During advisory we've been watching a documentary called Missrepresentation. It basically talks about women in the media and how it affects the way girls perceive themselves and all that. It's very interesting, but honestly we've seen it all before. Everywhere we look we have people telling us flat out to not pay attention to the media. But I think that there is more of an issue here.
I just came across this article talking about how schools want to ban leggings. All of the sudden it occurred to me as I read this specific part of the article: "In fact, one 13-year-old student, Sophie Hasty, put it perfectly over at Slate, saying, 'Not being able to wear leggings because it’s ‘too distracting for boys’ is giving us the impression we should be guilty for what guys do.”'
This made me really think. We've seen this stuff all before but maybe the people who should be watching these films is the boys. They need to know how it affects girls when they objectify them. When we are told to not act a certain way because of the way a boy will react to it, I think it is completely going against the whole idea of not relying on men for approval. No one wears leggings to get a reaction from boys, we wear them because they are comfortable and it is unfair to be blamed if boys can't handle themselves at the age of 17.
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