Blog Post About "Miss Representation" #2

One of the shocking statistics in Virgil Films' "Miss Representation" was that only 17% of congress is made up of women. The video made a point of showing how little people cared about the intelligence of a woman and how much people cared about the appearance of a woman. All anyone ever discussed during Sarah Palin's campaign was her looks. This should not be an issue that people discuss when choosing a leader. The video concludes that this is, in large part, because of how the media portrays women. Women are never really displayed in media for them to show their intellect but rather to flaunt their bodies or stunning facial features. This translates to real life because people are only ever focused on how a woman looks and when a woman decides to run for a political position, even though her intelligence and ideas should matter the most, people judge her ability to be in a position of power only based on how she looks. The video also stated that most of the opposition to women in positions of power is coming from other women. Women are constantly shown in the media that they should compete with one another and get into "cat fights" with each other. They are also never shown women in power so they believe that that is how it should be. Women are strongly effected by the presence of women in the media nd how they are presented because they are presented in superficial ways and therefore see themselves as objects that should be pretty to look at and that don't need intelligence.