Women: Depictions Of Women In The Media

Tyria Wickliff

Kathy Hayes

College Writing 101 D

27 September 2017

Depictions of Women In the Media The media plays a major role on how some women view themselves in real life. They start to see whats accepted and whats not through society which causes them to mimic what they see women doing in the media. Those young women who are displeased with their appearance most likely can trace those feelings back to images they’ve seen in the media whether on television, social media sites, magazines, blogs, etc. These images mess up some young women’s views of their own identity. The media should attempt to provide positive examples for adolescent girls and depict women on television in more realistic ways, should stop reinforcing negative stereotypes

Women in the media are almost always in drama on reality television shows, some of which are Love and Hip Hop, Basketball Wives and Bad Girls Club. And if it's not drama that you hear about women in the media involved in, then it's something to do with a woman dealing with infidelities and staying. And then young girls get the image that it's okay to be cheated on and happens they are just supposed to take the guy back instead of showing women in the media who get cheated on and leave the person. The most recent example of this is when an actress LaLa Anthony, who is married to a basketball player Carmelo Anthony was exposed for having affairs, but she went back and it was just accepted and made to look at as ‘okay’. There should also be more shows or representations in the media of women who are actually being productive instead of just fighting. Women should be represented as more than the standard stereotypical characters that are generally

The images that the mass media flood young women with indicates that the television has become a source for negative understanding of gender roles among young women. As it has been shown, the media should attempt to provide more positive examples for adolescent girls, depict women on television in more realistic ways, should stop reinforcing negative stereotypes of women, and stop portraying women as sex objects in advertising. Instead, the media should show more women who dress appropriately, are respected and demand respect and have goals and are confident with how they are and don't see a need to change their appearance to fit society’s description of what a woman should look like or