Monday, June 3, 2013

Reflection on Miss Representation documentary

Posted by Laplap X Tan at 11:14 PM
The documentary taught me that we shouldn't accept what the media thinks is okay to say about  what is to be a real woman they shouldn't condemn us to feel like we're not skinny enough, we're not pretty enough, we're not curvy enough, we're not WHATEVER enough  When in reality, WE ARE ENOUGH. It is what the medias on tvs, magazines, movies, ads, etc that causes women to feel this way. The media portrays women as sexual objects and this has set a standard for women and what they should look like otherwise they aren't accepted. They are seen as women who need to look a certain way so that they can please the eyes of others. Which shouldn't be the way we center our lives. 

One of the things right now that has caused me to just want to rant about the issue about self worth is from the current news going around about the CEO of abercrombie and fitch who "doesn’t want larger people shopping in his store, becayse he wants thin and beautiful people,” ... “He doesn’t want his core customers to see people who aren’t as hot as them wearing his clothing. People who wear his clothing should feel like they’re one of the ‘cool kids.’” 

What pisses me off so much about this is that in reality, no one will ever live up to this image that they have set. They're basically saying that all women have to be a certain shape in order to look cool or even be able to go into a store without having to feel like their being judged. Everything the media portrays about what real women are, are really what women really aren't. I think the only way we can resolve this issue about not letting the media force feed us with all these lies is by learning to feel more confident with ourselves, because in reality our body shapes are all different, we are all born different. Some people are just more capable of losing or gaining weight than others, the way we dress or the way we put on make up or choose to do our hair shouldn't base how cool or uncool we are. BECAUSE yOU ARRE ALL COOL. SERIOUSLY!! I REALLY WANT YOU ALL TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE COOL, YOU ARE LOVED! AND YOU ARE ENOUGH!   and I think we should all  just learn to accept each others differences than to bring down another person just because we don't look the same as each other. DONT SPREAD THE HATE, SPREAD NUTELLA AND LOVE. 


ps. sorry if this is a little out of order. it's nearly my bed time and I sat here trying to make this as serious as possible... and then I had nutella. 




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