Gender Essay

Perfect: excellent or complete beyond practical, the description to an ideal type, websters dictionary refers to perfect as an “ideal type”. But in reality, what is perfect? Who can actually define perfect? In our world perfect is only used to represent something perfect in your opinion. In general there is no real definition to ‘perfect’ there is only what you beleive perfect is in your mind. Nobody is perfect. Everyone has flaws. Everyone makes mistakes. And everyone has bad days. Now a days with the media people believe there is a definition to perfect, because of the influence of movie stars, models, or even singers. The world is dependant on who’s the best of the best, who’s the prettiest, who's the skinniest, and even who has the hotter boyfriend. It is an extended list that goes on and on about who’s who and what about them is so great. In news and entertainment media, women have frequently been represented wrongly with minor changes in the media over the past decade. The female characters often shown in film and television casts have gender stereotypes. American teenagers spend an average of 10 hours and 45 minutes absorbing media in just one day; this includes the amount of time spent watching TV,

listening to music, watching movies, reading magazines and using the internet. The images women (particularly young girls) are shown affects the way they are seen by others and themselves. It is highly unlikely for females to excel and pursue leadership in a society where reality isn’t that visible. Especially in movies women are stereotyped into categories that only they could fill. Women are more likely to work genres such as romantic comedy, documentary, and romantic drama. Women are least likely to work in horror, action, and comedy genres. Usually, female characters were typically younger than their male characters, and more likely to have an employment status that was not shown. Shows that had at least one female writer or creator had a