Assigned Entry #5: Media Synthesize

Ever since we have started to analyze media in the everyday life, I have started to pay more close attention to things that are affecting us. The media has a tremendous power on us and many of us don’t even notice it. The media is portraying men and women in wrong ways, and setting up immoral and hurtful stereotypes for us.

Men are often portrayed as the strong, well built, tough, and competitive person. They are either showed as the men with a suit and a tie that is business minded or the male that is ripped, without a shirt showing his desirable body. In commercials and ads men are seen as more powerful and superior than women.

Now when we turn over to the women, welll…. We can say that we have it different. Many of the media show women with beauty, elegance, and with now flaws in their face and body. This might sound like a nice thing to do for women, but instead of helping women the media is hurting many. Almost all of the women you see on these ads and commercial they are edited to look like they look, perfect. That is what the media want you to believe, but this is causing many insecurities in many teenage girls, leading them to take drastic and harmful decisions for their body. They are pressured to look a certain way just because the woman on the ad looks perfect. Becoming bulimic is the road that many teenage girls take.

Now you can see that media is not as good as everyone perceives it to be. Before watching the film Killing us softly 4 and Tough Guise I never realized how harmful media can be and now I have a whole new completely perspective about it. Like the film title states, “Killing us softly” the media is in reality killing us softly by hurting us emotionally and physically.

Unreal images in the media are creating unrealistic standards for both men and women. Unrealistic standards, which many will try to meet but they will get hurt in the journey to accomplish it because they are out of reach.