History of Feminism
Related: About this forumHow Far We Haven’t Come: All of the Terrible Ways the Media Treated Women in 2013 in One Video
When it comes to the portrayal and treatment of women in the media, weve come a long way since the Mad Men era. And yet, in 2013, its still not unusual to hear messages like Im not saying she deserved to be raped, but or Women just arent as good at math as men crop up on the web or on TV.
The Representation Project, a 501c3 nonprofit that aims to challenge gender stereotypes in media, created the above supercut to show just how pervasive sexism still is in the media.
Weve come pretty far, but not far enough.
http://therepresentationproject.org/mission--history
BainsBane
(55,318 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)I'll have to dig into it a bit.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)if you arent busy tomorrow and want to, it would be good to have here. it was excellent the diversity.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Do you remember any more about it?
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)fuckin with me cause of my old and forgetful brain, werent you. lol. my boys like to do that also. i tease. thanks.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)niyad
(121,608 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Hosts were just discussing an OP that uses an Onion video to belittle obese people and light skinned, or pale, people.
That post will stay, now I watch this video to see that the Onion called little 9 year old Quvenzhane a C---.
WTF.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)whathehell
(29,982 posts)How sick and ugly can you be ?
What made them think that was even "acceptable", let alone "funny".
redqueen
(115,177 posts)I only got one reply to this
Have you seen Miss Representation? An excellent documentary by this group. They've made one about boys now too.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)far from surprising. yes. i saw that advt on the boys. it looked very good. a couple men i recognize that have been talking about this issue for a long time. should be in the men group. would be a good discussion for men. yet. no interest.
ismnotwasm
(42,510 posts)Except aside from the occasional male ass, there really isn't anything--well on the rare occasion maybe.
redqueen
(115,177 posts)long before I even knew what it was.
We wouldn't have expected any different from such a group, and wouldn't have been supporting it's creation.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)i am a bet... ok a lot of a sucker. i see the good. the good takes prevalence almost always. the ugly has to be consistent, in face and over time. i am like that. what can i say. dont think i will change who i innately am.
that is when i need a brick upside the head.
i think though, starting the group in du2 with moderators and rules and then immediately coming to du3 without rules had an effect. who knows what it could have been without the immediate chaos.
see.... the good, lol
Nanjing to Seoul
(2,088 posts)An industry with a glorified self-interest and dedicated, ingrained and institutionalized sexism, convincing the women in the industry that the sexism needs and must be accepted, sickens me.
The rest of the morons on this video, I expect nothing less than the crap they spout.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)award show of that scale, said it all for me.
women that are in the top of their industry dissed by one man not only at their award ceremony, but across the nation to viewers.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)But it seemed OTT and gross. I've met that man before and he was really a pig.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)interesting you met him.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)I was involved in student government so I got a chance to meet him.
In retrospect he really wasn't appropriate for a college speaker, and it was the college admin that choose him.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)We had Scalia too, and editor of the Weekly Standard.
You'd think I went to some bastion of conservative education but I didn't...