The video was about a group of individuals who went through hundreds of newspapers and cut out pictures of all the males and females. They then put them up on the wall separating females and males. The images of the females were very sexualised and contained a lot of nudity. For the males there were a lot of sportsmen and business men. Through out the magazines there was not 1 image of a sports woman.
Note down the on-screen text that lists each of the conclusions they made.
In the video they made many conclusions at the end. These conclusions include 'there is a range of emotions on the main sides ... the women are mainly standing and pouting' and ' this is a newspaper reowned for sport, and there is not a single image of a woman doing sport'.
Give your view - do you agree with the conclusions? Is this representation harmful? Why?
I do believe that the representation of females is highly harmful. This is because females are being presented in a way in which they are being disrespected by The Sun. The fact that there is no female sportswoman suggests to the audience that females are only there for looking pretty and pleasing men. As a result young individuals who may read the newspaper will only see women who are half-naked or pregnant which creates the idea to them that being half-naked in a newspaper is perfectly normal. Also young females are less likely to be motivated to become a sportswoman as there are no images of sportswoman in the newspaper.
I believe it is important for the younger generation to see something that they can look up to. Whether it is a sportswoman or a dancer. If all a young girl sees is images of naked females then it is likely that her ambitions will be low and the same to the girls in the newspaper.
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