EffectsofSocialMediaaboutMasculinityandFemininity

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Effects of Social Media about Masculinity and Femininity
Many factors influence our views on masculinity and femininity. Some of these factors include culture, profession, and media among others. Among all these factors, media has the most powerful and persuasive influences on femininity and masculinity. From the activities of the two different genders on social media, people can form different views and ideas on the two genders. Social Media communicates to its audience on a daily basis through the images and other forms of representation that concerns femininity and masculinity.
Social media portrays men as authoritative and women are incompetent. Social media represents men to be competent authorities who always save women from their incompetence. Even in most television programs men still outnumber women (Richardson & Sadie 8). This makes people form an idea that men are more competent than women.
Social media also portrays men as the breadwinners and women as caregivers. Some programs aired on televisions always show women involved in chores around the house and raising children. Men are still out working to provide for the family (Richardson & Sadie 13). Men are always not involved in performing house chores or child care. The social media gives less attention to women who are engaged in commercial activities than men.
The social media also represent women as sex objects and men as aggressors. Women are always objects of men’s sexual desires.

In most social media videos, women are always encouraged to adopt qualities such as beauty, passivity, and sexiness to attract the attention of men (Richardson & Sadie 21). Men are encouraged to adopt qualities such as dominance, strength, and aggressiveness. In general, social media assist people to formulate ideas that men dominate the society and women are subject to men.
The social medial also describes women as promoters of social evils such as prostitution while distances men from the act despite men also playing a role in the immoral act. It is true to say that men act as the ‘customers’ in the sex business yet women are the ones being ‘crucified’ alone as being the masterminds of the social immorality. Men, as a gender, should also be condemned for allowing the evil to continue because when they refuse to pay for sex, fewer women will take part in prostitution.
In conclusion, it is pretty clear that the social media describes the place of men and women in the society. It further emphasizes things that are already known by the society with regards to gender and makes people believe, appreciate and comprehend differently. The representation of masculinity and femininity on the social media has also changed how the society thinks and makes a decision concerning significant social issues.
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Richardson, Niall, and Sadie Wearing. Gender in the Media. Macmillan International Higher
Education, 2014.