How has the TV and media influenced the GENERAL attitudes of men and women toward the opposite sex?

Question

John - Read the question again, dear.

Answer 1

Television is fueled by money.
Money is earned by selling products.
The best way to sell products is to create a 'need'.
The best way to create a 'need' is to create insecurity.
Watching TV creates insecurity by making EVERYBODY doubt their own worth, the quality of their life, increases awareness of 'bad' breath, body odors,etc. and offering products from cars to mouthwash that can make one feel better about ones self.
Television will never make anyone look good until they can find a way to make money off of making people look good.
This is true of men and women.
Good luck

Answer 2

I'd guess that yes, tentatively and generally speaking, for those who watch a lot of TV or are otherwise highly exposed to media.

But I would still say that one's own experiences, friendships, histories and family relational patterns influence their attitudes far, far more than television/media.

And I also think that media has a tendency to affect one's attitude toward oneself more than his or her attitudes toward others.

Answer 3

Your rather " hung up " on social science explanations of human behavior, aren't you? I think men's and women's attitudes toward the opposite sex were rather observable long before there was anything as modern media around. More likely our attitudes have affected the media, as it mirrors society more than shapes it. Your " direction of fit " is backwards.

PS Read the question again; it is still ideological rant without empirical support; mere assertion.

Answer 4

Of men: Lazy, stupid, accident-prone, terrible with kids, unromantic, selfish.

Of women: Shrewish, controlling, ignorant, cold, unfulfilled, selfish.

Answer 5

The media portrays women as intelligent, capable, confident, tougher than men(able to kick any mans *ss or group of men for that matter), independent, better educated etc etc etc.

Men are portrayed as ignorant (even less intelligent than pre pubescent girls), slobs, womanizers, oppressors of those tough women, incapable, bigots, uninformed morons.

These examples are especially true in commercials where you will never see a man who is smarter than a woman, or even little female children.

Feminism has to revert to these brainwashing tactics to indoctrinate those easily influenced people and children into their fantasies about their being equal to men !