Women In Media

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The media represent that males are supposed to be a powerful and in control over females. The males in the media are portray as the smart, strong, intelligent and mostly entirely in certain ways better than the females portrayed in the media. The males in the media are seemed as that they are the heroes to the females because they entirely always need a male to rescue them from dangers that female has caused. The males represented by the media are portrayed as prince charming towards women and must provide their financial security.

Who benefits/profits from the way women are represented in the media? Who loses? The beauty businesses benefit from the way women are represented in the media. The beauty businesses have a huge amount of worried

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