Media Studies Culminating: Gender Representations In Society (Sara Thomson)

These days Gender Representations have been portrayed in such a way that Females and Males have specific roles and terms when it comes to relationships, marriages and just their Gender in general.

These days, girls have to look and act a certain way just to get noticed or accepted by media and society itself.

Girls can't be too skinny, but they can't be too overweight, they can't wear make-up but then again  they can't wear too much make-up, they have to wear these EXPENSIVE designer clothes but not so good that they are looking better then the girls more popular than them.

Girls have to do SO MUCH and they have to work SO HARD if they even want to fit in with society's expectations.

Even with Society, they have magazine covers, ads and everything out there and the girls on the cover are almost anorexic or they are, and every girl wants to look like that now because that's the look that the media is showing, but yet if you go to high school or middle school and you have an anorexic problem, it's almost like everybody is looking down on you and they find you disgusting and gross and they say you need to eat this or you need to eat that and you'll never be good enough.

Because of society and it's media advertisements and other things like that, just looking at those girls and trying to be like them causes so many girls to become Depressed, it causes Eating Disorders and it makes them hate themselves to the point where they think that they will NEVER be good enough and often most of the times, that kind of stuff leads to Self-Harm or even Suicide. 

The media and schools and everything has caused girls to feel so less of themselves and it's like no matter what, now, when they look at themselves, all they can see is this Fat, Ugly girl that nobody will ever accept, this girl could be anorexic, but if the wrong words are said than they will STILL see themselves as fat and not worth it.

And I know that is not not just always girls who get the Media hate and feel like this, Guys get it too! and they get it just as bad! sometimes even worse in certain situations. Guys get so much hate on the media as well, in most movies, the guy is portrayed as the tough, emotionally detached, aggressive and the "Man" but what they don't understand in "Reality" Guys are getting it so bad, they get bullied, put down, abused, emotionally hurt and more. 

If a guy is gay then it's almost like the media just denies them as a person all together and they try to do everything that they can to either change their sexual orientation or they try to put them down to the point where they won't show who they truly are to people anymore. The media doesn't want people who are too "different" and :not up to standards" clouding what they want the world to look like for them.

 Often, when men are bullied and put down in a way that makes them uncomfortable, It often makes them turn to violence against loved ones or friends, it makes them drink, smoke, do drugs, or Suicide,
Girls can often react like this too, it's not just the guys, but most often, it is the guys who resort to violence the most but that is because while they are getting emasculated and put down and just getting exposed in public for everybody to see, it really messes them up and it takes away that tough guy act because now everybody knows and it's like they have nothing to be tough for anymore. The only thing they can be tough for is when it comes to fighting their feelings out towards a wall, or a person.

For Guys:

They have to look like this big tough man, men have to be muscular, tall, strong, handsome, workout and be the idle partner for women.

They pretty much have to look like these men:

These are the men that society expects all men to look and act like. they want you to be handsome, strong, and be pretty much "Perfect"


For Girls:
Society REALLY picks on women the most, girls are expected to be Beautiful, Short or Tall, have long blonde hair, nice bright eyes, great body, big butt and a set of big boobs to match, and they expect you to be with a man that is just as good looking,
Since I can remember, girls are almost expected to look like Barbie, they are expected to have the perfect body and face and height that she has and if you don't look close enough to her, then you are rejected and put down until you do.
So many girls have gotten countless amounts of plastic surgery and spent so much money getting their hair done or gotten it longer and spent so much money buying make-up just so that they can be society's definition of "Perfect"

Marilyn Monroe was society's definition of perfect for a while, she was who everybody wanted to be and look like, she was the world's "Sec Figure" she had all the right curves and everything.

Society wants you to look like these women so bad because they want a nice face and body to pay attention to all the time, they want you to be skinny but have nice curves and everything. which is what these woman have. But not every girl looks like that, I know I don't.
Media has made so many men and women question themselves almost daily and when they do it puts them into such a bad position because they feel like they will never look like that no matter what they do,
and they shouldn't have to!
Us women shouldn't have to make sure we have the body of Beyonce just to try and get the right man that society thinks we need. That's not what being a women is about, and Men shouldn't have to work out and make sure they have the perfect body almost to the point where they start doing steroids, just so that they can get the women society thinks that they deserve.

I think that the media has been doing a very intense job on trying to tell people how they should look and how to live their lives and it's ridiculous.
To conclude this assignment, I have found a video of what people on Social Media can do to you and how a lot of people have been dealing with it.

Mother Horrifically Finds Out Just How Bad Social Media Affects Her Son

I hope that this assignment has been somewhat helpful in showing how bad Social Media can be and just how painful and hurtful and destroying it can be. Thank You. :)