miss representation

In the media woman are most commonly portrayed as sexual objects.Through the way they dress to the way they conduct themselves, directors will force woman to display themselves as sexual objects whose purpose is the pleasure of men as well as setting the example for other woman that this is all that they should be doing.
They are represented as damsels who require men to be their hero or the man to provide for them financially as well as in terms of approval.
The media can also be deceiving as woman may be given a protagonist role and are supposedly a hero, however they may still be victims of sexualisation. Across all media platforms woman are objectified, and there are few examples where woman are enabled to genuinely oppose this. It can be seen that in news there are attempts to empower woman by letting them report the serious news. However they are still judged on their appearance and how they conduct themselves.
In reality TV woman are unanimously represented as bitchy and catty.
In the media men are represented as heroes and strong. They are always capable and independent and are rarely questioned like woman would be.
After WW2 the media was responsible for empowering men again and trying to re-teach woman that they should be back in the household. The media used TV advertising to sell commodities that woman rushed to buy and use in their household without realising that they were actually being put back into the form of society that men wanted them to be.

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