the Alarm: Negative Impacts from Sexually Objectifying Women in Media Think about images of women presented in media nowadays‚ how do they look? Sexy‚ young‚ good-looking‚ and attractive: those are the features that images of female share in media‚ and predominantly these images emphasize the sexual-attractiveness of women. One of the most common ways of making such emphasis is by sexually objectifying women. Sexual objectification of women in the media as a prevalent communication phenomenon negatively
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Morris et al. (2014) conducted a series of studies on such. The first involved participants viewing images of pregnant women after priming with death-related essay questions. Participants then answered a questionnaire serving as the operational definition of “literal self-objectification.” The results of the study depicted an increased tendency for women to dehumanize themselves after viewing images associated with feminine reproduction. The second study focused on menstruation and involved
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Sexual objectification is a key component of sexualisation‚ one that is predominantly used in the media. Sexual objectification is when a person‚ a human being is viewed as a thing‚ an object‚ an object of sexual desire and pleasure. The sexualisation of youth carries its own definition. In 2010 the UK psychologist
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The Tale of Genji The Tale of Genji is a classic novel from Japanese literature that revolves around men’s obsession of women. The novel is sometimes hard to follow due to the fact people from the Heian Period in Japan (c. 794-c. 1185) thought it was rude to name people; therefore people are referred to by their rank‚ color of clothing or place they came from instead of their name. People’s names can change throughout the novel due to a change in political status or change in address. (New World
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The concept of a safe space for oppressed groups has existed throughout history. Women in particular have built numerous communities to help and support one another. In The Handmaid’s Tale‚ Margret Atwood explores bathrooms as a safe space for women away from men. The Handmaid’s Tale follows Offred‚ who is the protagonist as well as a Handmaid in Gilead‚ a dystopian society where women are divided and valued only for their ability to fulfill certain roles. These include the ability to reproduce‚
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Throughout the tales‚ from long extensive stories like Lancelot to poems like Lanval‚ women are portrayed differently. From lovers to witches‚ women are given side roles. Male characters are the one who move the plot forward and women just play a part in it. The ladies have no active role in the stories. Most of the tales revolve around men. Women are described as beautiful‚ fair and young. They are constantly complimented on their bodies. Their body shape is explicitly described through the texts
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In “The Wife of Bath’s Tale‚” the knight received a punishment and was rewarded as well for violently raping an innocent girl just because he could not control himself. In the beginning of the tale‚ the knight was selfish and masochistic and clearly wanted to show his power and dominance over the girl by raping her‚ to prove that women could not have control over men. Chaucer states‚ “Hadde in his hous a lusty bacheler‚ that on a day cam rydinge fro river; and happed that‚ allone as she was born
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The once innocent moral tale used to teach little girls a lesson has developed into many convoluted adaptations that apply some of modern societies most problematic issues. Both the Perrault and Grimm version of Little Red Riding Hood both point out the consequences of straying of the path. While Perrault’s Little Red Riding Hood ends with the wolf having eaten the innocent little girl‚ Grimm’s Little Red Cap has a hero who swoops in to save her and grandma. The movie‚ Freeway (1996) directed
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Females have been treated unfairly throughout history. In the past‚ women were not able to speak unless told they could by their husbands‚ and more recently‚ they have faced different pay scales than men in the same job field. Due to perseverance and progressive ideas‚ women have more rights in the twenty-first century than ever before in history‚ but there were numerous women before who did not have access to the same freedoms of women today. What did they wish for the most? The Wife of Bath had monumental
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Fairy tales picture a world filled with magic‚ love and the triumph of the good over the evil. Fairy tales are a window to other worlds where the wildest dreams can come true and the hero always lives happily ever after preferably paired with his loved one. Although some people argue that fairy tales are full of stereotypes‚ filled with frightening monsters and promote racism and sexism I believe that they are wrong because fairy tales provide valuable moral lessons to children‚ teach them other
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