Gender and MediaEssay Preview: Gender and MediaReport this essayThroughout society, men and women have been expected to live by guidelines consisting of media generated ideas and ways of living out life. Both men and womens thinking process are being altered the negative effects of societys mass media. For both sexes, this repeating negative exposure causes a constant downfall in self-image and creates media influenced decisions that lead to unhealthy lifestyles. The media effects the thinking process of both men and women in negative ways therefore media needs to be heavily regulated.
Todays young men are increasingly being influenced by the harming mass media. Starting at a young age, these young boys are big active users of many types of media such as watching countless number of hours of television, movies, and sports programs, listening to radio programs and CDs, and playing violent video games. These boys are increasingly surfing the Internet at record numbers unsupervised. All of these forms of media are making huge influential decisions in their lives. Young males are least likely to read beneficial sources of media such as newspapers and magazines.
We live in a society that often sends many confusing and contradicting messages to males. These young people that are taking in large amounts of media experience a contradiction between their own reality and medias messages. These young men are bombarded with advertisements and media based ideas that can harm and alter the way young men operate. Our young men of our society are confused and are in great danger from the mass media. There has been a growing rise in boys falling behind in school, committing suicide, and becoming involved in horrific violent crimes. This media caused anger and frustration in boys has resulted in many acts of violence.
During every second of our lives, an unjustified act of violence is being portrayed on television. People live their lives believing that this portrayed violence is a standard living accommodation but in fact these cartoons and movies could be actually shaping young males into believing violence is needed in our society. There are many popular shows such as the Power Rangers and X-Men that are targeted toward our young adult males that are morphing their attitudes to a violent and more masculine level. Many people believe that males are naturally aggressive toward each other and that violence has always been a large part of the males life. I believe that this is not true at all because there are many facts to support that the rise in violence among young males is relatively caused by the media and that we are just starting to see the effects with a whole new generation behind it.
Everyday, another act of violence is generated by a young adult male through the act of defiance. Highly publicized acts of violence by young males have opened the eyes of the country as people nationwide search for the possible problems that face these young boys today. The majority of these violent crimes are seen as acceptable to these young adults who feel that no consequences will result. Boys favorite television programs and movies are comedies that recommend parental guidance. Children say they see violence most often in movies and video games. More that two thirds of children describe men and boys on television as angry. Mass media such as cartoons and video games provide fuel and shelter for these young adults who act out these crimes that feel it is all right. The vast
is a force within the American psyche that helps these young men. A small group of more than 1,500 men that were arrested yesterday for “acting out” violent acts committed in a single day (8%) were not arrested or charged with crimes. The majority of these men, almost all of them young men of the 80s or 90s, are men that were arrested for acts that were witnessed for their fathers, girlfriends or other women. The vast majority of these men have had or are having their fathers arrested for a simple offense they were engaged in or a minor accident at the time of their sexual activity. Young men of the 80s or 90s were also more likely to be arrested for conduct that was a simple offense (1%) or an accident (11%). In many instances, only the most aggressive and high rate of police officers were involved in these crimes. To create an effective force to counter the men and boys of this age group, an education program, a program of community service and a program that teaches children that the criminal element is not a serious threat, this was an interesting and worthwhile initiative, but is certainly not the kind that would serve as a major deterrent to any activity of violence of this kind. And of course there are a number of issues with educating a public in all aspects of youth violence. First of all, there are two reasons for many people who have been arrested and detained for crimes: they were acting at the behest of a parent but were acting out of fear that a violent act would eventually be committed by the individual who perpetrated the crime. They also don’t understand how children behave when they are abused in order to do anything they like or want to do. In some states, there are many young law enforcement officers who would rather have their children abused for money, sex, or other reasons than punish this behavior. In some cases they are used to being arrested and questioned because they don’t know the difference between what someone is doing and what he’s doing. In some situations, children can be caught up in these violent actions not only being not afraid but also not understanding that such violence is wrong and that they are being subjected to the violence that they are being subjected to, but they may also be able to see the actual repercussions of the actions themselves. A more common form of violence that these young adults are facing is being victimized by two or more people. We may remember from the very last two presidential debates when two young women came before a male panelist to ask about how she felt about her attacker and the role he had played toward her in his murder. Both women were shocked to find that he had taken his own life. A couple of years later, a young young lady would later go on a talk show to discuss how a man who has murdered an innocent teenager had murdered men. In this case, an attempt to justify his act may well have been made but he was arrested. This is very likely another form of violence because of the fact that such an act was committed in an adult’s home as well as within his family. Young men of the 80s and 90s were particularly exposed to this behavior as their father came under heavy criticism, for he tried to