The Hunting Ground

It is not acceptable that women are portrayed in the media as dominantly dependent on men. The television and movie industry have only recently started to portray women as strong, and independent and only in a select number of roles. Only a hand-full of the media depicts women as independent. A few that come to mind are Gilmore Girls, Revenge, Frozen, and Brave. It is unethical that this has just started changing and that there are only limited amounts of media portraying positive depictions of women. Instead girls have to grow up watching negative stereotypes about women and think that this is the right way to become a woman.

Young girls grow up viewing movies from Disney, where the princess needs a man, or prince to come and save her from
Gender roles are constantly changing, but there is not enough progress in the gender identity chosen by society for women. A woman being depicted in the media as weak or lesser than a man is not tolerable. Just because these femininity performances have been repeated for so long in history does not make it natural that women should act and be represented in that way. (Alberts, 2007) It is the twenty-first century and women should be considered strong, independent and equal to men. This is still not the case as women are often also over sexualized in the media, which causes real world
It is completely unacceptable that women have to go through this because men think they can have power over women. In addition to this the idea that if a woman is incapacitated, she is willing to partake in this type of event. Certain rape cases in the documentary involved alcohol. In the reading about binge drinking Engstrom (2012) states, “According to Sterba (1998), ‘‘almost 50% of male college students say they would commit rape if they were certain that they would get away with it’’ (p. 294). Statistics suggest that alcohol is frequently a factor, for example, in cases of sexual assault on college campuses (Abbey, 1991), but not always when the perpetrator has been drinking.” This quotation form Engstrom shows how skewed the ideology that men have power over women and that men believe it to be justified because they are masculine. Institutions cover-up these incidents furthermore allow the criminal face little to no consequences for their actions. The representation of women in history and the in media contributes to the ideal that criminals can commit these crimes and believe that they were in the