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The media's portrayal of men and women.

In an imperfect world we see the ways that the popular media uses gender tensions everywhere. The truth is that sex sells, we know that. For example, the challenge that advertisers face is how to use "Sex sells" the best. Some advertisers do this better than others and the ones that truly understand gender tension will in the end sell the most. In today's media, women are primarily objectified more often than men in most types of advertisements and movies.
Modern society is fixated on the appearance of a woman. Society believes that ideal women should be thin, pretty and big breasted. I often wonder why we put so much emphasis on the way a person looks. I've talked to some of my friends and asked them, "Who do you think should be more attractive in a relationship, the man or the woman?" Surprisingly the men and even more so the women say, the women should be. I believe that Hollywood had has a great influence on appearance. The movie......

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