Blog 2. Women in the media.

After watching Miss Representation by Jennifer Siebel Newsom today in class it made me realise so much more about how the media portrays women. It open my eyes to some many differnet things one of these was as simple as disney characters, disney characters are ment to be a high light of your child hood but this documentary left me in compelte shock when they said that majority of the female charcters are wearing very little clothing for example:

These images set off a bad example right from the start. Not only does the media portray women like this in childrens films but also adult films where the women is basically a sex object. Watching this documentary showed me how women in movies are almost always lower than men, this happens when the man fights off everyone for the women showing she is incapable, the man is practically alsways the boss unless it is in films like the Devil Wears Prada, when yes a women is the boss but she is then put out to be a horrible person and goes on to explain how she has given up everything like her family and so on all so she can be the best. The media puts women in to a category of being very dependant on others when really that is not the case at all.

 

Im looking forward to completing this documentary as it is really making me more awear of what the media is doing.

Blog 1. Stereotypes and the media.

A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing: "sexual and racial stereotypes".
For example, we stereotype by seeing someone either in person or on the TV and within 30 seconds of looking at them we judge them by either what they are wearing, what skin colour they are, what they are doing ect. I think we do this to put people into categories to tell ourselves if we will get long with them or not, also I think it's a way of trying to understand something by putting into a context we understand. It can be a tool to relate to people if used in the right way. I don't think people stereotype to be mean or nasty, but if someone looks or acts for instance dresses a certain way, you stereotype them into what you have heard about that type of person. It may not be true, but if you are wearing all black and you have black hair and black eyeliner most likely you are a goth. In my opinion I also believe that the media plays a huge roll in the way we stereotype people as the media portrays people in different ways stereotyping them to give us a better understanding into their lives, so that they don't have to have a huge lead up in explaining what that character it like. For example, when there is a person driving a flash expensive car we automatically assume that character is wealthy, or when a character is a man that is on a couch, overweight, drinking beer and eating rubbish food we think that he obviously must be very lazy ect.