Past, Present, but Where is the Future?.
Confucius says "One hundred women are not worth a single testicle-(handout). A quote men and women alike may smirk at, but in reality could be the cause of how we think of women today. We all know the stereotypes "the forever beautiful, the supermom, the sex kitten, the helpless. Whatever the role, television, film and popular magazines are full of images of women and girls who are typically white, desperately thin, and beautiful. There are even myths about women in religion and in Greek mythology. Since the beginning of time, women have been considered the weak sex, the inferior, helpless, and uneducated. The advertisements in today's society aren't helping women get back their power; it is causing women to lose ground on what we are trying to do all along, regain power.The consequence of this is shattering and is causing violence against women, due to the fact that we seek power and class.
In the society today women are portrayed as more than a pretty face or a nice figure. "The press is increasingly responsible for supplying the information and images through which we understand our lives- (Rhode 99). Advertisements have now begun to represent the stereotypical attitudes of women. Now when people think of women they might think of Bitch, whore, prissy, passive, weak, unathletic, inferior, uneducated, or fake. Society and advertisements have bashed not only the portrait of women, but now their character too. So not only do women have to be beautiful, but also nice, smart, powerful, strong, and athletic to be perfect. This traps girls and women into a photograph that is like a fairytale, one that would be nice, but unattainable. We are trapped into this photo that we are supposed to look and act like. A photo that has been around for longer than time can tell.
Many religions and cultures consider women to be less than man. The Greeks, in the myth "Pandora's Box", had implied that women were responsible for all the suffering in the world.