Miss Representation

Cyn loves documentaries.
Now I watch them a lot.

So... In the middle of the afternoon, I was thinking of my new 50 Shades of Blue project and watching Little Britain and thinking of using it and Doctor Who as my "research" for the project. Then, Cyn came home, commandeered the Netflix and decided she needed to watch a documentary that would probably depress her and give her a feeling of catharsis or something.

Cyn's crazy!

Anyhow, she picked this one out after watching a documentary on the existence of evil.

The evil documentary made me kind of sick and I mostly just delved into whatever it was I was working on at the time... the way I am now with a documentary called (A)sexuality right now as I write this.

Well, she dozed off while watching Miss Representation, but I watched it while working on my 50 Shades of Blue ideas. Everything was going pretty good until I made the vital mistake of paying attention because they had Gina Davis and Condaleeza Rice and pretty much all sorts of famous women that I look up to in my own odd ways.

It's actually a pretty interesting documentary even if it does have a few moments where you do kind of fall out of the message they're trying to send into your brain or, in my case, the inner skeptic rears its ugly head and starts getting a little upset that there is a sort of underlying implication that there's more to what's going on than meets the eye.

In the case of Miss Representation there seems to be an idea that men and the men in the media and the men in government are trying to keep women out of positions of power pervading the whole thing.

I'm not sure I accept that idea, but it is interesting to think about. They did seem pretty accurate about other things.

For example, when I used to live with my Grandma and every evening she'd complain about what a certain female weather reporter was wearing. Without fail. She didn't comment on how well the newscaster was doing about reporting the weather or whether the predictions were accurate. She didn't complain about the tone of the woman's voice or anything else. Instead, she complained about the woman's lack of sense of style.

The movie noted that. Women in the media either look attractive or someone in the media purposefully seeks out and tries to find the person in a way that looks ugly. We even have programs like E! which are closely associated with it. This is horrible.

Luckily, my mom mostly wouldn't let me watch that as a child. We also watched VH1 instead of MTV because she didn't like some of the programming, but that was mostly because my mom was one of those parents who tries to protect and shelter their child at times. Other parents don't do that for their children. They see the television and media as a sort of baby-sitter and they don't care about what sort of things their children see or hear.

It's terrible.

So... I can see the message of this documentary that we either have to change media and advertising ourselves or we have to actually try to raise our children by making sure they're informed about the monster media is and how to evaluate it properly. We need to impress in the minds of children that females are equal to men in all ways except having a foolproof definite sign of orgasm.

And I was thinking about writing Twilight Doctor Who... or Twilight with time travel.