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In the media today, women are STILL being exploited. You would have thought that in this day and age, being 2014 and all, we would be getting somewhere with the equality between men and women. Wrong. I think we have almost backtracked with regards to how women are being portrayed in the media; with the obsession of the 'perfect image'.
Now, I'm not going to harp on about the existence of Page 3 in The Sun, and how it is demeaning to women. These women choose to expose their bodies, probably in hope of just earning a bit of cash and having their 5 minutes of fame thrown in on top of that. But, with women continuing to actually want to be involved with this - is the worrying thing. Why would you?
Would you want to see a man completely naked as soon as you open your newspaper on the tube with your morning coffee? Page 3 has definitely had it's day, it's been overplayed. I would say, try and move on with times, but that's not exactly true, is it?
It's not even Page 3 that's even the surface of the problem with sexism in the media. Going through numerous articles on tabloids, and the Daily Mail especially - there are constant article titles objectifying women. 'The Sidebar of Shame', on the Daily Mail website just shows numerous amounts of 'celebrities', or 'reality TV stars' showing women either in little clothing, or with ridiculing headlines. Most of which, do not even adhere to actually having any point of being a story at all. They are usually commenting on what they are wearing, or their 'taunt stomach', which seems to be a popular line amongst Daily Mail writers.
'In today's news', The Daily Mail shows an article with the headline: 'Kylie Jenner shares selfie in midriff-baring top as she reveals she is working on a 'surprise commercial' It could be argued, that okay yes, Kylie Jenner, 17, posted the picture, or the 'selfie', but I still believe that Daily Mail take advantage of a young girl who does just post pictures online for attention. Does cares if she is wearing a crop top? No. There is absolutely no story to this article, yet, I wonder how many views it will get?
Furthermore, take this year's 'I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here' contestants. Every. Single. Day. The Daily Mail is filled with articles of the women who have made an appearance on the show. Usually in their bikinis, showing all their readers the infamous 'shower scene'. On one of the articles down below, about Melanie Sykes, the headline describes her talking about her estranged husband, before, obviously, mentioning how she 'strips down to her bikini for yet another sexy shower scene'. How has this got anything to do with the main focus of the article? Or, is this actually the intention? Sykes appears on the 'Sidebar of Shame', with a picture of her in a bikini next to the headline.
Let's have a look down the sidebar of the Daily Mail website; these five articles appear one after the other. Are these stories even worthy of being called journalism?
Clearly The Daily Mail are obsessed with women's bodies. The last headline, especially, mentioning Jennifer Lopez, as a 'mother of two', (what has that got to do with the article?); describing her as a 'middle-aged diva'; even the words 'dignity' and 'degrading' added in there for good measure. The Daily Mail doesn't complain about young celebrities walking around with little clothing, but as soon as someone over the age of 40 walks out on stage in a leotard, all hell breaks loose.
How is it that the media have the right to continually ridicule, sexualise and objectify these women? By doing this, it is seriously harming the thoughts of both men and women by having specific, yet completely unrealistic ideas of what women should be like.
It needs to stop.
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