The Magic Lantern recently screened the documentary “Miss Representation” as part of Get Lit! week. It is a film that explores the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America, and challenges the media’s limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman.
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The theater audience was composed of prominent northwest business owners, artists, scholars, and students alike, anticipating this widely acclaimed film, which spotlights media’s limiting and derogatory attitude toward women. The film’s all star cast included Katie Couric, Geena Davis, Dianne Feinstein, Margaret Cho, Cory Booker and Jane Fonda to name a few. Actors, feminists and media representatives in agreement with the film’s theme – “Girls are seen as objects and learn to see themselves as objects, lowering their ambitions and confidence making it unlikely they will run for office or vote”. The more distracted girls and women are with their bodies, the less time they will have to become leaders. Women hesitate about women in leader roles. Why? What is it we discount about the ones who step up to the plate?
