Comments on: The Lois Lane Factor—Gender As A Media Reform Issue http://www.feministpeacenetwork.org/2008/06/04/the-lois-lane-factor%e2%80%94gender-as-a-media-reform-issue/ UrGently Fierce Feminism In Perilous Times Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:02:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: JENNIFER DREW http://www.feministpeacenetwork.org/2008/06/04/the-lois-lane-factor%e2%80%94gender-as-a-media-reform-issue/comment-page-1/#comment-82009 JENNIFER DREW Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:48:29 +0000 http://www.feministpeacenetwork.org/2008/06/04/the-lois-lane-factor%e2%80%94gender-as-a-media-reform-issue/#comment-82009 As rightly pointed out there are only two types of women the media consistently focuses on. Either women are victims of men's violence or else women are vilified for straying from patriarchal misogynstic notions of how women should behave. Men of course are never vilified for the way they dress or behave because they are all individuals and oddly they are predominantly white men. As rightly pointed out there are only two types of women the media consistently focuses on. Either women are victims of men’s violence or else women are vilified for straying from patriarchal misogynstic notions of how women should behave.

Men of course are never vilified for the way they dress or behave because they are all individuals and oddly they are predominantly white men.

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The thing that really upsets me is how this teaches girls that they will be viciously ridiculed if they stand up or stand out and teaches boys that it’s ok – and even required to prove their maleness – that they condone such ridicule of female public figures.

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]]> By: Mary T http://www.feministpeacenetwork.org/2008/06/04/the-lois-lane-factor%e2%80%94gender-as-a-media-reform-issue/comment-page-1/#comment-79820 Mary T Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:47:56 +0000 http://www.feministpeacenetwork.org/2008/06/04/the-lois-lane-factor%e2%80%94gender-as-a-media-reform-issue/#comment-79820 But...women are certainly the SUBJECTS so very often as the media move from obsessions with Paris Hilton to various missing or dead women to Britney Spears to ... Hillary Clinton. Seems they love to see women fall...from grace, from life. There's no woman like a woman brought down and shamed publicly week after week by the mostly-male punditocracy...unless it's a woman missing or murdered. But…women are certainly the SUBJECTS so very often as the media move from obsessions with Paris Hilton to various missing or dead women to Britney Spears to … Hillary Clinton. Seems they love to see women fall…from grace, from life. There’s no woman like a woman brought down and shamed publicly week after week by the mostly-male punditocracy…unless it’s a woman missing or murdered.

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