Earlier this week in Critical thinking class, we watched the movie "Missrepresentation". The movie highlighted the struggles of women and girls not only in the media but in society today. The very informational and eye-opening movie links disrespect for the female gender and female un-empowerment to media and advertising. It seems what we see on the big screen and in many of the magazines at the cashiers register in the stares are leading contributors to sexism in America. One aspect of the movie that completely surprised me was the amount of sexism in the news. Studies done by the filmmakers show that when most people watch a woman deliver news story or vie for a leadership role, we mainly focus on her outfit, hair, or how she looks in general. Instead of focusing on what she is delivering or proposing, society sees her only as a sexual object with flaws and impurities. I would like to say that the problem arises from only men who criticize women, but the truth is it comes from both genders. Sadly, women are naturally very competitive towards each other. By putting each other down, we hold ourselves back from going anywhere in  this society or making advances for women in the world. These negative attitudes and sexist viewpoints heavily affect young girls. Young girls see models and Barbie dolls throughout their childhoods and think that that is the standard that they must uphold. It is my own observation of young girls throughout many generations that all they seem to see the world through a pink tinted lens. From birth these girls are given pink baby clothes, playing with pink dolls, sleeping on pink sheets and going on to enter school with pink notebooks and pencils. Some may argue that pink is simply a popular color for young girls, but in reality they have been taught since birth that pink is a color for girls and that they too should like the color. Story time. When I was a baby my room was blue. It remained that color as I grew up and I learned to love the color. One day that I remember well in the first grade I told one of my friends that my room was blue and she told me that my room was painted a "boy's color" and that I should paint it pink like all the other girls in the class. After hearing this I gave a lot of thought to repainting my room, all because of this girls comment and the comments of other young girls who had grown up with the mindset that pink was the color that defined them as females. Luckily my room remained blue, but I will always remember the first time I felt self-conscious about the way I lived. Young girls and boys should be taught that colors as well as careers, and respect levels have no gender. This movie was extremely eye opening for me, and forced me give a lot of thought to the situation of women in the United States and throughout the world today.