Sex, Women, and the Media

Inspired by today's presentation, I found this very interesting article:
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/women_and_girls/women_sex.cfm

"The pressure put on women through ads, television, film and new media to be sexually attractive—and sexually active—is profound. " The article explores how sex is so apparent in the media. She argues that all of this sex in the media makes sex more trivial and uniform. "We are offered a pseudo-sexuality that makes it far more difficult to discover our own unique and authentic sexuality." The article talks about how women are objectified in advertisements and children's media outlits. Women in video games/cartoons: 38% wearing sparse clothes, 23% showing cleavage, 31% showing thighs, 31% exposing midriffs, and 15% showing their butts. Women in t.v. shows are less often shown at work, and most often their story lines revolve around relationships and talking about men. The article also talks about how some advertisements show women saying no, but clearly meaning yes.

I thought this related a lot to what we've been discussing in class.