Misrepresentation
Media
has a major impact on how society views its self and it also influences
standards people use to judge each other. Society today spends at least 31 plus
hours a week on media sites like: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Kik to name
a few. People further spend about 17 plus hours listening to music and about 4
plus hours reading magazines weekly (Misrepresentation). The message of
mainstream media today seems to be that woman equals sex symbol. Medias’
presentation of women hints and screams that to be intelligent and proficient is
not enough.
In the documentary Misrepresentation, it displayed various ways that women are tainted
in society and media these days. Some
alarming statistics according to the documentary Misrepresentation are that: “53% of 13 years olds are not happy
with their bodies, 17% of female teens engage in self-mutilation behaviors, 20%
or more teens have premarital sex, 1 in 18 men, are in jail and 70% of women in
the work force are mothers.” While
parents are working to provide for their families, latch key children are left
at their own discretion to watch the negative images of drama, violence, and
sexualized scenes on television for entertainment. According to the American Psychological Association there
is a direct link between watching TV violence and displaying real violence.
Do media broadcasters
have a responsibility in what it presents? Or is main stream media just giving
people what they think they really want? Yes, in the United States of America
we do have freedom of speech and free press (Constitution). Freedom is having a
right to choose. Gandhi said, “Be the
change you wish to see.” The United States is a country built on a foundation
of values that include freedom, justice, equality, peace, capitalism, brotherhood,
hope, hard work, and success to name a few.
There is an old wise saying that verses; “anything worth having is worth
its cost.” However, popular society at some point must ask its self, at what
cost is success worth.
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