Essay 4

My topic for Essay 4 is how woman are portrayed in the media and also how they are treated when they are a victim of violence. These two go hand in hand because the media is the leading cause of the way women are treated as victims in court by the way women are shown in the media. Women who have been the victims of violence are often treated as if they deserved the crime that happened to them. Most women are treated guilty until they can prove they are innocent of leading up to the violence against them. Even when women are cleared there is still usually doubt directed toward them still. It is easier for a man to accuse another man of a crime and not be looked at as if he provoked the crime of attack. Statistics show that it is easier for a man to be looked at as innocent in the event of rape than the woman who accuses him. Women are viewed as objects in adds and this leads to the violence. It is very clear that the media shows us all that it is a man's world in everything the print from adds of perfume to commercials. The media uses women to sell sex in just about every product we view. If you look at the way women are portrayed in any event in the media, it is always subtle and submissive. Even in politics women are down played so to speak. Even young girls are shorter than boys and in a passive poses instead of the active or bad boy poses men and boys are displayed as. The media needs to stop using them as sex objects playing down women.