Sexist media oppresses/controls women for centuries. What makes u think they'd suddenly change this year?

Question

*By ultrasound, in China if the fetus found to be a female, they abort it.

*Between 100 and 140 million girls and women in the world are estimated to have undergone female genital mutilation and 3 million girls are estimated to be at risk of undergoing female genital mutilation every year. Female genital mutilation has been documented in 28 countries in Africa and in several countries in Asia and the Middle East.

*In America women are brainwashed to think their worth is based on their looks and if they mutilate their bodies and stick silicone in them, they would be worth more. (Girls asking for breast implants for their 16th birthday)

Answer 1

Sadly I do not think it is likely to change any time soon. The China issue over birth, is a modern interpretation of something that is thousands of years old in practice, discarding the female child in certain cultures in lieu of a male child. I am aware that China has been controlling its gender proportion for a while, and one has to wonder what the female to male ration is now? Have they caused their birthrate to spiral? If they have, aside from the injustice, what are the consequences likely to be?

Female Genital mutilation. Three words that make me cringe. I would like to howl at the top of my lungs about the horrors inflicted by those of organised faiths, in this instance Islam, yet reason suggests while this practice is frequently carried out in Islamic countries I can not in all good conscience solely lay the blame at the feet of that one faith. It is an atrocity of the highest order. Were it to be practiced in Europe, I am sure there would be a carrier or air group speeding their way to explain 'Democracy's' position on such practices.

To the problem of the 'Body beautiful' that has risen dramatically over the last twenty years. I think it is sad. I think it is indicative of a slide in western culture to the trend of 'Quantity not Quality'. A stick thin size zero, with b*****s that would illicit an appreciative nod from Dolly Parton is not my idea of perfection. Far from it. Beauty in my opinion is found in variety, not slavishly manufactured using music, magazines or movies as a blueprint. It's not the fact that I find it vulgar that a person can wander in off the street and ask and recieve a new face in a matter of weeks, its the 'cowboy' way that it happens. Cosmetic surgery for burns and other debilitating injuries is a noble pursuit and any doctor that can give someone back their face after such a trauma should be treated with respect. Conversly, those that make their fortunes from the vanity of others should take a long hard look at their choice of profession. The 'Hippocratic Oath' states, no harm. Aiding the fraudulent pursuit of eternal youth to the 'well heeled' body dismorphic is not medicine. I feel I must point out however, that though I invoked the argument of, 'No harm,' I am strongly pro-choice. My reference to the Hippocratic Oath, concerns the implentation of surgery as a fashion statement. I do not think that there is anyone within the ranks of pro-choice or pro-life that would support such a motive concerning the subject of their own debate. An abortion is not a fashion statement.

In concluson, I think the problem is not solely down to one way sexism, male to female, I think it  is indifference. Yes, the majority of media control is attached to a p***s. Not all though. There are women out there in media and not just sat in front of a camera to add window dressing to the news. They are behind the lens, they sit on boards, some own media companies. They are part of the problem. Popular media, that which advocates the body beautiful and 'Quality not Quantity', is in the business to make money. s*x sells. What you or I may consider demeaning, a female TV exec, could argue it as empowering and get away with it. The problem is no longer just  men exploiting women, it is now women exploiting women and they are better at it.

Answer 2

The media hasn't been around for centuries. Go back a century or two, and the only "media" were books or some newspapers, read only by the upper classes.

I think the first two examples you give are less about media than they are about established traditions in those countries (and in China, the established values combined with a one-child policy.)

Only the last example is really an example of media controlling women, I think.