Toxic TV for Women

http://missrepresentation.org/reality-tv/reality-tv-the-self-esteem-of-women/

Recently I've been getting into the OWN network. I never really watched Oprah when she had her talk show but I must say I am digging her new shows and she is really inspirational. I really appreciate her realness and her knowledge of the media world from a woman's point of view. While perusing her website I found a trailer for a documentary called Miss Representation made by Jennifer Siebel I wasn't able to watch the entire film but the trailer alone had so much information and shocking statistics that stunned me. This documentary is about how the media portrays women, since in the 21st century the youth especially spend over 10 hrs a day being exposed to Tv, Internet, Magazines, Video games, cellphones, social networking... ect., & how the girls are just soaking up all these images of the perfect models and glamourous ladies on TV feeling that they are not as pretty or just questioning their self esteem in general. & it's crazy because they edit photos to make that woman even more flawless, so really what we see isn't even the real them! The media has such power to manipulate anything how they want and it's a shame that the US is suppose to be one of the most powerful countries in the world when we are in 90th place in the world when it comes to woman's rights and equality. It doesn't surprise me one bit that Oprah would support this movement, she herself has already began to change what we see on TV she is the change we wish to see. I remember the first weeks of class we spoke about how they used naked women for the still shots, I thought it was for Art sake to show the movement of the body & was in awe when Dr. Brickman said, "No it was their way of advertisement." I for one strongly dislike when beautiful women are called fat or ugly when they have more curves or are more unique, we as women should be proud of our bodies it's what makes us so special and unique in our own ways. For having the first woman to run for president in 2010 I feel that we do feel the urgency to change the way America's media depicts women. Woman are more than a beautiful face and body to sell products we were made with more strength, intelligence, and agility than a man. We should quit competing against one another and start to work together maybe then we will make true progress in all aspects of life, as a woman of the 21st century I want to hear what more woman especially more powerful woman have to say.