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Stereotypes: Similarities Between Men And Women

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Looking at the images in chapter 2 before even reading the next chapter, questions began to formulate in my mind. Why are they all featuring and focusing on women? Why are they mostly nudes or partial nudes? Why are so many turned away or looking down? None of them appear to be happy. They all feel very negative, seductive and exposing. What is going on with these women? Why are they all so similar across different mediums and even magazines, ads, and papers, to paintings? I couldn’t help but feel sorry for these women, so openly exposed and all crammed together in the expanse of new pages. The beautiful woman in the long elegant dress with train, caught my eye the most. She was so happy and gorgeous yet, one man was holding her back as he stepped on her dress and was completely unaware of her plight. All these women felt completely objectified and ignored. It was hard to look at them knowing how they were being used, yet how they were invisible at the same time, just a body, not an individual. …show more content…

Men often exude their power and “manhood” over others and take pride in the amount of power they have. For women it says that women expresses what can or cannot be done to her, which is usually directed at men. I have a problem with this because often time’s things we suggest via clothing at attitude can be misinterpreted in many ways. Wearing popular women’s clothing for me is a way to fit in and not be abused by peers, however, a guy seeing me dressed like every other girl may assume that means I’m up for “typical college girl things” like “hooking-up”, “getting wasted”, or “random make-out sessions” but I’m most definitely not! If others interpret everything about me based on my clothes and attitude, which is just me trying to stay anonymous, then it’s clear that I am not in control of the messages, but the men are in control as they get to interpret

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