Miss Representation

Miss Representation is a 2011 American documentary film written, directed, and produced by Jennifer Siebel Newsom. It explored how mainstream media contributes to the under-representation of women in positions by circulating often misguided views of women. The media is supposed to be the messenger but let the message in society shape the views and ideas of the ideal woman. The women in real life are trying to live up to unrealistic standards yet portray a realistic look at how a women is to be when seen in real life.  That is 2 different standards and actualities for other females to look up to. Just about every commercial you see shows a women who is a size 2 or 0 but yet healthy and with a perfect skin tone.  These are the airbrushed and photo shopped women who are to be seen by all that want to look and act as such. While these ideas are not far fetched, this is not what we want our women see as the standard of true beauty. Women should have the ideas that women especially young girls can achieve their dreams. That they can take on the powerful men of this world and still be a woman. That a woman does not have to try to please everyone because she herself is pleased at her accomplishments. Men (gay or not) are not seen to have this image of bitchy, shrew, mean, or evil just because of what comes out of their mouths or how they say any statement to any subject. The typical male wants to have his cake and eat it too but for decades the woman has not allowed him to bake his own cake and milk the cow. For decades there has always been a woman portraying feminism to let other women to see how it should be portrayed and yet this will continue until a man has the same ideals and images from his bedroom.