Applying this, I see everyday how girls try to make themselves appear to up to the standards that have been created by media. The problem with this is that girls change the way that beauty should perceived. I personally think that beauty can be seen within anyone and that no one person or group can define what beauty is. There is a problem with this because in today's society, there are groups that make girls think that beauty means doing one thing or another. It could be wearing certain clothing, or having their body being a certain shape. Not everyone can fit the same body type as the way that media makes girls think is true beauty. The media controls the way girls think, which I think is wrong. There is too much pressure on girls to be this certain way that they look past how they can look beautiful in their own way. It's like a crime to steal a women's beauty with a superficial appearance of beauty.
Connecting to this is how men objectify women. They don't care about the deeper feelings that women have and how they can be more than their surface level. This goes hand and hand with how girls make themselves look a certain because that's what has been told to them to be beautiful. Men see women as objects and that their main purpose is to make babies. There is an under representation of women in all fields in society because men control the society.
I have seen this objectification in my life and saw it recently in school. At a sports presentation, there were boys who were heckling one of the speakers who was explaining that when someone listens to rap, it causes them to objectify women. Then one of the boys yelled that women are objects, and I immediately realized how close to me that this reality of objectification is. Everywhere, boys are growing up and thinking that they can see girls as objects because they hear this message from music. Its really sad to know that this thought is accepted by people, but I have seen how real it is.
A picture of Victoria Secret models, one example of how media shapes how women and girls should look.
Every type of media including music objectifies women and as young impressionable minds see that, they begin to do the same exact thing. Even though music does contribute to this mindset, there are a lot of factors that causes boys to start objectifying women. It is a daily thing we see at school, at work, and even on the news. I hope as time goes on, we manage to solve this ongoing issue.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about how widespread the objectification of women is, seeing it so often both in real life and in forms of media. Many men and boys objectify women because it was what they were taught to do, whether by media or from others. Unfortunately, this idea of objectification also connects another idea and stereotype: that women cannot or should not do anything meaningful, except for housework. Under this thinking, people see women only as objects to serve men.
ReplyDeleteWe have to, as a society, reveal the negative impacts these views have, so that people will stop the objectification of women.
I completely agree that this way of thought for everyone to have about women fitting a particular standard of "attractiveness" is a totally wrong way of judging beauty and of how many of the males in today's society have been taught to objectify women. I sincerely hope that more and more people teach their children that objectifying anyone one is not okay in the slightest and that the mindset will go away soon.
ReplyDeleteThis is something that the general public needs to become more informed about and people on a whole need to assess their consumption of media and consciously pick out the messages that as shown above, objectify women. It is important that we as a society see men and women in the same ways because society cannot advance itself when half the population is seen as inferior because of external anatomy.
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