Miss Representation was a documentary detailing how the
media influences women and girls with their self body image and how it affects
our daily lives. Additionally, it documents the low number of women in
leadership roles in companies and politics. The statistics that were presented
were astounding. You can see how the media distorts how a woman looks by
reading any magazine or watching TV. While I knew about photo shopping of
images regarding facial features, I was very surprised to see that it is also
done on the body (i.e. making models thinner and/or bustier). How do we fight
this battle to change the way that the media portrays women when you have
movies and TV shows that portray women as nothing more than a sex symbol? The music industry is not any better. Besides
many songs with down grading lyrics towards women, there are the music videos
that have women wearing next to nothing and shaking everything they got for
entertainment purposes. There was a young girl in the documentary who told of
her sister cutting herself because of how she perceived her body image. It was
her way of dealing with the emotional pain that she was unable to verbalize to
others. That really saddened me that a young girl would do something so
destructive to herself because of how the media has distorted everyone’s view
on how women should look.
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