Diver: Female Role Models

This causes women and especially young girls to see themselves and use their bodies as objects. The sexualization of women is apparent in all aspects of media, but I will be focusing on music, advertisement, and film. In our society, women are portrayed as highly sexualized beings that evoke feelings of fantasy and desire that are shown in all aspects of media, but is perhaps most often used in the production of advertisements. For example, we can see the use of women in Axe Deodorant ads. In the Axe ads there is a male model that is accompanied by an attractive female, who seems to be attracted to the male simply because of his deodorant.

Women wishing for various acts from their partners can have trouble to convince them to participate, the level of vulnerability that comes with sexual encounters is a window of opportunity for women to convince their partner of something they would otherwise oppose. Lucius offers an example when the two are suddenly yearning for each other and “... rushed naked together in Bacchic fury; and when I was nearly worn out by the natural consummation of my desire, she tempted me to make love to her as though she were a boy…” (pp.66-67) The two pulling off their clothes shows the exposure of their vulnerability to one another. Lucius then says that he is completely worn out from the experience, but Fotis convinces him to do more. Her actions imply that she was not worn out, but wanted more. She takes advantage of his weariness to manipulate him into an action outside of the typical routine.

In terms of males, they would begin to be more attracted to the women who the see in the media as opposed to other females who does not look like the women in the media. The young males would grow up to believe that it is okay to view all women in such a sexualized way. Also, if they don’t fit the standard that the media upholds, they wouldn’t be willing to give other females a change. As for young females this not only affects them in their sports career but it also has a major effect on their personal life. Because of the way the media has portrayed women those especially in sports young female athletes would begin self-evaluations to be like they females they see in the media to be recognized.

For every positive female role model, two negative ones can be found” (Lavin 97). Women in comics portray a sexualized representation of the female body, with a strong focus on women as sexual objects rather than women. The trend of objecticifty women in comics has continued since the first superheroine Wonder Woman was first introduced in comics because it is profitable and it is

The study of intellectual powers starts between two sexes, with men simply claiming more education and rights in society. The documentary, Miss Representation explores how media’s often degrading the portrayals of women. Jane Fonda said, “Society is toxic to young girls”, in relation most advertising discriminates women. Majority of the time media is used to make women look weak, it usually contradicts gender portrayal guidelines, based on the sexuality, authority, violence, and language content. I personally think that all of this is true, media reinforces the gender stereotype that men are always looking to attract women; and women are merely the objects looking to get caught.

By Ariel Levy’s definition, “female chauvinism” and “raunch culture” describe women who believe men are inferior and women objectifying other women and themselves, respectively. While females, to a certain extent, have always and will always be objectified by the media, it has not become more pervasive in recent years. If anything, the sexualization and objectification of women has been mediated due to advancements in gender equality. There has been a gradual switch in cultural expectations of women from codependent lady who needs a strong man to take care of her to competent woman who can take care of herself. This role transformation, while seemingly so, is not a kick in the ribs to men.

The author reveals that a woman's search for identity is complicated by over-sexualization, toughened by the doubt of others, and completed through her mental perseverance. Firstly, the author represents how a women’s search for identity is complicated by the sexual references directed to Cheryl within the novel. Cheryl encounters many different people on her journey and while so many of the people she meets are good and have good intentions, the

In the 1950s women on TV and in the household were supposed to take care of all domestic work and leave important decisions about their future to their husbands. Many women took issue with this doctrine and by the time the turbulent year of 1968 happened the “Women’s Lib” movement started to gain support for more freedom in women’s lives. Once this happened women had independence from men and any other impediments, but in modern TV shows the narrative is about the current problem of how women live without slipping back into the lifestyles of the 1950s. Throughout the years of women on television there have been shows that demeaned their place in American culture, but there have also always been shows instilled with feminist undertones (Mittell 336). Television today has many models of strong females, like the shows that Shonda Rimes produces, but it stills need to continually look forward and not back on the role of women in American

Many songs in the rap genre have an air of violence or sexism against women. Some of the artists who create this music sing about having sex with women, the bodies of women, violence against women, or the inability of a woman to be on her own. Women who listen to this music may find themselves believing what is said, and gaining an implicit bias against other women or men. They might begin to consider other women as ‘sluts,’ ‘whores,’ or ‘gold diggers,’ and men as ‘sexist pigs’ or ‘perverts.’ Also, when women believe what is said about them in any type of media, they may start to become somewhat like the women described in that media. The problem here is that women are not always like this, and may not want to be, but they start to think that it is normal and acceptable.

The milkshake stands for a woman’s sex appeal. From a sociological standpoint, today’s media’s sexualization of females is spreading like wildfire, and making this type of perception into a norm—the idea that women should feel the need to act “sexy” in order to attract

480-481). The other girls said similar things on this topic. On sexual awareness, the girls already were aware how the way one dresses changes how boys perceive a girl. They were even able to perceive the hierocracy of rappers talking extremely low of women in their songs but having supposedly healthy relationships with

At the end of World War I and World War II, after women had taken over male jobs while fighting, men returned but women wanted to keep the jobs they had obtained when the war had ended (Stoneham). Women of the wars had gained lots of independence, but when the 1950s came around women lost it and became more domestic. The women of the 1950s returned back to the idea of being required to work at home and that they had no place in society. But 1950s women were more than just a passive link between working women of the war and political activists in the 1960s, the 1950s gave women the drive and motivation to be as strong in society that they are today. (Holt).