Essay on Medias Portrayl Of Women - 620 Words

Media in today’s society is constantly degrading women and sending negative messages about the ways in which women should be treated; women are becoming objectified in the sense that they are seen as objects with little value. The media, which seems to endlessly show women as sexual objects, limits their potential and damages their sense of self worth. More often than not the media depicts the way people go about their daily life. People look at the media to determine how they should dress, act and in some cases even how they should perform sexually. â€Å"†¦there are the fashion magazines that focus on beauty, attracting and satisfying men, self-improvement, and (occasionally) work and politics. Examples are Vogue (emphasizing fashion†¦show more content†¦Just like in the song Sexy Bitch when Akon states â€Å"Im trying to find the words to describe this girl without being disrespectful† many men today are having the same problem. It is not too often that women hear the words beautiful, gorgeous, or lovely, instead they hear hot, sexy, or somkin’. This is shown again in Akon’s song when his whole chorus is â€Å"Damn Yous a sexy bitch, a sexy bitch.† Many music videos have women being â€Å"portrayed as ravenous women who want sex at all times.† (Dreamworlds 3) They send out the me ssage that women are just there as sexual objects and are nothing more than â€Å"females seeking male attention.† (Dreamworlds 3) The music video’s always show women hanging off of men, and doing anything they have to in order to get attention. â€Å"Most music videos are fairly predictable in the ways they sexualize women, sometimes in violent ways. As in movies women are generally present in music videos to be looked at.† (Shaw and Lee, p507) It is examples like these that are damaging to a women’s sense of self worth. Although some women may fall into this trap and accept that they are looked at as sexual objects for men, many will not. It is a disgrace that the media can have such a damaging effect on a women’s sense of self worth. Society as a whole watches these videos and listens to these songs, and if this is the way that society is portraying women, then this is the way women are going to look at themselves. Although the media serves as the centralShow MoreRelatedThe Media s Portrayal Of Asian Americans1218 Words   |  5 Pagestowards another class of people and stereotype them in positive, but mostly negative ways. One population that has played victim to the repercussions of the mass media is Asian Americans, who have been oppressed and deemed a minority by Americans. The media’s portrayal of Asian Americans has had detrimental effects on one’s opportunities, performance, and their perception of the world. The mass media consists of any means of communication that has the ability to reach a large amount of people. The term