Women in the Work Force!

In class we have been talking about women's roles and how the media See's women. They see women as a sexual object and make them out to be physically perfect. When the media thinks of a women and what there role is in society they think that she is a house wife that has to look good for her husband! Well times have surely changed. I came across article about women and the workforce, women are about to make up the majority of the US work force so obviously these roles women are suppose to have, have changed in the past 50 years. The article states that husbands are working less, going to school less, and living longer. Why are men more willing to take the backseat and let their wives bring in the income? Now in days men have a lot less pressure to support the household finically. Well according to the Washington post women use to get married to give them a finical boost since back then the men were bring in most of the income. Well now in days men are getting a better deal finical wise, that is if they marry a smart,career driven women. It's amazing to see how times have changed, women are not expected to become house wives but they have the opportunity to make a career for them selves. In some families the whole women and men role has changed some men are being staying home dads while there wives bring in the income. It just shows you that society is capable of change,women have gone from being a males property, to being the provider for her family and it gives me hope that maybe one day we wont be seen as object and that advertising will become more realistic. Women's roles in society have become bigger and more important over the last 50 years but then again it puts more pressure on us to be the perfect women. Weather its being the perfect wife that balances a career with raising the kids at the same time maintain that good body or weathers its being a good student and becoming a successful women all while having a good image. Yes women's roles have changed but is there too much pressure being put on women to live this ideal life by the media? Right now yes but hopefully in time that will change!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/18/AR2010011803834.html

Abuse of women in the media

We see images like these all the time. Using celeb. to show the mag. readers what is a good body and what is a bad body to have. Rarly will you ever see guys being compared on whats a good body for a guy to have and whats a bad body to have. Even if the guy has a less than perfect body, in the media its considered okay but if it was a women that has a less than perfect body then she is ugly. This kinda abuse keeps going on and people wonder why so many young girls have eating disorders and self exsteem problems, its because the way the media portrays women. Women are not portrayed in a positive light but more as obects to men. When we watched Killing me Sofly women were used as some kind of sexual object to sell something that had nothing to do with what the image was portraying. There is this kind of abuse of the womens body out there. They are always portrayed women has these sexy picture perfect girls and thats just not reality. With ads saying women are submissive, ignorent, and powerless this creates a whole new perception of what is a women. Is she just a object to lural guys in or a powerful figure used to make guys do what she wants using her image? Women are portrayed in many different lights but mostly negitive ones. With all these images going about and all these picture perfect bodies no wondering girls have problems seeing themseleves in a positive way.


This girl is looking in the mirror and seeing a healthy normal girl but what she really looks like is a frail skinny girl. When she looks in the mirror she is seeing herself as ugly and not perfect but in reality what she looks like in the mirror is healthy looking but what she really looks like is scary. How do you balance the media saying to look skinny but then bash someone if they are too skinny. So one needs to ask what is beautiful? They need to defind it for themseleves not defind it baised on what ads say looks sexy and beautiful because what the ads look like arent realist. For the sake of advertising womens bodies are being exploited and abused to sell something. Why cant women be portrayed in a positive light? As long as women contunied being portrayed this way girls who see this abuse of women will think less of themselves. After seeing all these images of perfect women out there, can one look in the mirror and like what they see? All women are being compared and it makes the extreams nessary in order to be compared in a positive light. Maybe the media needs to look at all these girls with eating disorders and blame themseleves because they are the ones telling them to look a certain way.

Intro and Women's Bodies and the Media

Hi there, my name is Katharina Zardinskas and im a junior. I have an older brother than goes to Ohio State and a godson who was just born Dec. 4, he is my world :) I just trasfered here from Bluffton University which is by Findlay, Ohio. Most people know of Bluffton from the baseball bus crash in Alanta Georgia 4 years ago. I played varsity Basketball and Soccer for them which was a lot of fun but my life was hetic with traveling every where. I liked Bluffton but i felt it was to small of a school for me and wanted something bigger.(my high school had more people) I graduated from Reynoldsburg High School which is out side of Columbus. Im a Political Science Major and i would like to become an International Relations Officer for Ohio when i graduate and maybe run for office one day. I also have a minor in Business and have interned in the Marketing Department in a Company called R.G. Barry in Columbus. Im currently taking a womens gender studies class also so i think it will help me with writing about women in this class. I decided to take this class because i thought it would be intresting to see how women are viewed and to write about it.

While reading Bordo's "The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity" she says there is a plight of women. I feel like the media makes women this way. You see these images every day and feel the need to compete with that image and look a certain way. That where you get this plight of women who diet, exercise so they can achive this look. A girl in class said even her friend cuts out a ad with a women whose body she wants to achive. Bordo say there is hope for these women if they relize what they are doing. I think as long as a women can see an ad and know that that type of body may not be realistic and not try to achive it but instead try to achive a better/heathier body for themself then there is hope. As long as ad's are showing women as these thin stick like women some women are going to try to achive that body and might take it to extrems.