Media Coverage

Global Citizen is a news article and a woman Leah Rodriguez wrote a story on the treatment of women in media. In this story Leah uses a multitude of examples and statistics to show the lack of representation in media and further solidifies her points with reasons as to why this lack of representation negatively affects women. She says, "When women have a seat at the table they are more likely to advocate for other women". This is important because without women advocating for each other we will never find ourselves to be represented further. 

CNN frequently talks about women's representation in media, one of the times they did was in this video where they talked about how men did not used to think women were funny enough to be on late-night TV. Late night TV was said to be for the men who were funny and willing to act out "fart, burp and be loud". CNN talks about this topic in a well and thoughtful manner even being sure to mention that yes we may have come far but we haven't nearly come far enough since there's "still only 25% women".

This CNN article goes over the statistics regarding how many women have been leads in family films since 2007. Starting then there were about 24% female leads in family films which grew to a whopping 48% in 2019. This is a huge milestone for female actors however CNN doesn't fail to recognize that we still have strides to make. over sexualization of women in media is still very prevalent. Female characters are 6 TIMES more likely to be in revealing clothing than men. So despite the increase in female representation we must still continue to push for change and equality.

This article by BBC covers an interesting topic about women's violence as portrayed in movies and how it sparked some controversy over whether is it female empowerment or "toxic feminism" meanwhile its states that male violence has sparked far less controversy over the years, so why is it that its so wrong form women in media to play violent characters? I think this article covers a good topic however it seems to be hard to understand and could perhaps perform better if it went into more detail instead of cramming a bunch of information into giant paragraphs and not truly getting into the necessary topics such as more on why women and mens violent portrayals spark such different responses.

Now this song can be said to be very intense. It is a song about sexual assault and the mistreatment of women and minorities because they aren't straight white men. I felt it was important to mention this song because the artist, Sofia, receive insane backlash from men who were made uncomfortable by this song. and many people and myself feel that if this song and the topics it covers on the way women are treated make you uncomfortable, that's how you know there is a problem. 

Pretty woman is a movie that I have seen multiple times and loves as a kid, but as you get older things in movies that you may have found funny or cute can change meaning. Pretty woman is in general a movie about a prostitute that found a rich man to turn her into a lady and "refine" her. This concept in general is toxic and a terrible representation of women. This makes women who may be in the "SW" industry seem like they need to be fixed which they do not. The actress who was originally offered the role even turned it down because this disgusting excuse for a movie was covered up as a cute romantic fairy tail.