The Problem with Women Empowerment in the Media

Is that nobody knows how to achieve it, and how to show it, because no one understands what it really is.

And no one knows how to achieve it, because no one understands what it really is. Specifically, we’re speaking of how it portrayed and achieved in the media.

The idea of presenting strong female characters came to our media to challenge the former idea that women are weak. That idea existed in our social thoughts and always made its way into fiction (how many thousands on thousands of complaints have there been from women pointing at being objectified by the awfully skewed, reductive, and often delusional male gaze?), and it was the most frustrating thing to watch and witness when you did not relate to that warped mold — and who would? A woman is a human being, not a pile of projected ideas or cliches, which no one — no doubt too preoccupied by the potency of their illusion — at the time seemed to understand.

And when we look at the etymology of the word woman, I’m hardly surprised.

No one seemed to know how to approach women because of many patterns I’ve already described. And in a world dangerously biased towards male perception, we saw a full splattering of those false and socially born beliefs held by men about femininity. That women are just broodmares, tools to get kids, the death of a man’s dreams and curiosity and his obligatory pit-stop when he must inevitably reproduce as…