Blog post 6

The documentary shown in class “Miss Representation” depicts multiple examples of how women are portrayed in modern media such as pop culture, politics, and even television shows.  The documentary explained how many young adults learn so much from the media and what they see. Our society today uses multiple formats of media including television, Facebook, video games.  Most images of women in media are showing them as sex appeal, not being smart enough, or if smart not sexy and thats bad to be.  The documentary discussed how media in the United States is mainly shown from a male perspective.  Making an ideal image of what the perfect woman should be, and in doing that creating many psychological problems for young adult woman throughout the country.  Sixty-five percent of women and girls have an eating disorder.  It also explained how woman are seen in status of power, such as politics.  The average stereotype of a person in the government is male, married, has a college degree, ect.  so woman right from the beginning have a disadvantage. Another thing I found interesting was the difference between female actors and male actors.  In many movie roles woman typically get a main role in a film featuring a drama or the sort to speak “chick flick”.  Where as men get a role thats usually action packed, with fighting, and death, and saving the helpless woman character.  And films that feature a female lead in an action film usually still have the stereotypes of helplessness.  The media wants us to believe what they show on tv, the internet or any other format to be true.  When the reality is everyone is different in their own unique way, traits that would be seen in a woman may be seen in a man and vice versa.  The blend of gender roles have been intertwined for many years now and it will only continue to become more equal.