Through the reading of the “feminism” text, they write about the various media forms and their impact on feminism. It states that romance novels and soap operas “helped keep women in their place”, they related women to being melodramatic and promulgate patriarchal values. For this exact reason, women are known to be more sensitive than men and not as tough; however, this is not always the case. Filmmakers continued to use racists and sexist roles for women of color and white women. These roles in media confirmed the role women had in society; however, women did not agree nor tolerate these roles. Even today women continue to hold their own and play the role that they want to have in society. The feminist movement to become equal continues today where people fight to change society for the better, holding meetings and marches to show their support. Groups such as “Women’s March” offer series for women about empowerment and the future of women. With the people in society fighting for change, change will happen for the better.
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This post comes across like a “Cinderella” approach, where everything will get better and end happily ever after. Yet evidence like earning (women earn something like 75¢ to every $1 earned by mean on average), leadership (far fewer CEOs are women than men), and political power (the U.S. elected a Black man as president before a woman), suggest change is slow to come, and may even be stalled. I agree that “women continue to hold their own and play the role that they want to have in society,” but I think women face deep systemic challenges that require much more structural work to overcome.