This short movie called “Miss Representation” was a very eye opening film for me. I did not realize how backwards the world is today especially in the media. Men say that women shouldn’t be in power because they are too emotional and would cause too much damage because that would get in the way. However, men on the news and in politics will literally sit and talk about how a women looks ugly, or has gotten too much surgery and wears too much makeup. That sounds like emotions to me! It’s very hypocritical the way society is set up today which makes it hard for anyone to actually get anything done – men and women. To me it seems like women are more focused than the men since all they care about is what women look like when they should be focusing on real world problems.
The more important thing that the film outlined was the impact that society has on body image for women. There have been advances in this because women are starting to realize that they are given one body for the rest of their lives so might as well love it and embrace it. Although that is a good thing, there are still so many young women and girls that are being influenced by these expectations of what an unrealistic body should look like. The desired bodies in the modeling industry are very skinny and unachievable unless you eat air for every meal or curvy with a big butt and breasts which requires surgery. It can definitely be frustrating growing up and seeing beautiful women that you look up to and knowing that you can achieve that desired body unless you mutilate it, whether that be starving yourself or going under the knife.
