Gender Representation

Objectification Types

• Gender
• Age
• Disability
• Sexuality
• Ethnicity
• Regionally 

Female Representation

Sexual objectification towards women is really high in the Media, it involves women being portrayed as objects of sex rather than normal human beings. This doesn't help the cases of women feeling the need to be as 'perfect' as the girls they see on several TV advertisements. 

The different types of sexual representation can change and vary depending on what is being advertised. They mostly show half naked and/or fully naked women posing for products completely unrelated to sexual scenes. 

Adverts can also show powerful scenes of Men overpowering women and also scenes of rape and girls being abused just for sexual representation.

Here are a few examples of female objectification in the Media:

These are main examples of Women's bodies being abused just to sell a products a long with the idea of  sex. This is because it is believed that 'sex sells' worldwide.

Problems with female representation is that it leads to health and psychological problems with them leading to depression, anxiety and eating disorders etc. This is why there are lots of campaigns to remove female (and male) representation from the Media to save our generations from believing that what they see is what is right. There was a video we watched in class involving Caroline Heldman doing a lecture on why it was wrong and discussing reasons why it needs to stop.