Miss Representation - Trailer - OWN Documentary Club - Oprah Winfrey Network

Miss Representation brings together some of America's most influential women in politics, news and entertainment, including Condoleezza Rice, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Margaret Cho, Rosario Dawson and Gloria Steinem to give audiences an inside look at the media's message and depiction of women. The film explores women's under-representation in positions of power by challenging their limited and often disparaging portrayals in the media. Miss Representation takes the stand that the media is portraying women's primary values as their youth, beauty and sexuality - rather than their capacity as leaders.

Premieres Thursday, October 20th at 9/8c, only on OWN.

You can find additional information at: http://www.missrepresentation.org

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• oprah winfrey network
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• documentary
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• women
• sexuality
• media
• politics
• Condoleezza Rice
• Katie Couric
• Margaret Cho
• Rosario Dawson
• Jane Fonda
• Lisa Ling

[juliemaempls]

Hey Oprah-- could you please practice what you're moralizing to us about? Your magazine is full of ads telling women we're not pretty enough if we don't buy their products, "stories" whose authors drone on about what they hate about their bodies (and how all women can understand-- because, you know, we're women and we must all hate our bodies or something.) And pages of unaffordable fashion that out-ratio any substantive articles.

[granddad2002]

personally, I would love to understand it all. I would gladly love to hold the door open for any woman... but it was hammered into me as a young man by feminist that was a custom to reinforce weakness about women. As far as what kind of sexual image I enjoy about women... well, I like the ones where a woman is being herself. Take charge of what thing are by saying what is wanted. I have 2 daughters and 2 granddaughters... I want them to have a fulfilling future.

[oerbaa]

get back in the kitchen

[stephcutie1]

@patriciaannhenry VDAY is a great women organization to help stop violence over women. Look it up :) they do productions called Vagina Monologues

[stephcutie1]

@gicody I totally agree. I am a female but she was really not smart to represent us.

[obiwan1947]

@nightsfire Rice told us we have many loving Islamic partners, and that Israel is really the bad guy. How many articles have been written about this incompetent "woman."?

[obiwan1947]

A woman can call the police and have her husband/boyfriend thrown out of the home even if she lies about what he did. If a woman says he's abusive, "it must be so." Women have SO MANY MORE RIGHTS, that this sappy piece of nonsense is laughable. Look at commercials: Every woman is smarter, kinder, and more responsible than the man, but they stilll complain...

[vneetay]

@gicody These women are a relatively small part of the American female population. When they gave Hillary or Palin their support, they were outnumbered by those women more interested in a black president (a pattern seen before in history: sexism treated as less important than racism). The purpose of this documentary is to help women realize exactly what it is they're unconciously living by so that it no longer is "same old same old since the 60's".

[nightsfire]

@gicody Ummm.... Condoleeza Rice isn't liberal.

[Alvarado20002009]

GOOD COMENT BELOW!!