Miss - representation

Miss - Representation

• 17- 31 hours - media consumption
• Values based upon looks rather than power, approval to society
• 53% of girls are insecure about their looks by the age of 13
• 65% of girls have an eating disorder
• 17% harming themselves
• Unmeasurable standards are being portrayed by the media, should be stopped, too vulnerable.
•  How to stop something you are not - the media
• 235.6 billion on advertisement
• 12,000 - 15,000 on beauty products
• Seeing themselves as objects - depression & eating disorders
• Politics changes - people do not share views/experiences
• Lack of opportunities for women.
• Never the protagonists - fighting etc - insecurities
• Cartoon, not reality - body props
• Action - objectification, violence, hyper- sexual - rate more
• Patriarchal - child baring - Miss - representation
• Time for change - 16% of women are writers, cinematographers + editors & directors, 20% - news stories are women, symbolic annihilation - purpose, more opportunities, male perspective.