Miss Representation: Sexuality In The Media

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Miss Representation is an extremely eye-opening film—given I knew about sexuality in media but not to this extent. Throughout the movie, iconic and empowering women are shown to prove to the viewers that you do not need to be stick skinny, have the perfect hair or flawless skin to have a leadership role. Hattie Caraway, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Rosa Parks, Hilary Clinton, Indra Nooyi, Ursula Burna, Andrea Jung help to prove that empowered women do not need to use your sexuality to obtain empowerment in the world but we do not see these women represented in the media. Instead we see the Kardashian family, Paris Hilton, or models who are very thin yet are photoshopped to be even thinner. Jennifer Pozner makes an interesting point when she says shows,

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