Half The Sky Video Analysis

There are so many things going on the world, and we lose a sense of what is what important. Us humans feel as though we have to relate to tragedy in order to find a solution. Since it is less common for women of developed nations to personally relate to hardships women of Third World countries face, we tend to ignore the problem. The documentary Half the Sky brings together Third World women and well known western women such as Eva Mendes, Hillary Clinton, etc. in order to bring awareness to the issues faced by these women and to end gender inequality. The intentions of the documentary are that celebrities can bring these issues into the light; lift the level of awareness of what women can do so they are apart of the solution. The proportion of the documentary watched in class focuses on Eva Mendes and her experience in helping in Sierra Leone with the raping issues. Her hope and motivation to going to sierra leone was working with women and girls. Before coming there she was excited to meeting them because she can relate to having struggles. …show more content…
This is essentially when a white person saves people of color from their oppression. The white savior is identified as a good person who learns lessons about themselves along the way. This rationalises morality by making us consistently identify with "the good white person" saving the "non white person" who are given much less of an identity. This also frames people of color to not be able to solve their own problems. It implies that they always need saving and that white people are the only ones who are competent on saving them. This disregards the entire purpose transnational feminism. It causes a division between cultures, and continues to give white women more power rather than working towards equality for all