Isn't it Ironic? No, it's Sexism.
TW: reference to abuse but no graphic details. Popular media comes in many forms - TV and film, advertising, trailers, magazines, books, music video, social media - and with the rise of the internet and streaming services, these forms are becoming less distinct from each other. Young people look to media - especially music media - for information on sex, gender and relationships, on how to act and who to be. And over the last couple of decades, there has been increasing concern about the sexualisation of popular culture, especially music videos, and the impact on young viewers. Sexualised images in media have been described as “a wallpaper to our lives, all pervasive but hardly noticed” [1] . Typical representations show women as submissive, sexually-available objects, whilst depicting masculinity as aggressive, forceful and dominant, and these stereotypes are so prominent in all forms of media that we barely notice or question their presence. There are concerns that these rep...