Luis Ramirez Blog #3

The documentary "Miss Representation" explains to the viewer about how the media throws out their view on women and how there is nothing to them than just how they look. The media rarely focuses on woman in political woman as opposed to woman on Reality TV Shows. This being said, a statistic that "Miss Representation  throws out is that we watch an average 31 hours of TV in a week, listen to 17 hours of music, and have 3 hours dedicated to movies, creating an average of 10.45 hours a day of media influence. This influence could change who we are (if female) and how we portray woman (if we are male or female). The same media influence is basically molding our political discourse, our culture views of what woman should look like, and altering the minds of the youth in mainly negative ways. When they film the high school students, they talk about how they are unable to be appreciated/accepted in anyway other than what people see on the outside, not the inside. It was claimed that 78% of girls hate their bodies by the time they are 15, around 65% of them have developed an eating disorder, and 17% of these girls cut themselves. The USA population is 56% women, but only roughly 15% are of congress. These woman only receive 3% of the media. While other woman being portrayed as just a physical body, receive the remaining 97%.  Woman shouldn't have to be subjected to just their looks. Rachel Maddow is a CNN news anchor, yet the only hate mail she really receives is based on her looks, not her content. She doesn't seem to care who thinks she is ugly or who says what about how she looks. She only cares to see that her content is accurate. There is still no parity equality for woman to men in anything really.