After watching the video Miss Representation I found a few quotes and statistics to be interesting. One of the first statistics that caught my eye was "65% of women and girls have an eating disorder". This quote alone alarmed me because I believe that media has a huge impact in that statistic. There are so many women and young girls who are exposed to what the ideal body type "should" be and they strive to be something that is in fact impossible or not achievable because of the excess amount of Photoshop to that image. From an early age girls are given barbie dolls to play with, which are a complete miss representation of an average girl. The media feeds society these ridiculous beliefs that "thin is in" or that to be perfect you must be a size zero. All of this just leads to these women and girls going to extremes to achieve these stereotypical guidelines to be perfect. So the 65% of women and girls who have an eating disorder is very alarming, considering it is the media who is responsible for this behavior because of the lies and expectations they throw at our community.
I also found that quote "you can't be what you can't see" very interesting. It's interesting to me that women are not going for the jobs that men have taken over just because they don't see other women doing it. It is hard to imagine yourself as the president when your an average looking woman with a family and a degree when all there has been are men presidents. I do agree that it may be hard to be what you don't see everyday, but I think as women, we should strive to be that very thing you don't see everyday like a woman president or a very successful, highly praised business women who gets all of the family leave time she just might need.
Asheli, I like your interpretation of the quote "You can't be what you can't see". I interpreted it a little differently. The women the media projects aren't real. I never see women like they are portrayed in the media. Women can spend their whole life pursuing what the media defines as a perfect woman but will never achieve it. Women can't be what doesn't exist. Either way, I don't think it matters that our interpretations differ slightly. What really matters is that we both recognized one of the causes of women inequality.
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