In visual media, men are
often shown with more facial prominence than women, a manifestation of sexism
that has been labeled face-ism.
The present research extended the study of
facial prominence and gender representation in media to include magazines aimed
at lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) audiences for the first time,
and also examined whether overall gender differences in facial prominence can
still be found in mainstream magazines. Face-ism emerged in Newsweek, but not
in Time, The Advocate, or Out.
Although there were no overall differences in facial prominence between
mainstream and LGBT magazines, there were differences in the facial prominence
of men and women among the four magazines included in the present study.
These
results suggest that face-ism is still a problem, but that it may be restricted
to certain magazines. Furthermore, future research may benefit from considering
individual magazine titles rather than broader categories of magazines, given
that the present study found few similarities between different magazines in
the same media category—indeed, Out and Time were more similar to each other than they were to the
other magazine in their respective categories.
Below: Face-ism Indices of Men and Women in Two Mainstream and Two LGBT Magazines
By:
Department
of Psychology, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, United States of America
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