Social Media Influence On Gender

Social media acts as both as a message and a messenger: all social media platforms have a huge platform from which they are constantly shaping our society. They help explain the stigmas behind those who don't fit traditional molds through the encouraged reinforcement of traditional gender and societal roles that individuals play. Social networks and media sites that enforce gender norms also reestablish what the desirable man and woman should not only act like but look like. This creates a climate where there is an increase in verbal and physical violence against women. We're socialising boys into believing that being a man means being more powerful and in control than women. That's not genetically predestined, that's what media has conditioned