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The medium that I have chosen to show as gender stereotyping is "Bad Girls Club".Bad girls club is a "reality" tv show that displays the life of various girls that all come from different backgrounds but all share the same struggles with troubled lives and party lifestyle that proves they are the baddest female.The shows Wikipedia page describes the television series as" The show focuses on the altercations and physical confrontations of seven highly aggressive, quarrelsome, and unruly women. Each of the women tend to have psychological and behavioral problems. Mischievously sexual and rascally moments are also captured among the women. All seven women have different backgrounds and personalities. They are introduced to the show based on their capacity to be a "charismatic, tough chick." The cast, deemed "bad girls", enjoy a luxurious lifestyle in a fine mansion for three months, during which they must obey specified rules. Their lives inside and outside of the house are chronicled and recorded."This information show that producers of the show purposes choose girls with high tempers and uncontrollable behaviors so that the outcomes of interacts between the girls will ultimately end in explosive catty exchanges.
This show is gender stereotyping because it shows girls in the stereotypical light of being young,stupid,catty, and down right outrageous.The girls in this show are exploited and end up in situations that will produce outcomes that follow the general idea that women in their 20s are sexually explicit, have no regard for others feeling as long as they come out on top and crave a party lifestyle no matter the repercussions.We see examples in "Bad Girls club:redemption" where girls from previous seasons are brought in to focus on the challenges that they face but nothing really changes for the girls that need help the most.Girls like Judy a girl from the season are clearly faced with mental illness that can't be helped with just counselling, and the environment of drinking and party exemplify their problems.Judy is described as a young misguided girl that faces mental illness, but doesn't see the problem at hand so she winds up in physical confrontation with other girls and drinks heavily to wash down her problems.She has image issues that keep her from being true to herself and rarely sees the consular to help her better herself and in the end goes home for verbally threatening other girls with gun violence.
This kind of medium appeals to females because it shows the girls of the shows struggles to become the baddest.This appeals because in days of now girls want to be the baddest like their idols beyonce,nicki Minaj,and Amber rose.These women sell the life of have a lavish life and owning everything they do,so to see regular women that live the average life but have the "bad b*tch" persona makes watching to show even more appealing.Watching to show may make girls feel like their behavior of meanness to be acceptable because the women of the show have gotten far with there attitude of it doesn't matter what you think as long as still happy.
This shows intent was to draw in viewers for the Network its broadcasted on and leave the viewer intended ages 21-30 wanting more,with preview videos of violent fights and girls ganging up in dramatic confrontation.Although the women in the show have ages ranging in 21-30 they have a childish mentality of 15 year old girls with temper tantrums.These girls are nothing more then clowns that the viewer behind the screen laughs at.Behind the scenes the produces edit the videos to make the girls seem foolish and uneducated.Making the fights and drama comical and a spectical to be seen.
In a reality many would say that the show is just to show the women in the way they do because even if they were not in the house they would still go about the things they do on the show in real life but this is just not so and the reception of the show has been negative since episode one with comments like "Many adolescents have emulated The Bad Girls Club.[25] The show has also received negative criticism from African-American viewers, believing that it is "not what being a black woman is all about."[26]Mary Chase Breedlove of Reflector objected that "there are several TV programs devoted to acting as trashy and mean as possible ('Bad Girls' Club, ' ...)".[27] The New York Daily News suggested that Bad Girls Club was the equivalent of professional wrestling.[28] Kris De Leon of BuddyTV described the show as "crude, rude and pointless, but sort of addictive to some people. " as posted by the shows Wikipedia page and During the episode "The Wicked Witch Of Key West", a stranger at a bar offered to buy drinks for Kristen Guinane and Christina Marie Hopkins. He spiked the drinks with PCP hallucinogenic pills, and Guinane became intoxicated. She claimed to have suffered bruises on her body when the man grabbed her and handled her roughly. Guinane reported that the producers of the show did not want to identify the man on television for fear of a lawsuit. She blamed the drug for her hitting cast-member, Lea Beaulieu, in the face, leading to a fight.[37]" . There just is no justification for the show bringing down young black women or not stopping the date rape that could happen to cast members and then not identifying the man because of fear of lawsuit.The show humiliates cast members does not improve self being for the cast or viewer's.
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