Love Island Portrayal

 

Something that I find really interesting is the depiction of women in reality tv specifically, and the best example that comes to mind for this is love island. The last two seasons there have been multiple examples of the show framing women to be seen in a specific light, all by the editors own doing. For example, there was a contestant named Kaylor who was known to be the "emotional" girl of the season. However, while she this may be partially true, the show really played into it and made this the only image of her that people saw. They would compile clips of her upset, change the music to sad songs, etc to play into this stereotype of the "emotional woman".  Though there is nothing wrong with being emotional, and open with your feelings, the way that they portrayed this and made it seem like there was nothing else to this girl other than her feelings, was really damaging to her and the publics view of women. Even for this post, when I looked up "Kaylor Love Island", one of the very first photos that came up was a photo of her crying, and I feel like that really does say a lot.