CRM 2307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sarah Palin, Reality Television, Miss Representation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2307
• Professor: Christine Bruckert

Document Summary

Girls get a message that what is important is how they look. No matter what their achievements are, it matters about how they look. Media is limiting and derogertating to the most influential women. Mother looked around and saw that ger daughter could not be socially and emotionally happy in modern society. Negativity in media on womens weight and looks just to conform to mens. If women don"t look like the ideal women, they are scrutinized. People get bullied and hurt by the medias interpretation of the perfect ideal women. Ideal beauty is impossible: perfection was achieved through makeup but now it can be digitally altered to be humanly perfect, the effect is subconscious and harmful. We get conditioned to think that anorexic women is the ideal and the regular women body was fat. Media is about wanting you to be something youre not: for men its about anxiety and power, for women its that youre not beautiful enough.