Wednesday, 25 February 2015

Gender Representation and Stereotypes in Media

In media gender is represented in very stereotypical ways. Men are represented as being strong, powerful in comparison to women. They are sometimes viewed as wild and viscous creatures in types of media such as aftershave adverts to show off their masculinity. In those types of adverts they show that women cannot resist the men's scent and are usually crawling on top of the men like animals. Even til this day women are still viewed as the weaker gender and they always seem to be treated as a helpless and brainless in media. In films these stereotype representations vary. They usually have individual characters and are not as gender stereotypical. Recent movies have a strong female lead role. For example The Hunger Games which have a brave and smart female main character.
                               
All the movies above have a strong female lead character.
More ways in which characters of certain genders are represented are to certain roles they play, such as
















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