Achiever vs. Alluring good looks

We have been watching a movie called miss representations in my AP Lang class and it talks about how girls are represented like objects. They are not represented by there accomplishments but by the things they do wrong or how good looking they are. This movie brings up many questions and I thought I would address a few specific ones.

How did Hillary Clinton win senator of New York?

Some say it was because people felt bad for her because her husband had cheated on her. They give other reasons of why she has won but, "all that her husband put her through" should not be one of those reasons. Here is just an example of what people said won her senator of New York. Why can't women just get credit for there accomplishments. Hillary Clinton obviously deserved to be Senator of New York because she went on to now become secretary of State and you can not blame that on her husband. Some women do amazing things and become amazing things by hard work but never get credit for, the only get noticed for things they do wrong,

Then there are the women who get important jobs and great opportunities just for their looks. A really great example for this is Katherine Webb who was just cheering on her boyfriend at his football game and got so much attention from the hosts just for being pretty. She wasn't asking for it as you can see here. She is now getting so many offers like co hosting, modeling, and interviews. What hard work did she put into that? She didn't have to do a thing her alluring good looks did everything for her.

Why are women just represented like objects? Its like people don’t care whats in our heads but only about whats on the outside. When Katie Couric started reporting she had trouble with comments from others because she was wearing short skirts, they were not that short, but that is not the point. the point is that people were not listening to all the important thing she was reporting about but they cared more about criticizing her.

The world needs to change and media could be the thing to do it. How long will it take? What will it take for that to happen? Women make up 51% of our population (http://www.missrepresentation.org/resources/). When will we be aloud to show it and represent ourselves in the best way that we can?

Ardeeemilla(:

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