Women Must Be Perfect by Bradis McGrif

Bradis McGriff

Sex And Love

Soci 174

Mitra Rokni

December 4, 2006

Women Must Be Perfect

Women Must Be Perfect

In Society today women are portrayed all less than equal to men, not only by society, but by the mass media as well. Women are looked down upon in society and are viewed as sexual beings. In the following essay I am going to examine how the process of women is brought down starts at a very young age. From the cartoons that young girls grow up watching, to the toys that they play with, women are brought up thinking and feeling as I they have to walk, talk, and look a certain way. Not only in the United States, but in countries all around the world. Here is a better look at the global situation between women, their sexuality, and life. I am a male but I am going to give you a perspective of women in the media and their sexuality.

Gender is the psychological characteristics and social categories that are created by human culture. (Webster’s) Doing gender is the concept that humans express their gender when they interact with one another. Messages about how a male or female is supposed to carry themselves come from many different places in the society that we live in today. Schools, parents, and friends and especially religion can influence a person. Another major factor that influences millions of vulnerable females and males is television. Not only does the television teach each sex how to act, it also shows how one sex should expect the other sex to act. In the current television broadcasting stereotypical behavior goes from adult shows that can be found on expensive cable packages, to cartoons that young children watch. In this broadcasting range, females are portrayed as motherly, passive and innocent, sex objects, or they are overlooked completely or seen as unimportant entities.

Stereotyping