Media Stereotypes

The media is a powerful mean of socialization. The media encourage and facilitates mental constructs in the way people think. In particular, the media is extremely influential in presenting us with images of what men and women are or should be. I will focus on four ways in which the media represents cultural stereotypes of men and women. First, one of the most typical stereotype in the media, is that women are sex object. Notably sexual portrayals of woman pervade in music videos, advertising and television shows. Second, the media has encourage and promoted the notion that woman should be extremely thin. Magazines show women with unrealistic and impossible “perfect” bodies, which very often are digitally altered. Third, the majority of