Miss Representation

“Miss Representation” is a film released in January 2011, which shows the various ways the media represent women. In the short trailer it starts by showing quotes, various statistics, and input of various influential women, on how women are misrepresented in our society. Some statistics include on how women are vastly outnumbered by men in leading positions in the workplace and in government. It also claims that the media only uses women’s sexualized image for money, not because it is what consumers want to see in advertisements. For example, in a video explaining oversexualizing in young children Geena Davis comments, “…in G-rated animated films the female characters wear the same amount of sexually revealing

In the article, “Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meaning of Gender,” the author, Aaron Devor, is trying to convince his audience that gender shapes how we behave and relate to one another. He does this by using an educational approach, describing gender stereotypes, and making cultural references. These rhetorical devices serve his larger goal of getting readers to reflect on how their childhoods formed their genders. “Maleness and femaleness seem “natural,” not the product of socialization.” (Devor 527) Throughout his article, he makes us wonder whether or not gender is recognized through socializing.

in the way women are portrayed in modern culture and society. The documentary forces us to

“Miss Representation” is a documentary film that is made by Jennifer Seibel Newsom. This film talks about many issues from the roles of females in politics, and the ways in which media negatively impacts women. The film examines how the media have contributed to the underrepresentation of women. Therefore, eventually, the film is persuading people to be open-minded, and study how media affects our perception, judgment, and behaviors. The targeted audience of this film is all people who live in America. People should be convinced to change their mind about stereotypes on women. Jennier effectively convinces the audience that the mainstream media has mainly contributed to the under-representation of women through the use of statements claimed

The Miss Representation documentary film by Jennifer Newsom explores how media contributes to the under-representation of women in influential positions. This message is portrayed by delivering content through media and technology as well as advertising partial and/or often degrading interpretations of women. The consequences are becoming more and more dreadful. In today’s world, composed of a million stations, people will tend to do more and more shocking things to break through the crowds. They resort to violent, sexually offensive, or demeaning images. Jean Kilbourne, EdD, filmmaker, Killing Us Softly Author and Senior Scholar Wellesley Center’s for Women states, that “it creates a climate in which

The Netflix documentary Miss Representation by Jennifer Siebel Newsom explores how the media contributes to influence the young girls and boys in America. Every day in America we are showed this unrealistic look of what the so-called perfect image of women is supposed to be from the TV shows we watch, the movies we see, to the magazines we read, to the online social media outlets we visit. This documentary shows the negative effects it's having on teenage boys and girls in America, Miss Representation interweaves between the stories of teenage girls, telling their own experiences and how the media has portrayed the image of women to them. They share their stories from pressures they feel they have to live up too from how the media shows them

In Miss Representation, many female actresses, news anchors, politicians, directors and producers talk about how females suffer a lot of social, political and economic inequalities in today’s society. There are double standards against women in magazines, on TV, in movies, the news, politics, and the workplace. The media is an influential part of modern culture. When women are portrayed as objects for men to use -- never as the protagonist or president -- and when female news anchors are objectified, this will cause girls of all ages to begin viewing themselves as objects. Girls grow up in a world where their voice does not count; where our culture does not embrace them in all of their diversities, where

In the documentary Miss Representation, the theme of underrepresentation of women is explored. This underrepresentation of women in positions of power is caused by women’s portrayals in the media. The different stereotypes that the media presents are placed on women on the daily basis by those who come into contact with the media, which leads to greater levels of underrepresentation. Everyone gets the messages the media presents because the media in one way or another touches everyone.

Miss Representation, the 2011 documentary about how the mainstream media depicts women, and how that depiction is partially responsible for the reason why so few women hold positions of power in the United States. Miss Representation provides refresher course in feminist politics, a reminder that, even as much progress as women have made, men still hold most positions of power in both politics and media. That things are unlikely to change until we reshape the minds of men and women in America. It is also focused on the sexualization of women in the media, and how women are objectified as sexual objects for men or targeted in the media and being fat shamed by tabloid magazines. While this is true, the film is biased because it is produced, written,

The Sundance film documentary “Miss Representation (2011)” was written, produced and directed by, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, an American woman whose goal is to empower women. Newsom is a “filmmaker, actress, speaker, and advocate for women, girls, and their families” (IMDb). The documentary explores how the mainstream media’s denigrator depiction of women contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of leadership, intellect, and power. To persuade the viewer the author uses First, Pathos to express the emotional battles young and old women, and even herself as a mother of a daughter endure in society due to the negative media portrayal of women. Furthermore, she uses Ethos Secondary which builds on her moral character as she first hand has lived and experienced being objectified, violated, and even battled with an eating disorder herself.

In the documentary, Miss Represented we explore how mainstream media contributes to the under-representation of women in influential positions, circulating limited and often disparaging portrayals of women. Through the documentary, we learn how much of deep gender bias Americans have. For example, when it comes to woman in power many women don’t have that power. Woman are typically under the same stereotype when it comes to American media. All woman are portrayed as objects in media, never the protagonist, or in some cases if they woman do have power, woman is portrayed or labeled as a woman who has sacrificed family and love to make it where she is. Even then, she still has to watch herself because she has a man who is trying to peg her down. For example, in the documentary they speak about how a woman can be tremendously empowered and yet she will never get the full credit she deserves.

The female body image is highly influenced by the mass media and the media’s portrayal of women, ‘70% of college women say they feel worse about their own looks after reading women’s magazines’ (University of Massachusetts & Stanford University, 2006), the portrayal of women in the media has an unrealistic approach and brings out body dissatisfactions and this results in eating problems and disorders.

The film Miss Representation was mostly based on the looks that the media’s pays attention to in regard to the American discourse of women’s bodies. I believe that media shouldn’t focus on the women’s bodies but instead the way that women thinks and also their knowledge that is way more valuable than the women’s appearance. The effect of internalization of being sold the same standards of what women should be and should have high standards when it comes to how each woman should ideally look. This is thought-provoking in my perspective because it truly does affect the mindset of women especially in today’s society and a society that have been judgmental since the huge popular woman figure of Marilyn Monroe. If women don't have high expectations

The message that was presented in the video “Miss Representation” was that the media is a powerful tool to shape the world. However, the media has been utilized not for the benefit of human being instead in the most negative way that anyone can possibly think of. It has indeed shape the representation of women globally in this generation. It degenerated the name of woman and what they are capable in this world whether they are use for political, and/or economical. The trailer for Miss Representation presented this powerful message through the usage of a video of selected people being interviewed about feminism and the cruelty that they endure during the twentieth century. This highly sensitive message in the video of Miss representation is

The theory of Objectification (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997) is a structure for comprehending the experience identifying as the female gender in a sociocultural connection that sexually objectifies the female body. Although women have progressed through history by gaining equal rights and the opportunities to work in the same field as men, these accomplishments are overlooked to encompass the idea that women’s own personality comes second place compared to the ideals and fantasies of men in the patriarchal society we live in. Media fragmentation has led to women being increasingly objectified in the media. In magazines, billboards, television,