Blog Post About "Miss Representation"

Virgil Films' "Miss Representation" addressed many problems regarding the lack of representation for women in the media and the issues that this creates for women in the real world. It presented an interesting statistic about the average teenager. It said that the average teenager spent 10 hours and 45 minutes on some form of media everyday. this was then used to show how harmful it the way that media portrays women is. It presented another statistic about women and girls with eating disorders. it said that about 65% of Women and girls have an eating disorder. They also said that depression rates among women and girls have almost doubled in women and girls from 2000 to 2010. This is caused by the amount of media that is consumed by women and girls everyday according to the video. Women are never shown realistic bodies in the media so they start to believe that women like themselves should have the bodies shown in the media that are regularly attained through Photoshop and are almost impossible standards to achieve. the video concluded that since teenage media usage won't decrease anytime soon, it is crucial to show more realistic bodies in the media to represent most of the population of women and girls. this way, the women and girls that consume media won't believe that they need to attain this impossible body standard that mainstream media today creates.

http://therepresentationproject.org/film/miss-representation/see-the-film/