How is the Other Presented in the Media?

      Stereotypes. Everyone in the media has a stereotype. Whether you are male, female, black, white, fat, skinny, Hispanic, christian, Jewish, single, married, divorced. There is a stereotype trying to define us. The sad thing about these stereotypes is that they make people think that they have to be these impossible things to fit it.

        With women, you see photos of this unattainable beauty which women strive to become day after day. But in reality the women in the magazine don't even look like that.

  In this video, you see how the media projects women to be something they aren't. Even though women have had many strives in the past decades, it still shouldn't be how it is today. Women should not be objectified, or being showed as their bodies being the only thing that matters to society. 

   Women are also seen as weaker and not as significant as a man. In this photo below, it is referring to how before the new ketchup top, women were not physically strong even to open it and needed a man.

  But its not just affecting women either, stereotypes affect gender roles as well. Men should be the provider. They should be in control of the house and a women should just be next to him. 

The stereotype for the man is that, he should have a successful job, because that is the only way to show his power and authority.

Stereotypes also affect all the ethnicity's. Asians are thought to be extremely smart, Muslims are terrorist, blacks are good at sports, Mexican are lazy and came into America illegally, Jews are greedy, and the list goes on and on. 

The media does not correctly represent the minorities in our culture. They would rather make someone laugh and make a joke out of a culture instead of correctly show who they are. This is why stereotyping is such a problem in our culture. If someone is outside a persons inside group it causes them to have a judgement on them just because of something they saw from the media. People do not have respect for people that aren't like them because they automatically think of the negative stereotype that they heard about them. All in all, I think the media has a lot of work to do when it deals with cultures. People need to be viewed as people and not as their stereotype.