Media Stereotyping of Men and Women

In society as a whole, people are expected to follow the guidelines of ideas and lifestyles created by men. Both male and female thinking processes are changing the negative effects of mass media. Both men and women, this repeated negative exposure brings about a decline in self-image and media influence, bringing unhealthy lifestyle. Because media adversely affects the thinking process of men and women, the media needs to be strictly regulated. Today's young people are increasingly affected by mass media injuries.

Through gender discrimination in the media, a stereotypical idea of ​​how men and women should act and the roles they should follow is developed. By spreading the view on gender discrimination, the media has the ability to influence the public, so that the mass media has created a fixed idea that they expect the general public to comply. Advertising campaigns such as Bar One's "Bar One Man" and Windhoek's "Always Stay True" campaign are typical examples of how media decides male behavior. Women for advertising and TV shows are mostly thin. The women who saw this were deemed repatriated to unhealthy diet and eating disorders in order to obtain the ideal body drawn by the media, thinking that it is commonplace. Young girls and women may suffer from anorexia nervosa and bulimia when trying to match the perfect body form described in the media. Men are described as being very strong, masculine and muscular

Arab and Arab American women are also drawn in stereotypes with TV and movies. Jennifer Bing-Canar and Mary Zerkel are exploring these depictions in their article "Reading the Media and Myself: An Important Media Literacy Experience with a Young Arab American Woman". In this article it is worth noting that Arab women are often seen as adultery, belly dance, women with excessive sexual desire, or persecuted women wearing head scarves. In both portraits, women are objectively or suppressed by men. It is more common among Arab women, but there are rare stereotypes that describe Arab women as terrorists.