Women in Music Videos (cont.)

We see that in movies women are degraded because of how they are portrayed. They are portrayed as sexy, available and at the same time devious in these male audience films. In the hero myth there is the archetype of the trickster, "a mischievous figure that is always causing chaos. The woman is used as this character in many films therefore portraying women as misleading and in the way. Movies with male heros tend to make the woman the one who is weak and unhelpful to the hero. In this way there is no room for equality between the female and male characters in these types of films. When women are seen as lower and unhelpful this makes a woman's status seem unimportant in even real life.