Feminist Medi The Second Woman s Perseverance Essay

Feminism in Media Historically women have been portrayed as the weaker sex and placed in roles that paints the picture of childlike characters that usually fall into one of two archetypes the first is a serene, nurturing, ‘perfect’, submissive girl, the second is a bitter, conniving, career/power motivated woman. Each archetype shown with flaws that are not necessarily flaws; their standardized personalities being portrayed as faults the second woman’s perseverance is shown as a childlike petulence instead of the tenacity of a male character in the same situation if a male character was to act like the first type would be seen as weak, spineless, and unmotivated. This has created a harmful double standard for generations of people not fitting precisely into the gender roles that media and thereby society have projected as the all-powerful norm. â€Å"Fourth Wave Feminism† in media is how people are taking back the narrative in an attempt to gain complete equality for all gen der identities in every aspect of life, it is a movement against gender normative stereotypes and oppression in mainstream media, not a call to gynecocracy but simply one to a movement for fair and equal treatment for people regardless and inexorably tied to equal rights for all sexualities, races, and religions. Feminism has a rich history dating back as long as the written word. Even before what is classically known as the ‘first wave’ of feminism, works on gender equality were being published (although