Women Portrayed In Music Videos

Women Portrayed In Music Videos

The television entertainment industry has grown dramatically in the past decade especially the music video industry. In the past, there have been music videos for select songs, but now there are complete channels dedicated solely to showing music videos. With many young female entertainers currently at the top of the charts, many of the music video producers have taken the opportunity to depict women in a negative and inferior light. Their bodies have been depicted on the screen as the ideal build even though most are quite skinny compared to the average� female their age. This has led to a whole host of gender prejudices, confusions regarding sexuality, dissatisfaction with the body, and eating disorders especially among teenage girls.

Current music videos depict women as objects by focusing on some individual parts of the body instead of the whole. In Christina Aguilera's new video, for example, the cameras often show a few frames of solely he...