HON MEDIA LIT BLOG #4

The media portrays women in many ways, none of which are ever good in this culture. Women, for the most part, are seen almost as objects, or things of beauty, rather than human beings. And it's not good. Many people don't view women as smart, capable beings, and since they don't view them as such, they don't treat them that way.

This creates many problems professionally and psychologically for women. Jobs are harder to come by, and because they aren't seen as mentally competent as men, they get paid less for doing the exact same work. And when women see ads and media that have women in them, they may begin to think the same way.

So now, we have men treating women less than they are, and women believing that it's right. And when school girls see themselves doing better than guys, they dumb themselves down, because that's not how they are supposed to be.

Media's portrayal of women affects everything, and nothing that it affects is good. We set up these images that are impossible to obtain, then expect them to be completed. It doesn't work, and it doesn't make sense.