Blog #4 Option 1

Option 1:How do the media images & stereotpyes of men & women impact how we view each other professionally (at school, at work, in politics, etc.)?

The media images and stereotypes of men and women have a huge impact on how we view each other (at school, at work, in politics, etc.). I think that they make the distinction in between men and women even more obvious, and I think that they do effect a lot that goes on in our everyday lives.

The media images and stereotypes of men make the men feel as if they always have to be masculine and burly. They always are told that they have to be strong and tough and able to build a house with their bare hands, and to own humongous, gas guzzling, trucks that have way to many superfluous characteristics that you might use once every lifetime. The image of men being tough is in every man's mind every day of their lives, and they feel like that always have to either be huge and muscular, or the typical tough guy with no feelings or emotions. The stereotypes also make the men feel as if they are always the alpha dog in the workplace and school, which obviously is not a correct thing to believe. Men still typically have the positions of power in the workplace, but are not nearly as dominant as they usually have been.
The media images and stereotypes of women have ever greater ramifications, they make women feel as if they always have to be beautiful and skinny. The women then put on tons of makeup and try to maintain their weight, and are worried only about living up to the stereotypes. In school and the workplace, we only see this face and this body that media says the girls have to be, not how the girls themselves are. They are forced to not show their true self, and feel like they are not good enough just being themselves. We see the media, not the person. I think that women are most severely injured and hurt by the stereotypes that the media portrays.