The depiction of women in all forms of media, including...

The depiction of women in all forms of media, including print, broadcasted and internet media, is constantly showing that they are the weaker of the two sexes. Gender. What is it? How does it make us who we are? Are we dependent on it? So many questions derive from this one word, gender. Gender, according to ITU is the ‘social attributes and opportunities associated with being male and female’. There are so many different parts of the term gender and so many roles that each sex partakes in. One role that I have noticed amongst every form of media, weather it is in books or in movies is that women appear to be the weaker of the two sexes. I don’t believe women are weak and there have been many changes in society to this day that agree†¦show more content†¦I think Disney is the obvious choice to blame for the portrayal of weak women. I mean, Disney resolves around the idea that women need rescuing, that we are the damsels in distress. I, being 16, grew up watching Cinderella, Snow White and Rapunzel. All those movies have the same common motif, â€Å"that one day my prince will come†. In fact, the entire Disney princess’ movies collection seems to have the same story line. The endings all had the same idea involving being rescued or saved by a â€Å"prince charming†. Another popular kid’s movie that was created, that did have some hope for the depiction of women was Shrek. The idea of the damsel in distress was turned on its head when Princess Fiona got the shock of her life when the big ogre showed up to rescue her. Fiona went from being the damsel to the sudden ‘I’m better than you’ attitude because Shrek didn’t live up to the typical â€Å"prince charming†. However Shrek lost this powerful message by the end of the movie and completely threw it in the bag by the end of the third movie in the motion picture series when Fiona and Shrek got married and had a family. Yeah, it was sweet and had the message that it is wrong to judge people solely by their appearances alone, but it also showed the transformation that Fiona took to become â€Å"perfect† for Shrek. When I am down in the dumps and just want to relax with a nice cup of hot cocoa and watch some romantic movie that makes every teenage girl reassess her life,