Consequently, as part of the media monster itself, the filmmakers of both documentaries have a part in selling how Americans think of themselves to them, and they speak to roughly 50% of the problem. The filmmakers of Miss Representation expose the viewers to themselves, but without shaming them to buy into a fake reality. It does have its problems. This documentary provides this message to the females: successful women are depicted as bitches or even pitted against one another in feuds seemingly unrelated to their actual aims. Indeed, the media is a good example for bad representation of gender as some notable news articles in Tough Guise 2 highlight. The film’s narrator, Jackson Katz, cites some newspaper reporting of violent crimes committed by men where the focus of the perpetrators mental state overlooked the more significant factor of their sex. This mention of gender misrepresentation in the news, though a rising concern with interest for men, doesn’t speak for all men reading negative headlines regarding their own sex. Convicted male shooters could best find use in these headlines, perhaps, if needing good example for using the insanity defense as a useful defense against death worthy judgments. To some broad extent this still benefits men. Depicting women as bitchy and power-driven in news articles within the political spectrum of the news, however, not only overlooks a person’s genuine effort to succeed in helping the world, its whitewashes the attempts made and doesn’t give women reading of themselves anything to run with by example to accomplish much of anything. Females are depicted as victims, failing to provide its predominantly male audience about an actual solution to the problem of male gender depiction. Likewise, Tough Guise 2 somehow manages to worsen this media messenger by focusing on one man’s many cited examples of men who appear for reference in their already exemplified Hollywood form. …show more content…
The author of this documentary fails to provide his select audience with a diverse and gender neutral solution, and though ambitious it is in aim with regard to changing male patterns of behavior, it is overall reductive. Gay and straight men without children to influence or schools to shoot up might have trouble relating to this film and could apply real behavioral change in their life by taking the many observations of several different women for example to follow, who unfortunately are solely female. Indeed, where are the men? Miss Representation addresses startling statistics that hinder the growth of men and women of all creeds, and by doing so serves a broader audience albeit predominately female. The narrative is ingenious, and its technique deserves mention for progressively providing a much needed way to interpret bad or misinformed individuals; it encompasses it message within several different life mantras shared that originated from adversity without redundantly stupefying its genderless audience. The media operates by how well its audience follows its example and everyone goes about their own lives with subtle but significant regard to media messages. Miss Representation lets it run freely across the screen without disturbing its audience with what to think about it and by allowing this to occur lets them read and listen to take women into consideration by how it affects them. Moreover, Miss Representation provides hope to every viewer that women in film are making effective strides at changing the use of statistics in a way