Miss Representation was
a beautifully executed visual essay on sexism in media. The objectification of
women in media is a well-known fact, but seeing so many concentrated examples
at the beginning of the documentary was sickening. It’s upsetting, because I
know there’s nothing I can personally do about it other than be angry about it
and point it out to others. We can’t control the advertisements that are sent
to us, and we have little control over what movies are made. Basically, to
enjoy anything, we have to suspend our standards and morals otherwise we’d have
to avoid almost every piece of media. I do believe that it’s possible to be
critical of a media and still enjoy it. For instance, I really like the recent
movie Kingsman for its humor and cool
cinematography in its fight scenes, but I was disheartened to realize that all
of the secret agents were white and mostly male while the two villains happened
to both be people of color with disabilities. But, when you realize how
frequent it is it becomes really upsetting. Every movie you see you think, “Why
is the lead of this film a guy? Why is there only one girl? Why are they
straight? There are so many options, so why?”.
It’s hard to be excited about new Batman movies when there have been
like 8 Batman movies, but absolutely no Wonder Woman movies. Or any female led
movies from DC for that matter. Why does Wolverine get three terrible spin off
movies, but Storm or Rogue or Mystique doesn’t?
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