Why Is Censorship Important To Women's Rights?

Society portrays women as stereotypical models of idealistic standards on how they should look and act like. Music videos expose women as sexual objects and inferior to men. Video games are a form in which media promotes and spreads the misogynistic ideal. Television shows exploit women as sexual objects. Television shows, video games, and music videos symbolize women as sexual objects causing no inspiration and anti-awareness toward women rights.

Many people believe that the media helps develop awareness and inspiration toward women rights. The media provides censorship in order to offer the security of women. The government subject’s websites and written blogs to censorship in order to suppress words, images and ideas that offend others.

Censorship is providing an equality for the genders by blocking ideas that hurt or suppress the society. This impacts the media because it does not allow for people to see it and adaptive to seeing situation like women being put inferior to men. Censorship regulation, especially in the internet, can keep the people, particularly the children, from exposure to pornographic materials and racial discrimination. The internet is a source of information, including certain sensitive issues like racism and violence. Not having access to these things, whether in print or online, can protect them from being victims of sexual abuse and racism and being perpetrators themselves.

Public awareness campaigns and other interventions delivered via television, radio, newspapers and other mass media can be effective for altering attitudes towards gender norms. The most successful are those that seek to understand their target audience and engage with its members to develop content. Social media tools have helped female victims to share their experiences of violence with other victims, creating a space to exchange knowledge and information on their rights, legal processes and welfare services. Fortunately, the media also provides a variety of opportunities to resist against harmful representations of women and girls. All over the world, survivors of violence and their allies are creating films, essays, zines and blogs, and taking advantage of social media and tools like online petitions, to change a media landscape that traditionally marginalizes their voices. Only about half of domestic violence incidents are reported to police. DC coalition against domestic violence article Domestic Violence Facts states, “African-American women are more likely than others to report their victimization to police. The most common reasons for not reporting domestic violence to police are that victims view the incident as a personal or private matter, they fear retaliation from their abuser, and they do not believe that police will do anything about the incident.” This proves that the societies are ill