She outlined three key actions that could effectively diminish the sheer amount of sexual assaults that happen on college campuses every day. She first asks that we simple change our conversation. Whether we mean them or not, our words can have a detrimental effect on the perception of women in society. The power of words is vast and just by changing the way we speak about others can influence the way we see eachother: not as objects, but as human beings. Neff briefly spoke about the recording of Donald Trump bragging about his inappropriate advances towards women. At one point he said, “When you’re a star, they let you do it.” Since the tapes were released, several women have come forward accusing Donald Trump of sexual assault, dating back at least two decades. Because of the release of these tapes, the conversation surrounding sexual assault has increased tenfold.…
A 43-year-old woman pretends to be 30 years old and marries a younger man who doesn’t know her true age.…
“Miss Representation” is a documentary film written, directed, and produced in 2011 by Jennier Siebel Newsom, a filmmaker, an actress, and an advocate for women. The film focuses on how the American women have been wrongly portrayed by the media; hence, it results in the gender inequality, the lack of female in politics, and women’s misperception about their identity. The targeted audience of this film is all American people, who are convinced to change their mind about stereotypes of women. Jennier effectively convinces the audience that the mainstream media has mainly contributed to the under-representation of women through the use of statements claimed by highly educated, experienced cast members, emotional appeals to its target audience,…
The removal of the Bill Cosby statue is just one stepping stone in the list of bad news involving this celebrated comedian. It has come to light through reports from over two dozen women that he assaulted them. He admitted contributing false responses and denials to serious allegations when questioned about them. While he continually voiced his opinion by brushing the allegations under the rug, taking the assault on his character lightly there is now proof that his actions weren’t pure or morally proper when it came to young women he once worked with.…
There is a fine line drawn between superiority and suppressiveness. Although, together the adjectives are terrifying, these words describe a man who for decades hid his misconduct towards women. This is just one of many stories that has publicly unfolded and revealed the hideous truth behind a man with power in the film industry. Since the article written by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, published in The New York Times, actresses and models have come forward; sharing their own horrific encounters with Harvey Weinstein. Their experiences have highlighted the importance of confronting men who take advantage of their power and manipulate people to keep them quiet. It is injustice for anyone to use their superiority to intentionally hurt others…
‘What we watch on the screen could and should be interpreted as bearing a latent,…
Firstly, Hollywood do have responsibility to avoid stereotyping ethnicity characters because it creates inequality. Although Hollywood produce great movies and have great actors let not forget that not always Hollywood gives equal opportunity to other ethnicity. For example in the YouTube video “Yellow Faces”, it is more than clear that Hollywood are not equal to different ethnicity. Avatar casting in Hollywood was producing Air bender casting it stated, “Caucasian or any other ethnicity” which it is clearly they are looking for whites not another ethnicity. If the Avatar script is written by Asians why Hollywood do not give an opportunity to Asians. It is not right to have all the actors white they should at least give the ethnicity a chance…
In the article “Clinton, Trump, and Sexism” by New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof, the author makes the argument that feminism is becoming more acceptable while sexism is a fading characteristic of our modern day society. Kristof proves his claim through the scope of politics by analyzing the Democratic and Republican candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.In addition, the author states that early in her career Clinton was criticized for having feminist ideals that were often opposed in the late twentieth century. Nextly, Kristof comments that Hillary Clinton is no stranger to criticism as she has endured ongoing verbal attacks even continuing into her candidacy of 2008 and now of 2016. Although she is still commonly chastised for…
A video consisting in a conversation between Donald Trump and Billy Bush in 2005 showing Donald Trump brag about his ability to sexually assault women because of his stardom has resurfaced. While many people are dismissing Donald Trump’s comments as ‘locker room talk’ there are others who believe comments as disrespectful as his are the source of the problem. Donald Trump and Billy Bush’s conversation helped uncover the enormous amount of sexism that still exists in today's society. Many people would agree that Donald Trump’s comments regarding women reflect women's progress, but in reality the way people are reacting to his comments is a reflection on women's progress. However, regardless of the reaction to Donald Trump’s comments, many people…
Hollywood is amongst the top in power of the media empire in the United States, the productions that come out, become believed representations of the audiences that watch them, bringing down many that are shown in those productions. With audiences that are more than majority a darker color, than what are represented in Hollywood films, it brings to attention just how much of a problem it comes be. Minorities should be just part of the Hollywood creation, holding a social responsibility to derail from creating unrealistic stereotypes of ethnic characters that pigeonhole them, due to reasons of not having enough diversity in films and TV shows, create unwelcome clichés, and whitewashing over others cultures.…
About-Face tries to change the way that young women and girls view themselves. Additionally, they try to stop the way that women are stereotypically portrayed in the media. Moreover, they take sexist and chauvinist messages about women and girls in the media and turn them into positive and empowering messages to women and girls. About-Face also tries to boost girls’ self-esteem and self-image by promoting self-acceptance and self-love. They also try to educate companies about how harmful certain messages in the media can be when they stereotype women and only promote a certain type of beauty ideal. Furthermore, About-Face are big advocates of media-literacy education for women, girls, and companies. They also offer workshops to help girls improve their self-esteem and their outward image of themselves.…
Many will argue that movies starring women don’t sell. Disney has been proving them wrong by making more female-centered films, including the animated hits Frozen and Inside Out and the “live-action” Maleficent, Tomorrowland, Cinderella and Beauty and the…
By evaluating the various structures and its functionality it provides, the function of gender contributes to the stability of our society. Specifically gender roles assign the responsibilities of women and men. In social role theory the gender stereotypes arise from historical occupations such as men being the breadwinner and women being the homemaker. In order to be in harmony with this perspective it is that women and men become active participants of these gender stereotypes in the workforce (Rudman & Phelan, 2010, p. 192). Stereotypes are learnt through the socialization process and influence stereotypical characteristics and roles. Interestingly enough Rudman & Phelan (2010) suggest that women exposed to non-traditional gender occupations,…
Staying true to oneself is a concept that most people continuously struggle with as they grow up. From the moment we are born, we are assigned a gender role based on our biological sex. We are then expected to conform to these sets of “rules,” these so called gender norms, that tell us how we should or should not act based on our sex. I believe that our society definitely exaggerates the stereotypical male and female behaviors not only in the United States, but also around the world. We see these stereotypes portrayed and reinforced everywhere, especially in the media. According to the documentary, Miss Representation, “American teenagers spend 31 hours a week watching TV, 17 hours a week listening to music, 3 hours a week watching movies,…
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This project required me to be in constant conversation with a lot of people from within DAIICT as well as outside. I would like to thank First and foremost, I would like to thank my mentor, Professor G.N Devy, for his guidance. It was his constant encouragement and trust in my efforts which pushed me to work harder when I almost caved in to self doubt. Indeed, having a mentor who believes in your work is a huge moral boost and without him, I would not have seen the end of this project.…