Blog 2. Women in the media.

After watching Miss Representation by Jennifer Siebel Newsom today in class it made me realise so much more about how the media portrays women. It open my eyes to some many differnet things one of these was as simple as disney characters, disney characters are ment to be a high light of your child hood but this documentary left me in compelte shock when they said that majority of the female charcters are wearing very little clothing for example:

These images set off a bad example right from the start. Not only does the media portray women like this in childrens films but also adult films where the women is basically a sex object. Watching this documentary showed me how women in movies are almost always lower than men, this happens when the man fights off everyone for the women showing she is incapable, the man is practically alsways the boss unless it is in films like the Devil Wears Prada, when yes a women is the boss but she is then put out to be a horrible person and goes on to explain how she has given up everything like her family and so on all so she can be the best. The media puts women in to a category of being very dependant on others when really that is not the case at all.

 

Im looking forward to completing this documentary as it is really making me more awear of what the media is doing.