Representation of Women in Political Cartoons in the Era of the 2000's

Hey everybody,



So the main group question to recap is the representation of women in the media since the 1950’s. I’ll be looking at censorship within magazines and political cartoons or with what I have researched so far, probably also discussing, the non censorship the media practices when representing women. I’ll be looking at it by eras: the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, and 00’s. I’ll be working backwards, starting with the 00’s. So to kick it off, here are two political cartoons from the 2000 era. All right, here is the first link http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=5918 . This political cartoon basically puts out there how the daily mom states about how hard it is to be a mom, balancing her kids and her career as well as worrying if the day care is affecting her children. She is being represented as the normal woman in society, balancing her career and children, however, still displaying her emotions of being a caring woman. While the woman continues speaking of her worries, the lazy husband in the background doesn’t seem to care and lets the woman take on all the responsibilities. In this cartoon, the attitudes and worries of women are stereotyped and classified, which is obviously overplayed by the media. What I find even more troublesome, is when the husband obviously confirms he isn’t listening to her, the cartoon ends. Not allowing the woman to say anything back or let him have a piece of her mind. Here, the media still represents, the man being the head of the household although he doesn’t do much, as well as the figure with no emotions and listening ability. The media still represents in this one cartoon, that woman are still belittled by men and by ending the cartoon, making it seem like woman aren’t to speak back to men, as if they are on some kind of throne. The second cartoon link is this, http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=17107 . In this cartoon, it has the height of two adult women. One regular adult woman is average size, while the other adult woman is super short. The adult woman that is super short is said to be the size of a woman in the eyes of the Supreme Court. Obviously, here the media is flat out saying that women still have no say or seen as a person with no say that matters in the Supreme Court. So, overall the two political cartoons display that the media still represents women to be subject to men and their opinions with no say in the subject matter. Obviously, the censorship issue in these cartoons is the fact that the women’s rights are present today and their opinions do matter and not all women are subject to keeping their mouths quiet when it comes to men. That’s all for now. There will probably be more to come for the era of the 2000’s because there are still magazine covers to analyze. Any comments or opinions, I would appreciate it. Until next time.


~Krystale