The Problem With Feminism, The Media, And You - 1824 Words

The Problem With Feminism, The Media, and You â€Å"Women accounted for only twenty-nine percent of the speaking roles and all too often, they were primarily there to look decorative - roughly a third involved wearing sexually revealing clothes or being partially naked† (Lenard). The reason this statistic is crucial to this paper is because in this digital age children are mostly influenced by the media, what they see on television, or films, what they hear in the music they listened to, and what they read online on their social media sites, what does it due to them when they see women as simple background characters, or sexualized objects. Even though the media may have become very progressive in this day and age, sexism in the media still†¦show more content†¦Ã¢â‚¬Å"Between 1990 and 1995 only 28.7 percent of speaking parts were women. Similar studies have shown that female speaking parts comprise just twenty-five percent of characters in top films between 1946 and 1955† (Vincent). That is only a quarter o f every part, and how many of those women were just there to be a simple love interest or to appear sexy for the male audience, even though women make up for over half the human population on the planet. What is really worrisome is how this is actually somewhat accurate with women being a political minority, being majorly outnumbered in their workforces In 2012 only six out of the top one-hundred films had a roughly equal male, female cast (Lenard). Now not every movie has to have completely equal casts, but when only six percent do, then there is a problem. This is an actual problem because children are influenced by what they see online or on television. A recent study has shown that watching TV can lower a child s confidence unless that child is a white male (Goldberg). Just think of how the media put all these expectations on children, women have to be like this, boys have to be like this, this is an attractive person, this is not, this is a talent and a useful skill, â€Å"That is something only girls should do come on act like a man†, or â€Å"Oh no child that is not very feminine give it up immediately† . Boys have multiple