Essay On Miss Representation

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Media Presents a Negative View of Women. In the video “Miss Representation,” the author, Jennifer Siebel Newsom highlights women’s image in modern society. The author shows different viewpoint of how media impact the way that society perceives women in general. Women are suffering what media portrays their body images. Nowadays, social media is used widely in the world. There is a lot of useful information in the world from social media; however, some advertising also presents negative images of women. The advertising from some companies such as Dove’, and Victoria Secret communicate wrong messages about women to people. Young children usually focus on women’s sexy body instead of focusing on another outlook of women. Perhaps the advertising will …show more content…

The portrayal being women as stupid is the first image that media presents as a contradicting view of women. Based on women’s images from the advertising, the society believes that the most important part of women is their bodies. Many products from advertising introduce women’s bodies instead of showing women’s intelligence. In a documentary title “Miss Representation,” a young girl stated that intellectual women believe it was all about the body not about the brain.” This idea indicates about the women’s job is to show their body instead of using their knowledge to make society grow. In the modern society, people look at the many excellent inventions and talents of men while they only look at women’s bodies. Since the women’s image has been consistently portrayed falsely, society creates a negative stereotype about women. Moreover, Jean Bulkuorine from this video says that boys got the messages women’s value depends on their look. This implies that boys believe that real beauty should be based on looks. Also, social media has perceived women as nothing more than sex objects. In fact, many advertisements reduce the value of women by violent images. For

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