kidnasty:

wizardmeetsmockingjay:

bieberoric0nicbro:

lipstickandlonelynights:

liveinthemomemt:

I suggest all females watch this. 

*i suggest all humans watch this.

If you haven’t watched this yet, you really should.

This is a must, girls and boys.

I agree that everyone should watch this. This is one of the few videos on female representation in the media that at least tries to point out that the way females are represented has a negative effect on everyone, not just women. 

just watch

please watch

PLEASE if you see this on your dash, watch it

it’s really sad how this is so true, because even I think I have to look a certain way for guys and i think every girl feels that way and we really shouldn’t have to 

It’s scary how much the media degrades women, and how we all just sit back and watch it happen…

The media doesn’t degrade women, women choose to degrade themselves. The FIRST High School student that was supposed to represent a smart woman used incorrect grammar, presenting a pronoun/antecedent disagreement. I understand that they say the media shoves certain things down men and women’s throats from a young age, but it’s a CHOICE to give into that stereotype. I went to a high school where up until 2-3 years ago, I was made fun of for the way I dressed, being ridiculed. I understand that we can’t expect everyone to be strong enough to stand up for what they believe in and disregard societal expectations, but still. It’s a woman’s CHOICE to degrade herself. Sure, there are famous people who catch shit about being fat. Did anyone ever think that it’s also shoved down a male’s throat that they’re supposed to look a certain way? I know it was shoved down mine. It’s a person’s choice to give into the things they see people say and do. I personally have done everything in my power to be myself, and let my talents, aspirations, and efforts speak for themselves. It’d be awesome if everyone stopped playing the victim.

Wait hold on. Hold your shit.

First of all, a pronoun/antecedent disagreement is quite honestly one of the stupidest things you could criticize someone for. Yes, grammar is important, but as a naturalized citizen of the US and having spoken the language since birth, my grammar is not perfect and neither is anyone else’s. And it doesn’t matter, because I still got into college, I’m still an astrophysics major, I’ve still had 5 jobs in my short lifetime, and I’m still going to be fucking successful.

Fuck you.

Second of all, women choose to be degraded?

We choose it?

Are you actually out of your mind?

So if I were raped and taken to the police and the policeman asked me what I was wearing and if I was drinking and how I was acting before he asked me what my attacker looked like (something that happens often and is a direct result of the stigma surrounding sexual violence against women), and then proceeded to blame me for being raped because I was dressed a certain way, then it would have been my choice?

So at the age of 7 and 8 years old, when young girls are subjected to images of what they should and shouldn’t look like, and then start developing eating disorders, they chose to do that?

When video games feature young attractive women as sexual objects and encourage men to be sexually violent, cultivating a culture for misogyny and disrespect for female sexual expression, that’s my choice?

When the pay gap between men and women is getting larger and larger, even though more women than men are likely to get a college degree, that’s my choice?

When rape culture has permeated society so much that you can’t tell between a phrase in a popular men’s magazine and a quote from a convicted rapist, that’s my choice?

I understand that maybe you went through similar hardships in high school when you were made fun of, and that men have a certain image they’re supposed to uphold. But your negative experiences don’t diminish mine, or the shit we women have to go through every single day just because we’re women.