Sexism in the news

Whenever you open a newspaper like the Sun, the Daily Mail, or in Germany the Bild, or whenever you open their websites there is one thing that you are very likely to see there: sexism. They are not even trying to hide it. And it doesn’t even matter whether the women an article is about are celebrities, non-celebrities, old, young or what body shape they have. They are all treated equally, in this case equally bad. And the problem is that not only men are the authors of such articles, women are, too!

They shove headlines like this right into your face and they don’t even see what’s wrong about that. For them it is satisfying to write such articles. But women are facing a big struggle because of all those articles that say “Look at X’s cellulite!” but on the same site there is another one that says “Look at how skinny Y is! Does she have an eating disorder?”. Women don’t even know what is right because everybody thinks it’s okay to tell them what they personally think is the right thing to do, eat, drink, etc.

There are things that are way more important than random headlines of tabloid articles, like the pay gap. It would be way easier to focus on such important things if women didn’t have to constantly bother with other people questioning their outer appearance, behaviour, etc. One step would be to stop writing and publishing such articles or to change the way they are written from a negative judgement to an encouragement to like and accept your body the way it is.