Cultural Misrepresentation Of Women

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This film does a great job of explaining the cultural misrepresentation of women in the media. The reason why this film does so well is because it’s narrated almost exclusively by women. There is no better way than to get a woman’s perspective about an issue than to get it straight from a woman. It showed how women are now in high positions in government, corporations, and other various occupations, which they are deserving, but not at equal numbers as men. There was never a point in the film that I personally felt ignored, glossed over, or grossly misrepresented by this film because men were never the intended topic. The message is to raise attention to the bias content about women is today’s media world. It also was about the marginalization

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