Miss Representation

According to the documentary titled Miss Representation, the media of today is using stereotypes of women on advertisements, movies, magazines, television shows, and posters while pressuring the female population to worry about their looks. Such thinking has caused women to become less likely to vote and less likely to run for a political office within America, despite attempts by feminist movements to push forth changes within the country. It is also clear that women comprise only about 17% of Congress, despite 51% of the American population being female. Since people learn more from the media than from any other source of information, the country is producing a generation that politically and socially influenced by the media's gender-based stereotypes which cause women to become obsessed with their appearances and sometimes cause them to become depressed. Indeed, the documentary seeks to express its protest against the exploitive behavior of the media towards women while seeking to have women treated as equals instead of second class citizens. The influence from the media has also make people believe that a female president would only humiliate and injure the country and its reputation, which ultimately leads to smack talking towards ambitious female candidates like Hillary Clinton in terms of how they were dressed rather than hear their message. America is a patriarchal society that is predominately Protestant and it has been throughout its history, especially when it comes with the 1950's, when women were expected to remain in the house and do the work for their husbands. Being a 21st century capitalist democracy, the United States must rid itself of outdated, Babylonian-styled behavior and give women the respect their deserve as equals rather than continuously treating them as if they are nothing more but mere living objects brought into existence only for the lustful desires of perverted men.