Introduction The following report will be investigating abusive relationships in high school. throughout this report one will find what characteristics make a highschool girl more likely to be in an abusive relationship. The age group that was studied is ages 13-18 females. This report is important because abuse happens everyday, everyone has experienced some sort of abuse or know someone who has, to bring awareness to the problem and teach people to know the signs of abuse. Limitations A survey was conducted to confirm the following information. The survey has given to twelve to thirteen girls in grades nine, ten, eleven, and 12 totaling 50 highschool girls. The limitations of this survey include the following: untruthful answers, Grade …show more content…
According to the film Miss Representation women only direct seven percent and write thirteen percent of the top two hundred and fifty films and only make up three percent of the five-hundred CEOs in the filmmaking business. There are many men who see women as sex objects that are catty and manipulative. Men make up ninety-seven percent of CEOs in the filmmaking business that is probably the reason why women shown like sex objects in movies. Second, is the way society objectifies women. The word objectifies is defined as “to degrade to the status of a mere object” says Wikipedia and that is exactly what society has done to women. When looking at advertisements of products even made by women one will see young models that are underweight wearing little to no clothing trying to sell something like makeup. Women make up 85 percent of televised consumer purchasing power. Women of all ages see these advertisements of the underweight, tall, barely clothed women. Females see that as beauty making them thinks that the makeup will make them just as “beautiful’ as the women in the ad. The effect of this problem is millions of anorexic women thinking they need pound of make up trying to live up to the expectation of today's societies. Third is the loss of power among women in today's society. According to unwomne.org in America there are …show more content…
First eating disorders are becoming more and more frequent as social media is being used more. Mirasol.com states, women between nineteen and thirty-two that use the top eleven social media sites have a 2.2 percent greater chance of having an eating disorder. The cause of this is young girls seeing ads, TV shows, and being on social media. The idea of a perfect body has changed drastically. From the perfect body going from Marilyn Monroe who had curves to models now size zero bodies that are clearly unrealistic for almost all women today. The effect of this is 10 million women struggling with anorexia. Thirteen million women binge eating, and females ages fifteen to twenty-four are twelve times more likely to die from an eating disorder than all other causes of death. Second, abuse of drugs and alcohol. Statistics Canada states seventy-three percent of teens girls who drink say that do it to take their mind off “the real world”. When young girls and women use alcohol and drugs they are more likely to be taken advantage of. The date rape drug is a great example of young women getting used by men. The date rape drug comes in many different forms, the most common being a small pill. When dropping a pill in a person’s drink they become unconscious. This allows men to pretty much do whatever they
This is most prominently noticed in the female modeling industry in which companies advertise women who set an impossible standard for regular females to emulate. With slim bodies and “perfect” faces, these female models are splashed all across American shopping malls and internet ads. In our consumerist culture, “objectifying women has been the primary target of countless brands, companies and corporations in order to sell their products much more easily” (Turriago 2). Constant sighting of these females across various media sways the average American into envisioning this “perfect” girl and what she should look like. This sets impossible standards for almost all women to meet since most companies use applications such as Photoshop to make these models look much better than how they look in reality.
were no data regarding the perpetration of intimate partner violence during adolescence which could lead to an overestimation of the correlation between victimization in adolescence and perpetration in adulthood. The final limitation is the study did not examine the within-person changes in intimate partner violence from one wave to the next. Summary Both cross-sectional and longitudinal methods can be used to accurately obtain and analyze data about intimate partner violence.
Females are told to shut up and look pretty for the camera. It is so common that Hollywood thinks it is acceptable to portray women like objects, but it does acceptable to treat women like things for men to use because it does not respect women nor does it empower women. Women are being treated like objects in movies and shows that allows men to use them for their liking. The constant ads of attractive looking women
The author breaks the topic into five big statements to explain why teen dating violence is just an overstatement. The first statement is looking at commonly Cited numbers is trying to ask if teens violence is really increasing or just something that people are overstating. The author state that teenages females girls have reported being sexually or physically abuse at least once. But a recent survey shows that teen violence have been significantly lower. " Females ages 16-24 are more vulnerable to intimate partner violence than any other age group—at a rate almost triple the national average(Males).
Though studies and experts have shown that there is a correlation between eating disorders and media, many argue against this idea. One author from Something Fishy, a website that gives information on eating disorders, argued that though media can influence dieting, it is not the cause of eating disorders. The author wrote that, “if a young man or woman 's life situation, environment, and/or genetics leave them open to an Eating Disorder (or alcoholism, drug abuse, depression, OCD, etc.), they will still end up in the same place regardless of television or magazines”( Healthcare, Acadia). Though the author brings up an interesting point, other research has proven his statement wrong. In a recent study, Natalia Kaźmierczak, Rafal Patryn, and Antoni Niedzielski studied one hundred people and found that media has an impact on adolescents and “continuous disappointment with the shape and weight of the body makes the respondents undertake challenges of meeting the current requirements of fashion, using restrictive diets, increasing physical effort and complying with the ‘pro-ana’ ideology, irrespective of health consequences.”
Why People Stay In Abusive Relationships Whether a person is male or female, they could still be in an abusive relationship and be scared to leave. “On average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States. During one year, this equates to more than 10 million women and men” (NCADV). If abusive relationships are so damaging, why do people continue to stay is these relationships?
Seeing women in these portrayed stereotypes can be dangerous for the development of a young child as the process of gender socialization begins in early adolescence. Young boys begin to believe that they need to be hypermasculine and that it’s okay to objectify women, while young girls begin to believe that in order to be desired, they must look and act a certain way. In order to change the objectified stereotypes of women, Hollywood needs to make a change and display more women in
The perception of relationships has altered over the years, especially due to society 's idea of what is acceptable to tolerate versus the individuals own moral conduct. Often what is practiced in front of people is mimicked and sought to be a way of "learning". Traditional aspects also influence on what is condoned in a relationship such as the limitation of boundaries. Teenagers, in particular, are part of an abusive relationship and they don’t even realize it. Therefore, teenagers who are in an abusive relationship should be trained to identify and report incidents of dating violence.
Research has provided evidence that people who were subjected to abuse and neglect during their childhood were more likely to become involved in criminal behavior later in life. According to the National Institute of Justice, being a victim of abuse or neglect during childhood is likely to increase the potential of arrest of a juvenile by 59 percent, an adult by 28 percent, and 30 percent for a violent crime (NIJ 2011). Adolescents who were victims of sexual assault are three to five times more likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, be abused again, become dependent on drugs and alcohol, or commit delinquent acts compared to adolescents who were not victimized. Additionally, girls who witnessed violence during childhood are almost
#1. Jacobson and Gottman list several factors that contribute to women staying in abusive relationships. List them, describe and explain them as best you can. In the text the authors talk about some of the main reasons that women stay in these abusive relationships.
When it comes to advertising, especially for fashion and cosmetics, without a doubt, has a tremendous effect on how women see themselves and how they believe they should look in a certain way. Women’s magazines in particular have a great influence on body image that many research has been done and it has come to a conclusion that majority of young women indeed rely heavily on these articles where they value these so called ‘advices’ or ‘tips’ so much compared to other people. It is no surprise that women these days, especially young women, are very conscious about their image. From having the ideal weight to keeping updates on the latest trend in fashion, they really have it all figured out. And some can be very persistent in either achieving or maintaining these things in life.
The main points is: Humans have feeling; Humans have thinking; Humans have social media. Nancy Clark, who wrote for American Fitness, states that “comparing yourself to your friends, and friends of friends, on social media can easily put you in a bad mood, harboring negative thoughts about your body.” It is a quite evident why people go to social media, not all, but many. Many would never admit how social media really affects them mentally and emotionally. The risk factors of social media vs body image are frequently overlooked, npt by a variety of authors writing for International Journal Of Eating Disorders, they constructed and experiment to test out the effects of social media on, specifically, young girls; “Results showed that girls who regularly shared images on social media, relative to those who did not, reported significantly higher overvaluation of shape and weight, body dissatisfaction, dietary restraint, and internalization of the thin
I want to learn, understand, and educate others and myself that an eating disorders in children and adolescents isn’t just caused by a genetic, psychological, and behavioral factors as people have put it out there. The media is the main contributor to eating disorders. The reason why I want to analyze this problem is because eating disorders has been risen and it is due to mainly, social media. We are growing in technology which allows many people to create websites and apps that play a huge role in the user’s lives. For example, Instagram was created in 2010 and 10,000 people downloaded the app in just a matter of an hours.
Americans tend to value thinness while shaming those who are overweight. With the rise of technology and social media, social comparison is ever-present which is culminating a series of issues related to body satisfaction. This combined with limited research on eating disorders in people who don’t fit the white woman persona leads to misdiagnosis and mistreatment of patients. With time spent on social media platforms increasing, the rates of eating disorder is also on the rise, “…respondents who spent more time on Facebook were more likely to display eating disorders, have negative body image, eat in dysfunctional ways, and want to diet” (Comer 2015). With social media being as prevalent as it is, there are countless opportunities for users to compare themselves to fitness models, celebrities, and even their peers, perpetuating issues such as cyber-bullying, body shaming, and ultimately, eating disorders.
Superhero movies such as The Avengers, The Batman, and The X-Men all have pull record breaking box offices on their first week of release, influencing millions upon millions of viewers worldwide. In these movies, women are heavily sexualized; usually being seen as a sex symbol wearing very revealing articles of clothing, acting a certain way to their male counterparts, and talking a certain way that seems very sexually seductive. There is no gender equality in these movies and this is why I believe directors of these superhero movies should stop portraying women as a sex object in there film, since it only influence sexism onto our culture impacting beliefs about gender roles and creating an unrealistic expectation of how women are supposed to look and behave. Many of the female characters in the film are regularly represented wearing outfits that sexualize them in order to garner an interest for male viewers.