Miss Representation Speech

For the first time watching of "Miss Representation", the perception was not only popular culture’s opinion on gender roles, but this documentary movie also showed how social media plays such a major role in teenagers and young adults alike all around the world. This documentary movie discusses various issues of gender inequality. The movie covers many issues from the lack of females in politics, persuade people to open-minded, and study how media affects our perception. The author- Siebel Newsom- effectively convinces the audience of Miss Representation that the media is so derogatory to women in power. This film shows concrete examples of logos, ethos, and pathos in order to persuade the audience to believe that this is an actual problem

Actually, the media have shown so much negativity toward women. In television, advertisements, and video games, women are hyper sexualized and degraded. For instance, the highly offensive content gathered by Newsom – a Hollywood actress turned activist – is assembled in depressingly cohesive montages: Jessica Simpson is writhing on a soapy car in a crimson string bikini; rapper Nelly is showering a faceless woman’s pulsating crotch with dollar bills, and a young girl featured on Toddlers and Tiaras, no older than six, adjusting the enhanced bust of her glitzy pink pageant costume while her mother glues on fake eyelashes and touches up her bubblegum lipstick. Indeed, media is shaping our society. People read and see what the media exposes to them day by day. Moreover, today, the young generation are very familiar with face-book and cell phone, and they learn it quickly. Therefore, the bad results will affect the young generation behavior. That is not only the author concern but also the concern of

The author- Siebel Newsom- effectively convinces the audience of Miss Representation that the media is so derogatory to women in power. By appealing the audience 's emotion, the audience 's idea, and the audience 's observation, the author persuade the audience to believe that this is an actual problem and take action to equalize the social gender stratification. Through many points made throughout the documentary movie, people realized that it is important to see two sides of the spectrum, and popular culture is no different. Prior to watching this film, people have never seen how women were portrayed to the public, mainly to the young females of America, and this really helped to open their views on this situation. All in all, the study of popular culture is important, especially in this social media era where information spreads out like wildfire. In this generation, this information is affecting people even youth, and popular culture depicting women the way it does can lead to future dilemmas. Miss Representation does a tremendous job of bringing forth these complications in a beneficial way for both genders