Read the essay below and evaluate according to its language use. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper with 200 words only. (parang reflection.. yoko sagutan to hirap Kaya patulong:)
Gender differences and biases have been a part of humans' everyday lives ever since anyone can remember. Anthropological evidence has revealed that even the humans and the hominids of ancient times had separate roles for men and women in their societies, which relates to the concepts of epistemology. There were certain things that women were forbidden to do, and similarly, men could not partake in some of the traditionally reserved activities for women. This has given birth to the gender role stereotypes that we find today. These differences have been passed on to our current times;. However, many differences occur now that have caused a lot of debate amongst the people about their appropriateness and have made it possible for us to have a stereotyping threat by which we sometimes assign certain qualities to certain people without thinking. For example, men are blamed for undermining women and stereotyping them for traditional roles, and this could be said to be the same for men; men are also stereotyped in many of their roles. This leads to social constructionism since reality is not always depicted by what we see with our eyes. These ideas have carried on in advertising, and the differences shown between the males and the females are apparent in many advertisements we see today. This can have some severe impacts on society as people begin to stereotype gender roles in reality.
There has been a lot of attention given to the portrayal of gender in advertising by both practitioners and academics, and much of this has been done regarding the portrayal of women in advertising (Ferguson, Kreshel, & Tinkham 40-51; Bellizzi & Milner 71-79). This has led many to believe that most of the advertisements and their contents are sexist in nature. It has been noted by viewing various ads that women are more concerned about their beauty and figure than being shown as authority figures in the ads; they are usually shown as the product users. Also, there is a tendency in many countries, including the United States, to portray women as being subordinate to men, as alluring sex objects, or as decorative objects. This is not right as it portrays women as the weaker sex, being only good as objects.
Simultaneously, many of the ads do not show gender biases in the pictures or the graphics, but some bias does turn up in the language of the ad. "Within language, bias is more evident in songs and dialogue than in formal speech or when popular culture is involved. For example, bias sneaks
