Missrepresentation

The lack of women “role models” in the early 2000s brings me to wonder how did so many women who went through that time survived from the Media and became so empowering today. Girls were brought up to think that you need to have a waist of 25” and a size D for boobs. So when they realized ( realized meaning that they were told ) that they didn’t have a skiing waist, they immediately thought that they aren’t enough and they have to do something about it. It isn’t their fault that society taught them through the media that you must have the ideal body, but with no brains  because don’t be a smartass. Women in this time had no role models growing up, so they looked to the media to see what they should look up to. And what they didn’t see is independent, successful women. They saw girls and women being used as sex symbols in movies, commercials, and television. This lead to women being self-conscious about their body. According to the “Miss representation”, “78% of women by 17 are unhappy with their body”. How are so many people unhappy with their body? Well the media had told them that their body should look like Britney Spears. When in reality only Spears can look like Britney Spears. So when girls try to look like the Midrift of their time they pack on a pound of makeup on their faces and wear clothes that reveal way too much for their age.  They do this because they were brought up to be sex symbols. When women are in movies and commercials they are portrayed as these sex symbols, not a women. Their sole purpose is for the men’s body, and they exploit so many people that audition just so they can be “famous”.
To me all of this infuriates me and makes me disgusted. It also makes me sad, to think of so many girls that struggle with eating disorders and health issues just because they want to look the complete opposite of who they really are. Most get plastic surgery or Botox to look the way they want. This makes girls think that it is ok to alter your body for a man’s desire. Because they were taught that the only want to make it big isn’t by going to college and becoming a congresswoman, it is by becoming thinner to be recognized and getting double D’s. Yet not have too much sex and date too many guys! Oh no, that means she’s a slut!!!... no that’s not what that’s FREAKIN MEANS! That means she is confident with her body, HER BODY, not someone else’s body. It’s because she owns herself, just like the other Million women out there.
Without these role models like I have today, girls struggled to become successful. This is why only “17% of the Congress is Women” only...seventeen...percent. >:(. So that means the other 83% is male. The United States is so far from other countries who have had a women for president.
I wish I could say that women back women up, yet the media turned some women on each other and uses “catfight” as a headline. Women degrade one another, and it is so much harder coming from a women that you are fat.
Now it is 2019 and we are so far from the 2000s yet we aren’t barely scratching the surface to put an end to women being sex symbols. Women are coming out as being raped in the 90s in 2018. These huge rallies for women are becoming more likely to overcome their problems then they were in 2005. 2019 is a whole other chapter of a book written by women this time.