SUMMARY
This article simplifies the discrimination that women in America
face. Media is used in many ways such as to inform, but one way it has been
used is to dehumanize women by making them aware of their inferiority. Women
are depicted as a representation of sexualization in different forms of media.
Most of the images used of women are altered and fabricated to make a women
appear to be more sexualized or helpless. The article also states “As Susan
Griffin put it in her 1971 essay on the subject, a woman in the United States
is made to feel vulnerable, unable to say that she is “…free of the fear of
rape.” Women are depicted more so as objects instead of human. The women used
in media are often fairly thin and tall. With the average woman body dimensions
not meeting the criteria of the model of course females are to feel inadequate.
ANALYSIS
This article expresses the reasons why I’ve chosen my topic
of media and how it affects women and their beauty. In so many ways media
defines or constructs the definition of beauty. With women in magazines, advertisements,
and modeling there is a window of opportunity for the female race to
dehumanized, over sexualized, and used a construct of beauty on how females should look. It presents the idea that
you have to be thin, wear make-up, dress this type of way, and act thus way to
be classified as beautiful. These are not what the standards should be.
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