Now a days, the media tells you and retells you that you are not good enough; everything they portray suggests that you need to look and act a certain way in order to “fit” into society. From a very young age we start seeing messages through media on how supposedly everyone looks like, in magazines and advertisements on television all the women and men have the same physique making you believe that everyone should look in a certain way. Hegemony leads us to think that maybe something is wrong with us and we need to make a change. It can influence you in many different ways, that maybe we don’t think about and is having an effect on us. Media can pretty control what they want the people to do; they can broadcast certain advertisements or shows over and over until people start taking them as natural and part of the society. Media can influence you in many different ways and is up to the viewers and consumers to accept. Everyone is different, and we should not be expected to act or look the same way.
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| With this picture we see how the media is making fun of this man for not fitting the qualities of what a "man" should look like. He does not look tough, muscular, or intimidating; therefor the media starts attacking him by making jokes and sarcastic comments. Man are man, and we are all different; we should not have standards from which we should live by. |
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| In this picture we see a little boy flexing and acting tough. This just shows us that from a very young age, boys are expected to act tough and manly. He is just a few years old and he is already acting how he should according to what we hear and see on television. |
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| The Aggies women basketball team, are a perfect example of using women as an object in order to get attention or publicity. In this picture, the girls look like the last thing they do is play basketball; they are dressed and posed provocatively instead of showing pictures of their basketball skills. |
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