Violence against Women in the Media

Today we are talking about how media is used to violate women, define women's identity and what it means to be"Ideal" women.

Check Chilli's blog about how media is being used to marginalize women.

"...The double standards of the media become all too apparent when one publication reports a story on how a woman's husband beat her up ("thanks magazine for telling herstory") and then filling the rest of the pages with images reinforcing exactly how and why we do not conform to the standards of woman. The media have stolen our identity, and also our right to have our own unique, identity. Bombarded with Billboards of the Wonder Woman (Did I explain my concept of the Wonder Woman? It goes something like this: "I wonder if ANYBODY actually looks like that!"), the media is constantly violating our sense of self."

How is violence against women portrayed in the media? How is the media a form of violence against the media?