Media elements that being transferred to the vast society is then becoming world wide and media producers concern about transferring media that people in the society can accept. Therefore, creating the phenomena of media stereotypes today.
The media is full of economic, gender and ethnic stereotypes, from the roles of good guys and bad guys in video games to the hero from the animated films our youngest children enjoy. As I am a movie lover, I am going to talk about stereotypes that is presented in movies.
A very obvious stereotype that presented in all of the movies was the dependency of women upon men. Male characters always participated in helping a female-character to reach the success.
In Spiderman, the female main character is always the one that is needing the help from the male main character. Main character of Blue Crush received an important advice from a young man she fell in love with, and, therefore, managed to win the competition. And, in A League Of Their Own most of the women lived with the thoughts about their husbands who were fighting in the war.
I certainly can't buy the stories to convey stereotypes merely as entertainment sometimes and I think it is very important that people are able to recognize the stereotypes. Other from that, children should also be taught from the schools what are the stereotypes that exist in society and how one should understand them, so that they, first of all, did not reproduce the existing stereotype, and, secondly, did not except everything what they see in movies, press or Internet for the pure truth.
I believe media stereotypes should be eliminated from the society as it affects the society indirectly on the mind and culture of the society.
I truly agree that school has the responsibility to educate kids
ReplyDeletebesides that, parent guide is also important to teach their child not to believe 100% from the TV, magazine, internet,etc.
It is good if student and kids know how to differentiate media stereotype.stereotype do bring a lots of bad effects to the society and cause a lot of problem too.teaching early to them and let them avoid it early.
ReplyDeleteThat is right. Almost all the movies are the same. Male characters always participated in helping a female-character to reach the success.
ReplyDeleteIt have become a constant way to act in the movie.
ya! It seems that all the movies also shows that the male character always helping the females when they are in help. The worst is that the females are the ones who are always in the hot soup... When the atmosphere is getting more tensed and stressful, the hero will comes into their aid. If the teenagers can differentiate it well, they may have the misconception of the females are the weaker ones who always required the men's help. In fact this is the consequences of the media stereotype.
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