My thoughts on the documentary Miss Representation and other forms of media:

Last week in class we watched some of the film Miss Representation directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom. In the film we saw how woman are mostly portrayed as sex symbols e.g. large chested, skinny and beautiful females. This common stereotype is used in most media such as, TV programs and films.It was interesting to see how popular television programs such as the hills, gossip girl and modern family were all produced and directed by men. This means females such as, teenage girls are mostly portrayed as being skinny uneducated and pretty. This common stereotype is seen by a large percentage of females world wide which causes us as females to start comparing ourselves to these stereotypical images. These images are unrealistic ideas of what woman should look like and how she should act. The film also highlighted the low number of female producers and directors within the media industry. The lack of female input into the media industry allows males to generate the same old unrealtisic stereotrypes of females which are based on their vision of what a female should look like and act. After watching some of the documentry it made me aware of how badly we as females are miss representated in the media. For instance I was watching an episode of Modern family today and it showed three female characters all suffering from PMS (pre menstral syndrome)and they were seen by the male characters as being "menstral monsters" this genretaes a stereotype that when a woman is on her period she will be evil and horrible. This is oboviously not the case as near the end of that episode it showed the male character reflecting on his words he decides that woman are not really "menstrual monsters". This episode showed me how the media industry is slowly changing their attitudes to women and encouraging different types of woman to be shown on TV and films e.g. Amy off the film pitch perfect where she is seen as a larger woman who is very humorous.