Miss Representation Essay

The documentary Miss Representation sheds much needed light on how women are disempowered by our society by emphasizing the need for education, perseverance, and mentorship for girls and young women. Women are often only seen only as objects of beauty and something to be had by a successful man. Yet when women are educated and in a position of power they are seen as being unattractive, old and boring. Because of ideas like these it is so important that we urge women to value themselves and persevere. Mentoring young girls and women is one of the key ideas to helping women in this fight with society.
The idea of women being seen and had by men is something that has been going on for a very long time and is not only socially accepted but encouraged

Being able to see women who have successfully reached their goal, despite their appearances and struggles is the positivity they need to persevere. In the documentary they speak to several successful women in the media industry like Katie Couric, Lisa Ling, and Rachel Maddow who all shared their struggles they had to face in their journey. They’ve made it to a place few women have been able to get and stuck through it despite the criticism they faced about their appearances and

It is up to us now to lead by example and encourage women to persevere in all of these male dominated careers. Men need to stop sexualizing women and seeing them as objects of beauty that they can possess. Society has to let it be known that behaviors such as those are not acceptable and will not be tolerated. For a country that prides itself in the idea of quality for all, we seem to fall quite short when you look at other countries around us and realize how far behind we really are. We live in a country where women make up more than half of it, yet they only account for 17% of our congress. At this slow growing rate it will take our great country 500 years to catch up to what is already happening. We allow so much of lives to be run by what we see and by what we think is socially acceptable and because of this we have put so many limitations on ourselves and on one another about what we are all capable of achieving. Its up to us to change this way of thinking and to show women respect and to encourage them in their endeavors. Like anything else it will start small but just the fact that someone was willing to make a film about this issue shows that we are all moving in the right direction. This film alone has been the stepping-stone and voice for all young girls and women to be