The following quotations come from the
documentary entitled “Miss representation” (this can now be viewed on Netflix) and deal with issues of false and
bias female representations in the Media, which help contribute to a
patriarchal society. Some are statistics
the documentary presents via on screen graphics where others are specific
quotations from contributors.
- · Teenagers on average, spend 10 hours 45 minutes a day consuming Media
- · Girls learn from a very early age, the most important thing is how they look
- · 53% of 13 year old girls are unhappy with their bodies, by 17 the statistic is 78%
- · Rates of depression among girls and woman have doubled between 2000 and 2010
- · The ideal image of beauty is becoming more extreme and impossible than ever before – Jean Kilbourne
- · Girls measure themselves against an impossible standard and end up feeling left wanting
- · The non content form of the media has to be backed up and supported by the content
- · A lot of advertising is based on making people feel anxious and insecure – Jean Kilbourne
- · Girls learn to see themselves as objects– Jean Kilbourne
- · American woman spend between 12-15 thousand dollars a year on beauty products
- · The number of cosmetic surgery procedures performed on youth under 19 more than tripled from 1997 to 2007
- · At 7 years old little girls and little boys want to be president of the United States in equal number, 30%, ask the same question at 15 and a huge gap has occurred – Caroline Heldman
- · In areas where females have challenged male power, males have responded by representing them in a way that assists in taking their power away – Jackson Katz
- · Congress has the fewest amount of woman in 30 years
- · Females own 5.8% of all TV and 6% of radio
- · 97% of publishing companies are owned by Males
- · Woman comprise only 16% of all writers, directors, producers, cinematographers and editors
- · 10% of writers of film are female
- · People tend to employ reflections of themselves – Lindy Dekoven
- · We replicate the world we grow up in – Film Director
- · The representation of females in film has become much more narrow and cartoon like than in the 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s
- · In the 1990’s studies found a steady increase in explicitly sexual images in advertising
- · The exploitation of female bodies sell products
- · Males are taught to not express emotion
- · Females are represented as young
- · You cant be what you cant see
- · Females are not represent in the Media for doing something, they are represented for how they look
- · Many woman are empowered, but not represented in the Media
- · The majority of females on TV are between 20-30, 71%
- · 39% of woman in the world are under 30
- · Woman are represented as natural enemies of woman
- · The Male Media represents females in power trivially, often concentrating on appearance, which influences audience’s opinions of females in power
- · Females are represented as emotional and irrational
- · Only 16% of protagonists in film are female
- · In between 1937 and 2005, there was only 13 protagonists in animated movies who were female. All apart from one of them had the aspiration to find romance – Greena Davis
- · As a culture woman are brought up to be fundamentally insecure
- · Were socializing boys to believe being a man is being in charge and dominate – Jackson Katz
- · More than 20% of teens have sex before the age of 14
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