Reflective Paper #2- ‘Missrepresentation’ This documentary made me open my eyes to a lot of things that I haven’t realized before when it comes to not only the media, but to political world and how it is affecting young teenage girls in our local high schools and how cruel it can be. Hearing the teenage girls tell their stories about how women don’t have much of a say to a lot of things and how they are expected to look a certain way that is being portrayed on the media is heart breaking because I know exactly what they feel like you don’t fit in because of how you look and how you are not like most girls around you. The relationships that you have with your peers, people you are romantically interested in, or even with your family can definitely effect on how you personally view …show more content…
At one point in time, there was “family hour” to which networks would agree to only air shows before 9pm that was mostly family friendly, but finally in 1996, Bill Clinton’s telecommunications Act was passed that pretty much stopped the restrictions on what should put on TV and once that stopped, shows like E! Entertainment and Access Hollywood began to scrutinize women by body shaming and keeping up with physical appearance to be “in style” and how a woman are supposed to look and who they are supposed to be. By doing that, I think that’s how it really shaped our society on what is expect to be an “American Woman”. I think the perfect example to this is the Victoria Secret Fashion Show that is presented every year. The models are representing what women in America should look like and this is how clothes and lingerie is suppose to fit when in fact no one in America looks like that. In honestly, I know many women that said or posted on social media that “it’s that time of year to feel like shit again before the holidays” which in all honesty is completely