The Unreal World Jennifer L' Pozner

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The Unreal WorldJennifer L. Pozner

• BREAKING NEWS!
• The story of
• white-washed reality on Reality T.V

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Propagate classical gender stereotype

• Reality T.V shows such as ABCs The Bachelor and
  Extreme Make-over, Foxs The Swan, Who Wants to
  Marry a Multi-millionaire? And Married by
  America, UPNs Americas Next Top Model and NBCs
  Average Joe and For Love or Money --- propagate
  the classical gender stereotype that women should
  be kept barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen!

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A cattle market

Women on these shows are often paraded as dumb
animals about to be auctioned to the highest
bidder at the matrimonial market
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Ms. Right Ms BeautifulMr.Right Mr.Wealthy

• At the end of the show, the message that goes
  home to the viewer is
• The dumber a woman is, the more successful she
  will be at the show
• The final trophy that she carries home is always
  the MAN not vice versa

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Fixed Format

• The other contestants can also be put in four
  fixed categories
• The Antagonizer -who declares shes not here
  to make friends
• The Naïve Waif -whos searching for my Prince
  Charming
• The Slut - who plots to take our connection to
  the next level in the fantasy suit
• And the Wretched Weeper - who wonders, when
  shes dumped, Whats so wrong with me that
  someone cannot love me!

Wretched Weeper
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Subscription to Classical Racial Stereotypes

• The undisputable winner is always a white woman
• Women from minority races are tokenized or
  eliminated shortly
• Even where a woman of color is shown, she strokes
  the classical racial stereotype --- she undergoes
  cosmetic surgery to correct her features and
  gain mass approval

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Reinforce insecurities

• These shows reinforce insecurities bred in women
  by decades of inaccurate reports of man
  shortages and broken-down biological clocks.
• Jennifer L. Pozner

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The Surviving Beauty Myth

• Women are valued as Perfect 10 simply for being
  pretty, passive and intellectually unthreatening
• So when they go for cosmetic surgery even the
  doctors dont inform them of the high costs or
  risks involved

The craze for cosmetics
Succumbing to the glamour