Blog 5

In the recent video we watched in my Race, Gender and the Media class we discussed how women have been portrayed in the media for the past forty years. Over the years women have been silenced through large advertising campaigns for make up and clothing. Not only have they been silenced, they've also been picked to pieces in images that only show them as objects. Now that media are portraying women as silenced objects, men look at women as sexual objects who should be submissive in every situation they are put in.
Recently I watched a documentary over Russian mail-order brides. Men who are too lame to find a woman who will put up with them in America have started finding women online to date from other countries, such as Russia. The main reason that these men are looking towards Russia for their future spouse is because the women are more submissive, said the documentary. Not only are they more submissive they haven't had the feminist rights movement over there, the way America has. One of the sad stories that the documentary told was about a man who married a woman from Russia through mail order. Once she was in America, she wouldn't have sex with him. One day he raped and murdered her. Through this one act of violence towards mail order brides, the state of Washington decided to place a piece of legislation on the mail order bride websites.
Women shouldn't feel they need to be submissive, from America to Russia. We should be able to express our opinions in our relationships and our careers. The way the media has portrayed us is disturbing and should be changed. Women should be able to be who they are, however they want to be, no matter what it is and the advertising companies should learn to deal with this.