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Views on gender are constantly evolving and changing, being debated in public and discussed in private. Share your media on gender, and keep the discussion going....

Views on gender are constantly evolving and changing, being debated in public and discussed in private. Share your media on gender, and keep the discussion going.

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Hyperlink: http://truthseekers.cultureunplugged.com/truth_seekers/2009/...

Contributed by nilankur das

The media convey messages as horrifying as they used to be in the 60s, even if they look different. Young women are no more invited to dream about becoming wives, mothers and housekeepers (not only, at least): what is sold like female success now passes through TV shows, humiliating outfits and scripts, disfiguring plastic surgeries, scandalmongering papers, starvation diets, advertising campaigns with women looking like dolls, now even ministerial posts… and, to keep up with tradition, countless beds. Female success passes, in a word, through men. Today, just like yesterday.