How Far We Haven’t Come: All of the Terrible Ways the Media Treated Women in 2013 in One Video

[Agschmid]

When it comes to the portrayal and treatment of women in the media, we’ve come a long way since the Mad Men era. And yet, in 2013, it’s still not unusual to hear messages like “I’m not saying she deserved to be raped, but…” or “Women just aren’t as good at math as men” crop up on the web or on TV.

The Representation Project, a 501c3 nonprofit that aims to challenge gender stereotypes in media, created the above supercut to show just how pervasive sexism still is in the media.

We’ve come pretty far, but not far enough.

http://therepresentationproject.org/mission--history

[BainsBane]

1. Thank you, Agschmid

[Agschmid]

2. Haven't heard of that organization before...

I'll have to dig into it a bit.

[seabeyond]

5. you had another good one i really liked in GD and forgot to bring it over here.

if you arent busy tomorrow and want to, it would be good to have here. it was excellent the diversity.

[Agschmid]

7. Hmmm...

Do you remember any more about it?

[seabeyond]

8. maybe it was not you. it was 28 highlights on feminism for 2013. nt

[Agschmid]

14. Here it is.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024175239

[seabeyond]

15. it WAS you. knew it was. you were

fuckin with me cause of my old and forgetful brain, werent you. lol. my boys like to do that also. i tease. thanks.

[Agschmid]

17. No I forgot and I'm only 28!

[seabeyond]

18. bah hahahah. that is a hoot. i luv it. really. and...

[niyad]

3. k and r--depressing, really, how far we haven't come.

[NYC_SKP]

4. Amazing. Amazingly sad.

Hosts were just discussing an OP that uses an Onion video to belittle obese people and light skinned, or pale, people.

That post will stay, now I watch this video to see that the Onion called little 9 year old Quvenzhane a C---.

WTF.

[seabeyond]

6. yes. wasnt that something. just amazing any one that that was a good idea. nt

[whathehell]

11. I lost all respect for the Onion for that -- Calling a little girl a "cunt"?

How sick and ugly can you be ?

What made them think that was even "acceptable", let alone "funny".

[redqueen]

9. lol wow

I only got one reply to this

Have you seen Miss Representation? An excellent documentary by this group. They've made one about boys now too.

[seabeyond]

12. for men to demand they be talked about in every thread about womens issues, to watch that sink was

far from surprising. yes. i saw that advt on the boys. it looked very good. a couple men i recognize that have been talking about this issue for a long time. should be in the men group. would be a good discussion for men. yet. no interest.

[ismnotwasm]

19. You gotta wonder what the male equivalent would be

Except aside from the occasional male ass, there really isn't anything--well on the rare occasion maybe.

[redqueen]

25. If only we'd been as clued as those feminists who left long ago - who obviously spotted MRA shit

long before I even knew what it was.

We wouldn't have expected any different from such a group, and wouldn't have been supporting it's creation.

[seabeyond]

26. oh wow... so so so true. lesson learned. and why so important to listen. though honestly,

i am a bet... ok a lot of a sucker. i see the good. the good takes prevalence almost always. the ugly has to be consistent, in face and over time. i am like that. what can i say. dont think i will change who i innately am.

that is when i need a brick upside the head.

i think though, starting the group in du2 with moderators and rules and then immediately coming to du3 without rules had an effect. who knows what it could have been without the immediate chaos.

see.... the good, lol

[Nanjing to Seoul]

10. Any time Hollywood comes out with anything about equality between the sexes, I vomit

An industry with a glorified self-interest and dedicated, ingrained and institutionalized sexism, convincing the women in the industry that the sexism needs and must be accepted, sickens me.

The rest of the morons on this video, I expect nothing less than the crap they spout.

[seabeyond]

13. the boobie song, to the women it was sang to, with the reason the womens boobies were shown, on an

award show of that scale, said it all for me.

women that are in the top of their industry dissed by one man not only at their award ceremony, but across the nation to viewers.

[Agschmid]

16. I didn't see that IRL.

But it seemed OTT and gross. I've met that man before and he was really a pig.

[seabeyond]

20. well, all of his pig was there for us to see, for sure. and some men are so proud of that pig.

interesting you met him.

[Agschmid]

21. He came to my college to speak.

I was involved in student government so I got a chance to meet him.

In retrospect he really wasn't appropriate for a college speaker, and it was the college admin that choose him.

[seabeyond]

22. wow. huh. thanks for the info. so... all the gals in audience got to squirm? lol. nt

[Agschmid]

23. Yes.

We had Scalia too, and editor of the Weekly Standard.

You'd think I went to some bastion of conservative education but I didn't...

[seabeyond]

24. that would eb the liberal elite, you know. wha??? lol. nt