After watching MissRepresentations, it was pretty clear to me that the idea of women through mainstream media has been corrupted and now women are displayed as objects of lust a desire for men. I also agree that the next generation needs to be raised to think of women differently. They threw so many statistics and supporting details involving numbers on how the media has negatively impacted the minds of many young women across the country. The one thing that I wondered is with all these statistics they've given us, how many are accurate to what they entail. Although it does bring the problem of the mindset towards women to attention, I can't dismiss that some of these statistics may be exaggerated to fir the needs of the documentary. One of the most shocking statistics given 78% of the women at the age of 17 are unhappy with their bodies. The vagueness of this one statement was enough to put me on edge. If they had added a supporting detail of how unhappy they were then it would have been more believable. However all they said was that these women were unhappy with their body. This one statement is so vague because being unhappy with your body could vary in everything from physically harming themselves because of the way their body is to just simply being uncomfortable with who they really are. Due to the vagueness of this statement, I want to see for comparison what the statistic for men is since everyone has insecurities in one form or another.
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