In: Psychology
Detail three ways (sitcoms, commercials, magazines, etc.) that the popular media mis portrays gender roles and differences. (about 100 words)
Whatever you take such as newspaper, weekly magazine, advertizement etc., the major and obvious thing that you could see is the difference that portrayed regarding the gender. Media is one of the most widely influencing factor in the innocent peoples life. People learn many good and also bad things from media largely.It also portrays both good and bad things . One of the evil thing that media mis portrays is the gender roles and differences such as In ads they show men as a fat person with minimum makeup who usually spends time by relaxing himself but when it comes to women they usually look thin and slim with very beautiful skin . So here we could see that media silent demands women to look more beautiful even they age. They also show that women are more dependent on men and they portray women should spend her time by working only inside the house. They even portrays men are dominanet person than women. These are some of the ways of misportrays of media to people.