-Discuss how media shows women and men, support your ideas with Killing Us Softly and Tough Guise.
Media is biased about genders because they show men dominant and strong on the other hand, women are shown passive and a sexual object or a product by the media.In many TV programmes, advertisements or in newspapers, you can see men' s dominance. Masculinity is in many cultures, i mean that sometimes parents teach their boys to be violent or dominant and people do not find strange the media's attitude about gender differences.Masculinity is a pose, a performance, learned in our society and culture.For example in Tough Guise,Katz mention that media says that "kids killing kids" not that it is boys killing boys or girls but when a woman is violent, it is almost always an important part of the story. In addition, on televisions or films women is usually shown as desperate and men is shown as hero and dominant. Last 50 years, we can see the difference on men's image and masculinity, men became more aggressive and physically strong. There are few examples of image of men like, bisceps increasing double or triple in 50 years, the guns became more bigger and technological and more aggressive acts is shown.
Women are shown as sexual object and passive by media. In advertisements or in TV channels men are aggressive and active but girls are passive and less powerful . For example, in Killing Us Softly, the speaker mentions that in televisions, boys are taller and the boys looking down to see girls, it is about power. Also,girls are seen as a product in advertisements, only the women's body and beauty are important their bodyies is used on products.For example,in advertisements, advertisers focus on woman's part of body like their breasts. In our culture, men's body never critised or judged like women. The Media tells that women should not be too poweful, they should be silent and passive according to Killing Us Softly.
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14 years ago
Egemen, I don't really understand where you've taken this question from. Remember there was a list on my blog...
ReplyDeleteYou open with a thesis statement that directly answers the question, good. You need to make the paragraph break clearer. Try to make more specific reference to Katz and Kilbourne; you include examples from their films, but they need to be clearly referenced.
I would make a transition into the second paragraph with an expression like "On the other hand,".
Try to be careful with spelling and grammar: check, for example, 'bodyies' and 'in televisions'.
Remember to end the essay with a brief summary of what you've developed in the body.
You didn't indicate how much time you spent planning, writing and revising this. I didn't count the words but it seems slightly short. Try to keep to 500-600 words.
I don't have my criteria in front of me, but this would probably fit the 'C' band at the moment; with attention to the above points, it could earn a higher mark.
I hope this helps.