Gender Stereotypes And Women In Social Media

Everytime you look at a magazine or a picture on social media or even a threatening hashtag, and feel insecure about yourself, just know you are not alone. People feel this way all the time when on social media. Even in the 80s people felt this way, in a survey done in the 1980s by www.medicaldaily.com, women told the magazine they felt too fat, were unhappy with their body, and they worried a lot about looking fat or “bulgy.” 54% of women ages 18-40 were unhappy with their bodies. This is a 13 percent jump from 1984 to now. The jump is all part of how much more social media is in play right now. 78% of the people in America use social media today(www.statista.com). Unlike, people in the 80s that didn’t use social media allot. But, this is not just for women, men feel this way too. 33 percent of men said that they are also unhappy with their bodies. This all plays a part on how both men and women have become insecure with their bodies and how social media makes people feel bad about themselves, especially in today’s world.

They make people think that there is a way to be the “best”. For men it could be the male models; for girls it could be the women in bikinis. An example is there is a whole segment that is all about the “perfect” man. It’s called The Sexiest Man Alive. This discriminates against the people with no abs or no v- lines/ no visual abdominal muscles. The Magazine that published this, People’s Magazine, use photoshop all of the time as well as: Times Magazine, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Elle, ect. They use photoshop to make there pictures look better or to make the models exactly like they want them to. They don't ask permission from the models or celebrities. As a result, MANY celebrities have called out magazines for using photoshop way too heavily on them. According to an article in Cosmopolitan Magazine some of the celebrities are: Kerry Washington, Zendaya, Lorde, and Ashley