Sexism In The Media

Sexism in the media

By Sherry Bates

Sexuality - Average American views 3000 advertisements

per day

- This amounts to 3 years of a persons life.

- They not only sell products, they sell :Sexuality

Love Romance Success And

Self Image

Sexuality

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Boys & men rape women every 2 minutes in the U.S.

Body Cropping

“Woman’s bodies continue to be dismembered in advertising. Over and over again just one part of the body is used to sell products, which is one of the most dehumanizing thing you can do to someone. Not only is she a thing, but just one part of that thing is focused on.”

Jean Kilbourne

It turns woman’s bodies into objects

by focusing on one part of the body

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Turning women into objects is the first step towards justifying violence against women

Sex as a tool to get what they want.

Hypersexual messages

Self Esteem plummets.

“Women are constantly turned into things, into objects. This has a very serious consequence.

It creates a climate in which there is wide spread violence against a women. Women are seen as things, objects, and turning a human being into a thing is first step toward justifying violence.”

Jean Kilbourne

Objectification

Women are turned into things, objects

Part of a cultural climate in which women are seen as things, object

Turning a women into an object is the 1st

step toward justifying violence

Now normal to use makeup to resemble women who have

been bruised and battered

Violence

Thinness and Beauty

“ In the last two decades, we have developed a national cult of thinness. What is considered beautiful has become slimmer and slimmer. Dieting and dissatisfaction with bodies have become normal.”

Jean Kilbourne

4 out of 5 women are dissatisfied with their

bodies.

Almost ½ of American women are on a diet

5% of women look like this!

5-10 million struggling with serious eating

disorders.

Happiness

is not

obtained

by having a

perfect

body

Eating has become a moral issue

• Americans spend $36 billion dollars on diet supplies.

• Words such as “guilt” and “sin” are used to sell food.

• 95% of dieters will regain the weight they lost within 5 years.

Magazines filled with articles on rich foods and recipes and how to lose weight

Sexualization of Teenagers

Mainstream media have increasingly traded in the sexualization of young girls and teenagers.

This start at a young age, when parents give their daughters Barbie dolls.

Barbie are sex symbols

Promotes a Fantasy World

Teens are Increasingly sexualized in

advertisements.

SEXUALIZATION

Ideal beauty is within the body,

Not on the outside.

Remember you are Beautiful.

Credits for Photos• http://www.maomag.com/mm07.barbie.editorial.1.htm

• http://www.dietacalorie.com/dimagrire/P.....html#

• http://picasaweb.google.com/RevickyDietr....013490

• http://www.doubleviking.com/hotties/v/16....g.html

• http://www.dieta-calorie.com/dimagrire/P.....html# • http://picasaweb.google.com/RevickyDietr....021218

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• http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles/57559/projects/265351/575591247646292.jpg

• http://www.photographyserved.com/Gallery....168187

• http://makethelogobigger.blogspot.com/2007/04/blast-fro....t.html • http://www.flickr.com/photos/smiteme/366418444/

Photo credits cont.• http://www.flickr.com/photos/smiteme/366418447/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/robyn-gallagher/240452178/

• http://fashioncopious.typepad.com/fashioncopious/models/page/19/ • http://fashioncopious.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategoriz

ed/2008/05/16/d.jpg

• http://picasaweb.google.com/RevickyDietrich/TuEpy2008#5....013490 • http://lookbook.nu/look/186889-Those-Purple-Nights

• http://lookbook.nu/look/182968-Sunny-days • http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://shikinka.....01.jpg • http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view?back=http://....a3qdle

Photo Credits cont.• http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view?back=http://....4veosq • http://www.dieta-calorie.com/dimagrire/Per-dimagrire-ve.....html# • http://www.dieta-calorie.com/dimagrire/Per-dimagrire-ve.....html#

• http://www.etoday.ru/2008/09/charlize-theron-elle-vanity-fair.php • http://www.doubleviking.com/hotties/v/16603.jpg.html

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Race, Ethnicity, Gender Studies Class And Multimedia Applications

BySherry Bates