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Media Dehumanization Of Women

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Recently media plays an important role in the life of people. Because media have the ability to convey their harmful thoughts and show to the genders that they are weak. Therefore, magazines and television and other types of media are blamed to show that girls without a perfect body and looks are not considered smart and don’t have the capabilities of being a leadership as well. In addition, the media is the single most powerful tool of our disposal, it has the power to educate, effect social change. In addition, girls are shown in media as young and slim and overwhelmingly and conforming to our image of ideal beauty (perfect skin, hair, and alluring gaze.) Therefore, I believe that women are degraded, dehumanized, and marginalized according …show more content…

It clearly sending the message that woman without a perfect body will face failure in their career, because in the video (the dangerous ways ad see woman), photoshop has been used to transform body from skinny body to skinnier and there was an occasion where the actual model was fired because her body wasn’t suitable for the cover page therefore they used photoshop to make her look skinny regardless the picture was looking horrifying after photoshop. However, in some advertisement the body language for a woman and girl remain passive and very different from man body language. For example, the model Kendal Jenner in Calvin Klein advertisement as she was advertising her underwear in a very unsuitable position. And with rise of free editing apps for tablets and computers. media are able to edit, add to and erase So-Called flaws from their pictures. For example, in the same video it shows that how media can change woman picture from old to young in a matter of hours Therefor media has a big hand to showing the girl in very unsatisfying position and …show more content…

For example, in the video (the dangerous ways ad see woman) a little girl is wearing bikini in the ‘’so called’’ boobs and bloomer advertisement. This is clearly shows that how media making little girl very sexy to advertise their products and taking away her childhood life. However, boys are being sexualized as well but in a very different way than girls, they are being encouraged to look at girl’s body and her attraction they are thought to be tough and through the advertisement in media circles they are psychologically stressed to have athletic body as a benchmark for being accepted in the society However as watching the same video, media is advertising sexulazition in a different way for example, Fashion dolls marketed at 6-years old girls that features sexualized clothing, like fishnet stocking, pornography and sexually- explicit pop music videos that features young woman dressed to resemble little girls, the examples are very creepy. Therefore, the most common worries are that girls will learn to view themselves as sex

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