LET’S TALK ABOUT SEXIST TROPES IN THE MEDIA
MISOGYNISTIC MEDIA TROPES by Laasya Babbellapati and Yawen Xue
The Misogynistic fine-tuning of our Media Mainstream media is full of these tropes—recurring characters, plots, and other elements of storytelling. The woman who says romance doesn’t interest her but gives in to a male pursuer in the end, the girl who “isn’t like the other girls,” the woman who dies in a horror movie for no apparent purpose -- the books we read and the movies and TV shows we watch are full of them, and they contribute to a misogynistic social dialogue. Time and time again, research has shown that the media has a significant impact on people’s perception of themselves and each other, and it’s even more blatant on youth. Misogynistic TV tropes can cause society to normalize various aspects of sexism. It can cause women to internalize gender roles and romanticize misogynistic scenarios. In this article, we’ll examine the harmful impact of several categories of sexist tropes.
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