors or producers. Women in the media are portrayed in a dark, demeaning way in contrast to their male counterparts in contexts
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shows like beauty pageants objectify women, and create a homogenous, unachievable ideal of beauty that promotes poor self-image among girls. This way that women are portrayed affects not only them but people who view them. In beauty pageants they are, again, treated as a piece of meat just having them flaunt around and asking them questions expecting answers in 30 seconds. There is no equivalent of this for men because men are not expected to submit to society’s demands to please the audience. There is an obvious amount of misogyny already embedded into our society that we are so numb to how women are treated. As stated in the article, “The focus on a specific female ideal—tall, thin and conventionally beautiful—has long aroused the ire of women 's rights groups, who argue that the objectification of women in that manner denigrates a woman 's sense of integrity.” In the everyday media we often see the objectification of women, in ways that we may not even notice. There is small little hints here and there and tiny jabs at women in things that we watch such as comedy shows, soap operas, or even gossip shows. This subtle hidden misogynistic way has always been there, just that sometimes a couple of shows have been more upfront with …show more content…
There will possibly never be fair representation of women in the media, be it whatever form of media you choose, because that is the way our society has set to doing things. Sadly it does not take one or two people to dismantle this norm we have of representing women in this terrible light in the eye of the
shows like beauty pageants objectify women, and create a homogenous, unachievable ideal of beauty that promotes poor self-image among girls. This way that women are portrayed affects not only them but people who view them. In beauty pageants they are, again, treated as a piece of meat just having them flaunt around and asking them questions expecting answers in 30 seconds. There is no equivalent of this for men because men are not expected to submit to society’s demands to please the audience. There is an obvious amount of misogyny already embedded into our society that we are so numb to how women are treated. As stated in the article, “The focus on a specific female ideal—tall, thin and conventionally beautiful—has long aroused the ire of women 's rights groups, who argue that the objectification of women in that manner denigrates a woman 's sense of integrity.” In the everyday media we often see the objectification of women, in ways that we may not even notice. There is small little hints here and there and tiny jabs at women in things that we watch such as comedy shows, soap operas, or even gossip shows. This subtle hidden misogynistic way has always been there, just that sometimes a couple of shows have been more upfront with …show more content…
There will possibly never be fair representation of women in the media, be it whatever form of media you choose, because that is the way our society has set to doing things. Sadly it does not take one or two people to dismantle this norm we have of representing women in this terrible light in the eye of the