Blog Post 6- Miss Representation

The documentary Miss Representation gives viewers a comprehensive look of some of the most pressing gender issues present in today’s society. It begins with the host, explaining how this issue came to be of vital importance to her at the birth of her daughter. This creates a more personal view for the audience who can likely relate to seeing a young girl close to them grow up in this world. The video also uses dozens of compiled media in montages of footage that demonstrates the hyper-sexualization of women in mass media. This quick succession of clips not only works to reveal just how massive the amount of such content exists but in a way it also works to catch the attention of the audience before explaining why this is problematic to the audiences who these techniques are often targeted towards.  
To me this is a very important issue because I believe treating any marginalized group as somehow having less worth than whoever happens to currently hold the power creates a great rift in modern society and prevents any possibility of cultural advancement. I very much believe that a future is possible where we can celebrate our individual differences of things like gender, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation without resorting to judging and degrading anyone who is dissimilar. I also think there is a trend in media that (while still small and not perfect) supports this. Though still rare in the grand scheme of things, more popular media is being created by people who don’t fit Hollywood typical mold of the middle aged white male. As a result of things like this documentary there is also more of a focus on more empowering messages towards women.