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    Women and the Media

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    with the perception of the “perfect” female. Women have always been seen, and portrayed as a sex symbol, and usually the disobedient one. Dating back to B.C and the story of Adam and Eve, Eve was the naked one who bit into the fruit that god told her was forbidden. Why couldn’t it have been Adam that caused such scandal, and was the cause for destruction, and crime in the world, and not Eve? From the believed beginning of time, to present day, women have really only progressed a small

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    Media enforces the social-cultural standards, which women are required to follow in order to look and behave in a manner that society considers acceptable. Newspapers, commercials, posters, magazines, fliers, reality shows, and cartoons only name a few of our everyday interaction with the media (Scholar, C.2011). However, these standards presented by media send a false perception of women, thus portraying women in a negative and disrespectful manner. Society views woman as mentally, morally, and

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    How Media Affects Women

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    alone. Many women struggle with body image. Rae Smith quotes “There is nothing wrong with your body, but there is a lot wrong with the messages which try to convince you otherwise.” Women feel self-conscious due to the media. The media pressure women to be overly concerned with their bodies. Media affected women significantly.

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    even in the waiting room at a doctor's office. The media offer advertisements with models that are seemingly slim with perfect skin, hair, and teeth. American propaganda leaves most young, adolescent girls between the ages of 5-18 to consider that the complexity of beauty is strict to be thin and perfect, though it is targeted to young adolescents, it does aim towards older female and male age ranges as well. An article states, “While the media attempt to target every person, the level of exposure

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    Media is everywhere. In classrooms, at home, in your pocket, no one can escape the temptation of media. Every little bit of information stems from media. But, all information has two sides to it, one of which media never reports. Women have always been a controversial topic in media. For example women are seen as sex symbols rather than intellectual individuals. Social media and media have targeted women to become a conquest in which reward must be given. For instance, if a man were to sleep around

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    The media is capable of articulating images, ideas, concepts, and principles in order to manipulate people’s brain. Their ideas and concepts are easily identified by the passive and uncritical audience. The opinions of the observers are molded and directed by television (largest social communicator), radio, magazines, internet, and newspapers. The current role of the media creates a reality produced by themselves, thus it is capable of constructs and produces male and female behaviors. As the great

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    by Melanic R. Salome , is about the women’s misrepresentation of in media . Salome considers media as an important tool that affects American women in a negative way. Media has become of paramount interest in our lives, despite the fact that its negative influences on us are increasing at a rapid pace. Media promotes unrealistic and unattainable images that result in depression and dissatisfaction among people. Therefore, media reflects the image of society and the way people think about themselves

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    Media Impact On Women

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    write women as human beings. It’s cartoons we’re making.” - Paul Haggis. This is a quote that was explored in Miss Representation that especially impacts me. The impact of media on women and men is immense. Media shapes the way the genders view each other and themselves and therefore has the power to dictate how humans act, how they feel, and tell them what they want. I feel that with the constant, unregulated bombardment of media demonstrating the unrealistic and unfair treatment of the women, it’s

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    The Media Images Of Women

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    Kelsey Drevyn Dr. S. Dutt WGS 305 16 February 2016 A Small Presence Hiding in the Big Picture: Media Images of Women Even inadvertently, we absorb over 34gbs of data per day on average, according to a recent study by the University of California San Diego (Short, 2012). We spend most of our day consuming media images, whether we mean to or not. Every sign we pass, each magazine we happen to glance at the cover of, our friends’ and strangers’ Instagram posts, and Facebook ads and articles frame a

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    idea of how women should be portrayed in the media. Although the perception of beauty tends to change throughout the decades, the issue we are currently facing is that women are not equally represented in the media. Since the 2000’s, women featured in the magazines, ads, etc. have continually gotten skinnier and it has become common to see their photos edited to the point where the models, themselves, are unrecognizable. Promoting these women sends the message to young girls and women everywhere,

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