Last week in AP Lang & Comp we began to discuss and watch the documentary called “Miss Representation” the documentary talks strongly about gender roles and mainly about women and how we are viewed and made to be on the media and politics. The documentary really caught my attention being that I usually don’t think about things regarding women much with media, but it really began to frustrate me and got me going. In today’s media we “women” are made out to be something we aren’t, and we are very degraded on so many levels, making us want to be something that just isint possible.
The definition of gender roles is: the public image of being a male or female that a person presents to others. In the few segments I have seen it talked a lot about how media shapes teen girls minds into wanting to be something that is impossible. It degrades girls and causes terrible things like lower self esteem issues or maybe even anorexia. Compared to about 30 years ago when being curvy was considered “beautiful” then you have today’s society where there just isn’t really a perfect. Your either fat or to skinny, there really isn’t any “in-between”. So what do we do to change that, oh yeah nothing? I feel this documentary is trying to make a stand to girls around the world.
Every day you see some TV show or commercial or magazine that shows girls being all “sexy” and usually when you see this they are size 0, blonde hair, face full of make-up, and of course a nice fake tan, something that isn’t your “average” girl. Well yes that does appeal to guys, but that makes us teens not feel very good about ourselves. Guys call girls like that on TV “hot” and then you have all these teens wanting to be what guy’s want, which really in reality just screws everything up.
A person that always comes to mind is Jessica Simpson, she used to be that size 0 model and big time celebrity but now days she is her true self. There is a video about her personally talking to an anorexic model that had to deal with being called fat which turned for the worst, now being that she only weighs 85 pounds. Jessica is now living her life with a nice little family and doing what she wants, not what others want.
If we keep living like this what is it going to be like 30 years from now? What are women going to look like and what will they in general be like? If we want this outcome to be good then we all need to do something about this, we need everyone to be beautiful in their own way and actually feel it themselves as well. (472)
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