MISS REPRESENTATION: MEDIA IS A FRIEND TO NONE

     According to Miss Representation, media is a friend to none.  Media is a harmful drug, one we know can hurt us, but still crave it so consistently.  Media impacts both men and women, though at different levels, creating unrealistic expectations girls and boys feel they need to reach in order to be accepted by society.  Media builds these expectations by generalizing an entire population of young people into one being who they project on screens internationally.  The documentary goes on to say that media has created a national problem, a generation infected with self objectification and degradation towards women.  Though I agree with this, the filmmakers of Miss Interpretation failed to correctly prove these points.  They relied on false cause to portray points like: women are raped because their rapist is a man who had grown up on video games that degrade women, ignoring that fact that there are just some really bad people out there. Though, the filmmakers clearly portray the ultimate causes of media clearly through the use of logos and pathos.
     Media will always be an issue, but in order to save future generations from undergoing to same suffrage media has put upon us, we need to become aware. Both sides, the consumer and the producers need to be aware of what media is really doing to us and with time, we could fix a lot of the problems media has caused. The little girls and bos of the future can look at themselves and be proud of who they are without makeup, extreme masculinity, or other anxiety causing expectations. We need to realize that the real us is not the commercialized version media has created. I am an individual with layers, not the sex object media wants women around the world to be.