Class 5/8/15

Yesterday, on Friday, in class we continued watching more of the documentary Generation M: Mysogyny in Media and Culture.  The documentary examined more of the negative effects that the modeling and advertisement industry have on society.  One of the main problems was the emergence of eating disorders due to the modeling industry.  This industry glamorized extremely skinny models.  On posters, these images were heavily edited with Photoshop and did not portray a realistic standard of beauty.  One woman in the documentary stated that the modeling industry made it seem ok to have eating disorders just to remain skinny.  The documentary then shifted back to the discussing gender roles again.  They discussed how a large part of sexism may be due to the fact that men are generally "tougher" and "manly" where as women are stereotyped to be more "passive" and "feminine".  This was very interesting because in my family, the same stereotyping actually occurs.  Overall, I look forward to learning more about gender in our society and how the modeling and beauty markets affect gender stereotypes.