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Miss Representation
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- Year:
- 2011
- 85 min
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Mitchell:
The media isthe message and the messenger
and, increasingly, a powerful one.
Katz:
People learn more from media
of information,
so if we want to understand
what's going on in our society
in the 21st century,
we have to understand media.
Steyer:
If you think aboutmedia and technology,
they're delivering content
that is shaping our society.
They're shaping our politics.
They're shaping
our national discourse.
And most of all, they're shaping
our children's brains
and lives and emotions.
Mayer:
We estimatethat there's somewhere north
the internet every single day.
That's just a reach
that hasn't existed before
in terms of media.
Steyer:
Our kids todaylive on Facebook and cellphones.
The diversity of the platforms means
that those images
are impacting your kid 2417
and whatever restrictions
existed when we were growing up
simply don't exist today.
Kilbourne:
Girls get the messagefrom very early on
that what's most important
is how they look,
that their value, their worth,
depends on that.
And boys get the message
that this is what's important
about girls.
We get it from advertising.
We get it from films.
We get it from television shows,
video games, everywhere we look.
So, no matter what else a woman does,
now matter what else
her achievements,
how they look.
There is no appreciation
for women intellectuals.
It's all about the body,
not about the brain.
You all saw the famous photo
from the weekend
and, what, looking like 92 years old.
Breast implants...
did you have them or not'?
Because that's all over
in mainstream media.
I think if you waterboarded
Nancy Pelosi,
she wouldn't admit
to plastic surgery.
Pozner:
The fact that media areso limiting and so derogatory
to the most powerful women
in the country,
then what does it say
about media's ability
to take any woman in america
seriously'?
The media treats women like sh*t,
and it's horrible, and it's, like...
I don't know how we survive it
I don't know how we rise above it.
[Metric's "Help I'm Alive" plays]
I tremble
[echoing ] I tremble
They're gonna eat me alive
[echoing ] Eat me alive
If I stumble
[ Echoing ] If I stumble
They're gonna eat me alive
[echoing ] Eat me alive
Can you hear my heart
beating like a hammer?
Beating like a hammer
Help, I'm alive
like a hammer
Hard to be soft
Tough to be tender
Come take my pulse
The pace is on a runaway train
Help, I'm alive
like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Help, I'm alive
like a hammer
Captions by Vitac...
Captions paid for by
Discovery Communications.
Siebel Newsom:
There are moments in life
when you begin to see things
more clearly.
When I found out
I was pregnant with a girl,
everything came into focus.
and I was really frightened for her.
I couldn't imagine
that my daughter could grow up
to be emotionally healthy
and fulfilled
given our modern culture.
So I'm compelled to make sense
of all of this for her.
And I know I have to start
by looking at my own life...
the mistakes I've made
and the traps I've fallen into.
Because even though
I've had many privileges,
I haven't been immune
to the damage our culture does
to women and girls.
When I was a young girl,
I felt secure
in my place in the world.
But as with most girls,
things changed as I got older.
A few days before my 7th birthday,
in an accident.
I blamed myself for her death,
and out of guilt and sadness,
I tried to be two daughters
instead of one.
I channeled my pain
into excelling in sports and school.
But no matter how hard I tried
I somehow felt inadequate.
I became increasingly
susceptible to peer pressure
and the bombardment of media messages
telling me that being strong,
smart, and accomplished
was not enough.
To be a woman
meant constantly striving
for an unattainable ideal of beauty
and approval in the eyes of men.
So when a trusted peer
and, later, a coach
preyed upon my vulnerability
and violated me,
I was so frightened and ashamed
I completely shut down.
My self-worth
was at an all-time low
and I developed an eating disorder
that consumed two years of my life.
It took a lot of love and support
for me to find my strength again.
And although my experiences
are unique,
my struggle is all too common.
It's always hard
being a teenage girl,
but now the media disseminates
such limiting portrayals of women
and pervades
every aspect of our culture.
Is it any wonder teen girls feel
more powerless than ever'?
I want a different world
for my daughter and her generation.
But a lot has to change first.
We see so much in the media
that there's so much negativity
towards women
and their weight and how they look,
and it's just a representation
of the pressure we feel
to conform to man's ideals.
There's this concept
of the perfect woman
and because women
may not look that way,
they're scrutinized.
I was worrying about my weight.
And now I'm in ninth grade.
I'm still worrying about my weight.
like, at my old school,
I was told to, like, go throw up
[voice breaking]
or, like, go eat a hamburger
like, anorexic or something.
So I would, like, eat a lot
that I didn't have
an eating disorder.
I straighten my hair
just so I can fit in
when I have naturally curly hair.
like, in between break periods,
they will go to the bathroom
and put on like 10 pounds
of make-up
and, you know, comb their hair
and do all this pampering you know,
and you're at school to learn.
When is it gonna be enough'?
'Cause, you know, I have
a younger sister, and, like.
[voice breaking] She's like...
[sighs]
Kilbourne:
is more extreme and impossible
than ever before.
In the old days,
the perfection was achieved
through cosmetics and airbrushing,
but now it's possible
for that image to be
absolutely perfect
because of computers.
[camera shutter clicking]
You never see the photograph
of a woman considered beautiful
that hasn't been digitally altered
to make her absolutely,
inhumanly perfect.
Girls are being encouraged
to achieve that ideal
all the time.
They end up measuring themselves
against an impossible standard
and feeling themselves wanting
as a result of it.
Also, not surprisingly,
young men who are shown lots
of photographs of supermodels
then judge real women
much more harshly.
The most important thing
to understand
about all of these images
and how they affect us
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