Review of "Miss Representation"

Last week, I saw a video called “Miss Representation”. It was begun with the quote by Marie Wilson, President and Founder of The White House Project, “You can’t be what you can’t see.” She began the film when she was pregnant with her first daughter. She talked about the concern of the future environment that would affect her 2 daughters. She compared the different situation when she gave birth to her first two kids. Her boy got a congratulation letter from a government official looking forward him to become a great leader in the future, while her elder daughter got a lot dolls and pink princess stuffs. She found there was a serious gender quality issue, especially in media. She claimed that the media is distracting girls from becoming leaders that women were always valued by their bodies and beauty while men were seen as the nature born leaders and dominators. People are culturally accept male leadership is more valuable than female’s. So she called for all the girls and women to challenge the media’s wrong portrayal of women and girls and be brave to stand out to tell their story. Though she said that there were not an effective way to suddenly turn this notion among public, but there were several things people could do to contribute the progression. Women are 56% of this country; they should take advantage of it. Also, they could spread the right message, be aware of early education for children, and fully exploit their consumer power and language power. At last, she claimed that what she expressed was not letting female to go against male, but to awake women to go for their right.