Not a soul is safe on the internet. People take the internet for granted, but ignore if someone is lurking on the other side and watching. The internet has evolved since its early conception; to a point where people can form exchanges and observe nature from their living-room. In the modern era, people have taken things to a completely different level. The internet seems to want and or purposely portrays woman as weaker or dumber humans than males. On the World Wide Web; people have portrayed women as fake beings and lower-life forms. This can be proven by one of the many rules of the internet that has been around for nearly 2 decades. The rule states that “There are no girls on the internet”. This rule implies that the woman on the internet …show more content…
Females have had the worst of it though; from exposing themselves because of how an integrated system, process, or because they can get a quick buck from doing what they told from others on the web. The previously mentioned Twitch is a mainly a video game streaming website where Gamers can play video games and present themselves Live to viewers willing to watch their stream. Twitch is also used for professional business presentations, video life journals, and visual art design. In recent times, though, there has been a girl on Twitch that dress skimpy or wear exposing clothing to attract men in their content and hope to get a paid donation for easy cash through a system that allows viewers to make a comment, send money, and have them presented on the live feed for others to see. there is a great number of men that have built a strong hate against these women and even another woman have stated that these streamers are giving a bad name to the term “gamer girl”, which is just the female equivalent of a male …show more content…
It is truly unfortunate when a woman succeeds in something and she would see the internet’s reaction. People think that the woman will become too successful and start to think that she’s better than others or they might think that the woman already has thoughts as to why she is better than others. In most situations that is not the case. There is also the concept of trolls. Trolls are people on the internet whose main goal is to annoy, bully, and make fun of people. Women are easy targets on the web because they don’t know how to defend themselves against those who attack. Social media like Twitter and Facebook are also worse for women. On these platforms, women have said things that men don’t agree with or will make a response to another’s post that will anger men or others that will feel
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Society stereotypes women in almost all social situations, including in the family, media, and the workplace. Women are often regarded as being in, “Second place” behind men. However, these stereotypes are not typically met by the modern day woman....
Cyberspace as a frontier is open to all comers, but currently the majority of explorers and accomplished users appear to be mostly white males. Deborah Tannen, in her article "Gender Gap in Cyberspace," discusses some of her experiences and conclusions regarding this difference in usage of computers by males and females.(The full name of the author and of the article need to appear in the first couple of sentences. . .) She sums up her main point (main claim)when she asserts, "Men want to force computers to submit. Women just want computers to work" (141). (Claim is locked to a concrete piece of text to help show how the analyst is working. . .)This claim of fact is blunt and simplistic but works very well to attract the attention of her audience.(Names the claim and transistions in to the next paragraph about audience.)
When stereotypes about women are thrown down on paper many women (usually called feminist) take offense to them. They don't believe women are the weaker sex, or think the man is the worker of the household. They don't believe a male should put women on a pedestal, they just want to be equal. They starve for equality and criticize those with different perspectives on how it should be
Part of this unease has to do with cyber terrorism. When the internet was invented, it was a great way of communication in order to keep families and friends in contact with each other.... ... middle of paper ... ...
This is seen in popular cultural too often than is comfortable for such an advanced modern culture as ours. Women who are ambitious are seen as bitchy and conniving while men are seen as ambitious. Examples can be found in politics and entertainment. Prominent figures such as Senator Hillary Rodham-Clinton and former Attorney General Janet Reno, were forced to take a more masculine persona, because people were so threatened by their power. Senator Clinton was always seen as a woman to be
Gender is not based on the sex of a person, but the cultural norms of that society. Gender roles are based on the norms and standards in different societies (Flores 2012). Each societies has their own set of social norms, and the identities that fit those norms. In the United States masculine roles are associated with strength, dominance, and aggression. Women in the US are expected to be more passive, nurturing and subordinate (Flores 2012). Gender roles not only assign traits to men and women they affect the way men and women are supposed to think and act. Women are held to a different set of rules than men are. For a woman to show anger in public is highly stigmatized, and looked down upon. When a man does it it's considered normal. When women are in the media they are given a different set of g...
...the images of women are presented through technology. Women can easily access negative images through technological aspects. Advertisements, the internet, celebrities and other technology present women in sexualized and demeaning manners. Showing women in positive manners can shift the negative image of women and empower their role in society.
On a daily basis people are exposed to some sort of misrepresentation of gender; in the things individuals watch, and often the things that are purchased. Women are often the main target of this misrepresentation. “Women still experience actual prejudice and discrimination in terms of unequal treatment, unequal pay, and unequal value in real life, then so too do these themes continue to occur in media portraits.”(Byerly, Carolyn, Ross 35) The media has become so perverted, in especially the way it represents women, that a females can be handled and controlled by men, the individual man may not personally feel this way, but that is how men are characterized in American media. Some may say it doesn’t matter because media isn’t real life, but people are influenced by everything around them, surroundings that are part of daily routine start to change an individual’s perspective.
“Be a man and suck it up,” and “real men don’t cry,” are all phrases we’ve heard at least once in our life, whether it was directed toward us or not. We live in a society where men can no longer harvest any feelings or enjoy the simplicities of life, which is the stereotype of men. Although, times are changing and newer generations are taking control and breaking the normal, more specifically we are breaking the stereotype of men. Joe Keohane a journalist and editor for Esquire magazine states in his article “How facts backfire,” that backfire is a phenomenon in which people with a strong set of beliefs will not change their belief even if there are facts given (1). With the Internet, more importantly social media we are able change the world by sharing our ideas to millions of users online. As we are changing the stereotype of men by letting them embrace their feminine sides through the internet; more importantly on social media, it has caused an unexpected backfire to the movement.
The World Wide Web and Internet are great places to study, work, or even play. But there is an ugly side of cyberspace. Cyberspace reflects the real world and some people tend to forget that. Cyberstalking and harassment are problems that a large number of people (especially women) are realizing. (Jenson, 1996, p.1)
First, the internet has put many lives in danger from kids, to adults. The internet is a place where many killers hide themselves in. Many adults and teenagers never know who is hiding behind the internet. Many people chat on the internet to meet someone but
Being involved socially online can open many doors to hackers and scammers. Posting too much information online can be a way for scammers to steal information.
Similarly, 1 in 33 children have been involved in an aggressive interaction, and 1 in 17 have been threatened or harassed (Bremer 420). Considering how susceptible kids are to predators, the Internet is clearly not a safe environment for kids to be on all the time. Aside from the social effects of the Internet, there are many mental health effects as a result of the overuse of the Internet. Numerous people praise the Internet and its ability to educate young people. More and more schools are switching to online learning to help children academically.
The human need for affiliation creates the challenges and rewards of finding acquaintances, forming close friendships, as well as intimate relationships. Through technological advances cyberspace, or the internet, has become a place of multiple opportunities for people to be able to fulfill that need for affiliation. Websites, chat rooms, and online communities are just some examples of virtual platforms for people to seek others, come together, and find that special someone. These opportunities can result in positive outcomes allowing people to achieve what or whom they were seeking, but they can also result in harm to themselves and others, resulting with damaging consequences. Cyberspace does not come with a warning label. People who use the internet as a means to seek relationships are at risk of being exposed to positive as well as negative results. Being made aware of some of those risks and dangers, and realizing that forming relationships on the internet is not all fun and games, may be ways to help promote a positive future for cyberspace as a place to form successful relationships.