How Intagram Is Perpetuating The Beauty Myth

Out of all the articles I looked at and read, the two article I chose that draws me close to my topic would be “How Instagram is Perpetuating the Beauty Myth” and “Chivalry, feminism and the black community “by TheGrio. The article How Instagram is Perpetuating the Beauty Myth is about the fact that instagram really affects women in general about how they look, how they feel about their insecurities, feminine advertising or “Femvertising” which companies use female empowerment to sell women their products. The other being Chivalry, feminism and the black community by TheGrio. This article would be about how manners and chivalry are dead in the society we live in; the article talks about the times of today and how black people are affected by

An example of this would be the statistics the article gives on Instagram being “Instagram is a visual-only social media platform dominated by women, #fashion and brands. 20% of all women use Instagram, as opposed to 15% of men. Women are more likely to connect with brands on Instagram than men. “. This is the way that Instagram deals with the social norms of gender really affects us in our society. I didn’t believe it was such a big deal and until I read this. I also learned that women are targeted with feminine adverting which is femvertising and using the fact the women empowerment movement as a cause to buy products. In the article “Chivalry, feminism and the black community” by TheGrio. I learned that Chivalry originated as the code of conduct associated with knights in the medieval era and that women pay for dates as much as men do now a day instead of how men would pay for the date at dinner. Feminism has legitimized the concept of women’s independence and has been used a shelter from men and the way they handle and control thing. Women, black women in particular are getting more education, jobs and doing their own thing just as men have for thousands of years. Women just demand equality and that’s