Media and Women

Abstract

The result of this masculinity is that the image of women working in the media has been made an image of an open, free and ‘sleeping with whomever’ woman in the society. The image of a Kameri woman in Doordarshan serials is such that she is standing alone somewhere outside the family. This image is not real. Nor does this room express sensitivity towards women. This image is an introduction to the masochistic image of men, for whom a single, free woman is the most desirable thing because he can dream of robbing his happiness from her. Not only this, the ‘juiciness’ contained in the news of rape or eve-teasing in the newspapers also suggests that the news of women for men is now like a provocative news which it presents in an even more provocative manner. It is clear from the extra imagination with which the news of rapes is written in newspapers that the men who write, rape many times even in reporting. The news of ordinary women’s ordinary life’s ordinary struggles does not get priority over women’s sensational news, that is why the world of newspapers is mostly masochistic where woman is always a sensational news. There is no serious discussion on these topics within the media.