The Media and Women

Media has a lot of influence on a lot of things that people do. The media tells groups of people how they should act or be and sometimes they are unrealistic or unsafe. The media portrays women most of the time in very unrealistic ways and as objects many times. Women are often seen as sexual objects when advertising things for men and women and it tells women from a young that they are supposed to be sexy as opposed to smart and beautiful. It is also portrayed that skinnier women are more desirable and women and young girls go to great lengths to be skinny and it will probably lead to an unhealthy lifestyle. Women are also portrayed through the media to be seen as vulnerable and are silenced in a sense but it’s sexy to be this way. Women are rarely seen as men are. Men are usually portrayed as the strong, overpowering, smart, intelligent and they body doesn’t sell products the same way a women’s body sells products. A lot when women’s bodies are being advertised the focus is one a part of the body like the boobs or butt and now they are not even entire person they have just been reduced to a body part which is now looked at as an object. Even after a lot of women are aware of what the media does and how it is unrealistic it’s so embedded in our lives that a lot women will refuse to be different because they want to found attractive because they think that what the media is portraying is attractive. There was an episode on the on the Tyra Banks show where little girls were asked if they would rather be seen as pretty or sexy and they said sexy. With little girls thinking that they have to be sexy its kind of like them setting themselves up for less than their full potential.