My Issue with Media

Ok..so as I was going through my daily routine of browsing news, which also includes a couple of magazines, I came up with the new cover of Esquire for it's April issue. I have to say I have an issue with this cover, not only this cover but how media sexualizes Latin celebrities.

I don't watch "Dancing with the Stars,"and the Latin actor that is making a buzz in William Levy. I mean don't get me wrong Sophia Vergara and William Levy are BEAUTIFUL humans that got gifted with wonderful appearance genes.

Let's start with my analysis of this cover. I know it's Esquire and it's set audience is men. But she's Latin and we all know one of the stereotypes that Latinos have is that we're beautiful, especially women, and the we possess these wonderful voluptuous bodies.

Sophia does, but here is where I have the problem. Not only is she "hot," but the word SEX appears in bold in a huge font size.

I just feel she's putting more into the Latino stereotype than it already is. I don't think there was a need to put the word for her to sell SEX since she already sells it for obvious reasons. She's just feeding more into the Latino stereotype.

Another Latino feeding media with stereotypes is Cuban actor William Levy, which got his stardom appearing in Mexican telenovelas, but the actor now wants to make in a breakthrough through U.S. mainstream media.

The way he's approaching it is by doing "Dancing with the Stars" and taking off his shirt. We all know and see he's gorgeous, but does he have to strip to show his abs to while dancing salsa?

There's just more in being a Latino. It's just showing the world that we can dance and be sexy. We need to stop these stereotypes but celebrities are the ones that just continue to feed mainstream with these ideas.

Hopefully, there's other people Latinos that can show the world that those stereotypes are just not what everyone is and represent Latinos in worthy way.