Sex in Media Presentation PDF

Sex in the Media Pop culture teaches about changing sexual mores Helps normalize things once seen as deviant Harmful ideas of what is normal sexually, objectify women, expose children to victimization The stereotypical portrayal of minorities as sexualized Vio...

Sex in the Media Pop culture teaches about changing sexual mores Helps normalize things once seen as deviant Harmful ideas of what is normal sexually, objectify women, expose children to victimization The stereotypical portrayal of minorities as sexualized Violence and video games *Contains mature content Pop culture is inherently sexual, serves as a ‘safeguard’ Pop culture teaches sex  The Latest Trend Choking The Idol Euphoria Mean Girls 50 Shades of Grey Lovin on me (song) It’s overwhelmingly young women being choked, not men Doctors who study CTE and concussion in NFL Pop culture helps change social mores Transgender Characters In 2023-24, 24% of characters on TV were LGBTQ, down from 34% in 2022-23 Disabilit y Oscar winners 27 disability characters 3 with actual disability Harold Russell Marlee Matlin Troy Kotsur, CODA 26% American population disabled Actual exchange: Adam Sandler: What is happening? Make her trailer accessible Maysoon Zayid: I don’t want to be high maintenance Sandler: Look around. We’re in Hollywood Recommend: Crip Camp on Netflix  “Moral Panic” Fear that something is deviant and threatens well-being of society (not actual harm) Conveyed by mass media Moral panics around sex – Pregnancy, sex on TV – Elvis Presley – Catching AIDS Moral panics eventually disappear Older women & sex Feminist & Post-Feminist Theories Feminist theory – gender inequality – Degrades and promotes violence against women – Gendered language – “Male gaze” Post-Feminist theory – gender progress – Not binary – Power not just exploitation – Differently defining masculinity  Race & Sex TV news showed Black homeowner, white prostitute, but people misremembered it the opposite  Studies show… TV programs with sexual content average 4.4 scenes per hour Between 1998 and 2005, the number of sexual scenes on TV nearly doubled. The more sexual content kids watch and listen to, the earlier they are likely to have sex Main source of information for teens about sex, dating and sexual health comes from the media Media can be an effective sex educator when it includes specific info on birth control, STDs – 68% of TV shows had sexual content in 2005 – Only 15% discussed risk and responsibility – This doesn’t include music, video games, Internet  Music videos contain 93 sexual situations per hour, including 11 that are hard-core 1 in 5 children will be approached by a sexual predator online 60% of female video game characters are presented in sexualized fashion Some media can teach us about sex while others can harm our ideas of what is normal  Video Games Moral panic over violent video games – Columbine – Dungeons & Dragons 2011 Supreme Court decision against regulating video games Moral panic cycle for new forms of entertainment media  Studies Show People already prone to violence seek out violent media, not the reverse. Correlation vs causation People shown violent movies don’t enjoy them more than nonviolent ones In surveys, people say they don’t prefer violence But not children Same for video game violence.  Disclosure A documentary on how transgender and other marginalized groups have been depicted in popular culture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y sbX6JUlaEc  Attendance Question What is a moral panic? – give me a sentence definition. Give an example, either from class or a new one that you know about.  Don’t bother with this next slide This is just an alternate attendance question; we are not using it in this class.  Attendance Exercise In a breakout group (or by yourself if you are not in class “live”), find an example of some phenomenon in pop culture related to sex or violence that I have not covered in this lecture. On the lecture attendance assignment for today, write a sentence about it and give me a URL linking to it. This is a group project, so everybody in the same breakout group put down the same example and url