Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Media and the real world


Reading Valenti is always a delight because of her brutal honesty for the topic. The reading for this week was no different. Her depiction of pop cultures roles on gendered rules brought in the new ideas of gender. While I have always discussed the portrayal of women, there was some disconnect as to what these type of ideas do exactly in the feminist fight. The discussion in class mirrored these ideas, and allowed us to share our own ideas about this new type of violence against women that is shown through the media. Often times the treatment of women is degrading and does not promote women as capable of taking care of themselves in the real world, and the subsequent consequence in violence in all parts of women’s lives is amazing to look into from an outside perspective.

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