...Beauty pageants, Barbies and icons like Marilyn Monroe all three put out messages in terms of beauty and sexuality when it comes to women in the 1950s. Messages that are inherent in beauty pageants were very negative when they first began in the 1920s. When the pageants first began in the 1920s, women were only scored based on their body parts, including face, torso and legs. They had guidelines on what constituted beauty, and this sent out the message that the way that a woman body looks is the only thing that women should be concerned about, and if you don't qualify for these pageants then your body is not perfect in their eyes, resulting in low self-esteem. Even though a talent portion was added to the rules of the pageant, and one of the awards included a $5,000 college scholarship, looks still controlled these pageants. I think that the 1948 contract supported this message because the contract included a rule stating, “Contestant must be of good character and possess poise, personality, intelligence, charm, and beauty of face and figure.” (1948 Pageant Contract) They added...
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...theory as well as turning to outlets like Spoken word and beauty pageants, the Asian community is able to find a voice for themselves or paint a picture for themselves. Instead of assimilating into American culture, they decided to build up their culture for themselves. Through Spoken word, Asian american’s are able to fight off hegemonic standards that characterizes them as well as creating their own voice. People that are so fed up with...
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...Monday, October 5, 2015 3:51 PM Ashley Caalingbull received a lot of media attention after being the first aboriginal women to win the Mrs Universe pageant. This pageant is for married women and the theme is domestic violence. The articles that I’ve chosen to talk about were written between the 28th of August and September 3th. I noticed that the 7 medias I will be talking about all have different angles and perceptions. Some of the medias prioritized physical appearances while others prioritized politics. Global media The Article by Global news about Ashley Callingbull prioritized her politic message and engagement rather then the Mrs Universe pageant itself. It is said in the title hat Ashley calls for First Nations to vote out Harper. She also adds that it is a challenge to get First Nations to vote because they feel like politicians don’t speak to them. In the article, she is portrayed as a politic figure that wants to see changes. Although it is mention that she is a victim of poverty and sexual abuse, there is more emphasis on her message. It is clear that social media have criticized her a lot; however, the article responds to the critiques in a positive way rather then treat her as a victim. She is portrayed as a strong person. She also received a tweet from Amnesty Canada, a reputable institution, congratulating her for using her voice. CBC news: The Article made by CBC news has a very strong title. It is written in the title that Ashley said First Nations are being...
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...At the age of 16 months to 16 years old, it is estimated that 3 million children compete in beauty pageants(“Beauty Pageants Draw Children and Criticism”). Some parents enroll their children into these pageants in order for their children to follow the steps of celebrities like Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner, who began modeling at a young age and now have a successful career. Parents enroll their children at a young age to get the urge of starting to become famous at a young age to be cast into acting and get movie parts; however, the child may not want to participate and is forced to. Enrolling children into beauty pageants at a young age is not acceptable. Parents should stop the enrollment of their children into beauty pageants due to the...
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... when Ramsey's 6-year-old daughter JonBenet, a frequent child pageant contestant, was found murdered. John now regret putting his child in pageants and says they are bad for young girls. Beauty pageants are beautiful but they can cause pain in different ways. Children beauty pageants are bad because they are sexualize young girls, wear high heels, cause cognitive and emotional problems. French lawmakers want an all-out ban on child pageants. They are accusing the media and reality TV of promoting stereotypes that transform young girls into sexual morsels. Look at the growing number of schoolgirls as young as 8 who wear padded bras, high heels, or makeup, and strike suggestive poses. What is that telling the children about how they present themselves to society? In the other hand, children in pageants can carry over into a multitude of other activities, like dance, drama, music recitals, and future public speaking. A pageant girl usually learns to be comfortable in front of strangers, giving her self-confidence a big boost When little pageant contestants wear heels it unnecessarily pushes their weight forward, causing lower back pain and hindering proper development of the feet. In some cases, these girls are forced to continue wearing heels outside of pageants because their feet have grown in a way that makes wearing other kinds of shoes very uncomfortable. One of the most widely used products in child pageants is hair spray, which contains phthalates, or plasticizers, that...
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...The Perfect Female Body: Long before beauty pageants, Barbie dolls, and extra-ordinarily beautiful girls, came about the idea of the female body. Whether you are a believer of creationalism, scientology, or evolutionism, somehow we all came about with the perception of the “perfect” female. Women have always been seen, and portrayed as a sex symbol, and usually the disobedient one. Dating back to B.C and the story of Adam and Eve, Eve was the naked one who bit into the fruit that god told her was forbidden. Why couldn’t it have been Adam that caused such scandal, and was the cause for destruction, and crime in the world, and not Eve? From the believed beginning of time, to present day, women have really only progressed a small amount up the social ladder. Today, women are looked down upon, if they are slightly more over weight then what is considered “normal,” if they are “underweight”, “darker skin color”, too “pale”, “flat chested”, big boned, “thick,” or because of their ethnicities and backgrounds. So what exactly defines the “perfect female?” Is it the girls featured on “Girls Gone Wild” in Cancun, or the half naked models posing for Victoria’s Secret? Or is it the perfectly put together “Miss America” pageant queens? Or is it the Hollywood actresses with billion dollar dresses, and priceless jewelry? Or the well toned, well defined professional team cheerleaders, and dancers we watch? WE, speaking for us “average” women, who often tend to idolize, and carry pieces...
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...By watching YouTube videos, television shows, movies, or any form of news, it is obvious that what we should be thinking of women today (obtain authority, become a successful business woman, getting paid equal to men), is extremely different to how women are portrayed in the media. Todays women in the media are sexualized, they provide unrealistic expectations, and there are undeniable stereotypes. To begin, women are exceedingly sexualized in the media. Pornographic pictures of women are a huge component of media today, which leads to the objectification of women. By having these women viewed as sexual objects, the main reason why marketing companies do this is to attract men, and to have other women looking up to the advertised women as a role model. A good example is the Calvin Klein commercials, where women are seen as sexualized (making other women jealous and wanting to be like them) and sexually attracting men (if they buy this product they will get the girls). Another example is the MTV channel. The women on this channel will arouse sexual fantasies, but the less seductive more modest female singers barely get...
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...In middle school and high school, I was quite insecure until I started competing in pageants. For me, pageantry is empowering. It seems like an oxymoron. Anyone who knows the slightest bit about Toddlers and Tiaras can tell you that the institution is about superficiality and objectification. However, reality TV portrays pageantry as realistically as it does housewives in Orange County. When I tell people that I am involved in this, they are shocked. I, as a well-educated feminist, simply don’t fit their stereotype. I don’t compete to be judged on my beauty. That’s an antiquated idea that most systems have moved past and it’s not a quality I care enough about. I do it to represent my community, promote causes I care about, and improve my confidence....
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...Body-image has been affecting people for centuries, people have always had a certain stereotype the world chooses to appear like. There is a substantial amount of people that develop eating disorders or depression. Teens in this era are at a great risk to the exposure of self-harm and judging themselves all because of the current stereotypes for men and women. Everyone at some point in their lifetime have dealt with body-image issues, some more severe than others. Many people have died from severe cases of disorders like anorexia or mental disorders because they were so obsessed with their bodies or faces being perfect. Many people commonly binge eat then do strenuous exercise to work off all the weight they just gained, but that makes people...
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...Her religion is not being a strawberry in a Hansel and Gretel pageant, otherwise she would not be the runner she is today. She dislikes—no, despises—her mother’s expectations, and that drives her to run away from this vivid hell. Like the protagonist of the song, “Carry On”, Squeaky is saying, “Though I’ve never been through hell like that / I’ve closed enough windows to know you can never look back”. This window that Squeaky has closed is Squeaky’s mother’s imagination. This hell she has been through—this hell that defied her lifestyle, has no place in the runner’s world. Indeed, Squeaky states: “I am not a strawberry. I do not dance on my toes. I run. That is what I am all about” (p. 32, lines 199-200). Though Squeaky has closed the window to hell—the hell still shines through. In other words, her mother is still trying to convince her that she has to be the perfect girl. This is where the curtains to her window come in. These curtains help to filter out these negative female stereotypes by allowing her to be adamant and adhering to her running “religion”. She is turning away from these girly stereotypes to zero in on her true passion of running. That is what she is all about. However, even the resilience she radiates on the outside cannot compare to...
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...Significance of the Study Beauty pageants take place everywhere around the world, and as the researcher observed, they never fail to draw various sectors of audiences. As Cohen (1996a) described it, beauty pageants, as diverse as they are in their cultural and historical contexts, they do something similar wherein they establish an ideal of beauty that best represents the locality. Indeed, Filipinos have been always fond of beauty pageants that it has become a significant part of their lives. No town fiesta or festival can be called as they are if there was no beauty pageant held. And beauty queens and even beauty contestants are always admired and considered as one of the beautiful icons in the country. But as the Philippine culture easily being influenced by the American society, this research hopes to emphasize the distinction of Philippine beauty pageants from American beauty pageants for it is in beauty pageants that the epitome of a Filipino is being showcased around the world. With that in the mind, this research also hopes to discover and unravel the purposes behind the staging of beauty pageants in both American and Philippine society. Background of the Study The researcher, who is not a stranger in the world of beauty contests in her school, has been asked by a judge on what she thinks is the purpose of beauty pageants in the society and whether its purpose is still prevalent. Intrigued, the researcher decided to do a research on beauty pageants. The TLC TV series Toddlers...
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...The social media has been used globally as a key vehicle for communication. Since the technology era began, it has played a major role in how people view certain events, races, professions, culture etc. The media is one of the most powerful forces out there, and it can put people together and pull apart as we can see in the ongoing presidential race. Nurses have had images ranging from the Angel of mercy to the sexual stereotype sometimes portrayed in works of fiction. The media portrayal on nurses has many negative impacts on the public’s image of nursing. About 70-80% of medical movies seen characterized nurses as a sexual object rather than professionals. After the media have created these images of nurses, people of the world began to keep the image in their mind and grew bias. Today, most medical dramas are physician dominated shows, offering viewers little to no truth about nursing profession. Shows like, ER, Grey’s Anatomy and House are three well-liked medical shows with a large audience. On most of the show, nurses are barely even a background noise, sometimes, they walk on and off the screen, dressed in tight fitted scrubs and holding clipboards contributing nothing to the care, meanwhile nurses are the largest group of health care professional providing direct patient care in hospital, and the quality of care is strongly linked to the performance of nursing staff but the popular media today reflects just the opposite. The invisibility of nurses on hospital dramas...
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...Analysis In “The Three Waves of Feminism” by Martha Rampton, she describes the second wave of feminism as the wave of obtaining equal rights for both genders. Rampton refers to the protest of the Miss America pageant in 1968 and 1969 where the women “crowned a sheep as Miss America and threw ‘oppressive’ feminine artifacts such as bras, girdles, high-heels, makeup and false eyelashes into the trashcan” (Rampton). Janie demonstrates a similar type of protest in the story after Jody dies. Then Janie gets remarried to Tea Cake and develops herself more as a feminist through the performance of task that were considered to be masculine. Janie goes in to visit her husband on his death bed. She talks and tells him how he oppressed her and wasn’t “de Jody ah run off down de road wid”. Once Jody finally does die in front of her, Janie “tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair” (Hurston 87). Janie is showing her protest of the oppressive clothing pieces that Jody had her wear by taking them off and letting her true self be shown and it represents the principles of the second wave of feminism. By not wearing the “appropriate” attire for a woman, Janie is showing how she is doing everything for herself and not to please men and fulfill their gender stereotypes. When Jody dies, Janie is single and rich so many men in the town try to come and marry her. She feels that she can live without a husband. But then Tea Cake comes and she ends up marrying him and moving...
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...Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein, addresses the princess stereotypes, unattainable body images, and pressures to be perfect that girls face throughout childhood and into adulthood. By narrating the story through her own experiences with her daughter, Daisy, Orenstein discusses the way marketers narrow girl's’ options by focusing on pink, princesses, and perfection. In order to understand the challenges and pressures girls encounter, Orenstein talks with mothers of other daughters and psychologists, travels to Disney, American Girl, the New York Toy Convention, a glitz pageant, and a Miley Cyrus concert, and researches classic fairy tales, the evolution of dolls, television shows, and websites. After learning about all things girl,...
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...interest groups and other agencies there is a push to bringing diversity into the mainstream media business. Thesis Analysis of the mainstream media reflects inequalities for minorities and women. Of grave concern is the mass media’s negative approach to educating our society through what we perceive is open knowledge in the media, and poor media oversight. The media is undoubtedly important and there is extensive evidence that it both reflects and shapes society and individuals in both positive and negative ways. The issue of control and ownership of the media, and the extent to which this affects society, remain problematic and predominately white male media ownership. According to the article (Media Stereotyping, 2010) “media stereotypes are inevitable, especially in the advertising, entertainment and news industries, which need as wide an audience as possible to quickly understand information.” The passage of the Telecommunications Act is to let anyone enter into any communications business and let any communications businesses compete in any market against any other (Commission, 2008). The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) needs to be governed and amendments to the Telecommunications Act need to be revised to incorporate new standards. Employment opportunities are down for both...
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