For the longest time men have always been seen as superior to women. With this always being a present factor in everyday life there has been some impacts of it on women. They are often looked down upon and are set to do certain, "womanly duties." Like maintaining a nice and happy home for raising children.Growing up as a girl and with this mindset in most people I find that there are some struggles that we face. While watching this video made me see that this will be a present force within my whole lifetime. It showed so many examples of successful women who still deal with the people who still assume their job is to be in the kitchen. Like for these strong smart women who are running for office aren't seen by their thoughts and knowledge, but by their looks. As seen in the video women like Sara Palin are more seen as an object rather than a person. When shed make headliners they were move of how short her skirt was or this was a revealing top rather than her political views. And for Hillary Clinton some men would try and say she wouldn't be fit for president because shes a woman. The movie showed multiple times where a man would imply she counted run the country because women are, "B*tchy," or they are to emotional,or can get mad because of their period. Now not all men out there aren't like this but there is still a handful who think in this,'traditional,' way.
I think that because of the way media shows women some girls feel they need to set themselves to some standers to fit what men want. The movie had mentioned how 53% of 13 year old girls don't like the way they look and I can only imagine that number has gone up a large amount. Its sad to see that we are still trying to fit into what a media portrays women be. The size 2 beautiful blonde hair blue eyed girl that never eats and all the boys love her. But if the media can change the way they view women maybe we can start having girls that are comfortable with themselves and know that they can a person and not just some item to men.
I agree with your point that if the media can spread this disaster, maybe it can be the one to clean it up. I think that since this documentary came out, there have been some changes on the world's views of women, but obviously not enough. Everyone looks to some form of media, and by showing more female leaders instead of "objects" women and girls alike can become more empowered and find success where Palin and Clinton unfortunately didn't. Hopefully, more media platform will take on the task of spreading the MissRepresentation message so that we can all be treated equally, as we should be.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with your comment on unrealistic beauty standards. Girls are taught through the media that this, and only this, is what beauty is. Obviously that’s not true, but it makes girls think they aren’t pretty if they don’t look like that. This is a damaging mindset, and can be really harmful to young girl’s self esteem.
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