Race, Gender, & Mass Media

H hotshotstly when I signed up for this class at the end of last family I was assort custodyt of looking forward-moving to it. When I heard the name of the class I thought it would be very interesting and give me a vernal perspective on the world and my place in it. To me, this class exit be approximately how the media portrays the sexualitys and races of the world how the advertise custodyts we see in our everyday lives appropriate the way we go about them.I would like to commemorate that I hump a little bit about this subject already. I becharm the news and try to stay up to date on topical events. I know about the rioting in Ferguson and I think I have basic knowledge of why its happening. The media plays a ample part in what the public sees so un little we argon actu solelyy at that place we dont know the whole situation. In this class I go for to uplift a lot more about how the media can obstruct the justice in these circumstances. I also hope to learn more abou t how the media portrays genders.I know it has a lot to do with gender roles, white men argon seen as more dominant. I also know that women are not looked upon as equals even in 2014. The media shows women as dependent on men when in fact that is not true. There are muss of independent and thriving women in todays auberge. Women are not as consider as men and they are often times paid less, offered less benefits, and discriminated simply because they are women. I know that in America and a lot of the world we are a society of rape culture.Women are taught not to dress specific says and to learn to defend themselves while men are not taught anything on the subject. I have seen rape Jokes on social media more than once and cant begin to understand why someone would think that something so serious is a Joke. It blows my mind that girls can be denied education because they are showing their shoulders. How can that be more classic than education and why are boys not punished for lo oking? I hope to learn a lot more about the gender area of the media because as a woman, it affects me in my everyday life.Mass media has a huge effect on the perception of race as well. Black males are often made out to be vicious and dangerous, Mexicans are seen as dirty and poor, and no one cares enough to distinguish the unalike branches of Asian nationality they are all grouped together as Chinese or Japanese. When a white person commits a crime, what the news move air is completely different than what they would air if a person of different race committed the same crime. A huge example of this and one that I already mentioned is the riots in Ferguson.I hope that in this class I learn why inequality like this is still happening in modern day society. Basically in this class I hope to learn a lot more about the way our society sees gender and race in areas such as the media. Out of all my classes this year this is the only one I really look forward to, and not Just because my friends are in it, but because Im interested in the content of the class. Hopefully I learn a lot this year about subjects that matter in todays society.