Signatures Equalize Portrayal of Women in the Media Petition : [ powered by iPetitions.com ]

#	First Name	Last Name	State	Country	Comments
801	Jessica	Garrett	IL	US
802	Becky	White	MO	US
803	Mel	Santiago	MS	US	The portrayal of women in the media is unbelievable! Not all women are so thin you can see through them or are obsessed with the "hottest fashions..." Why can men be so powerful and what-not, while we're the lesser..?
804	Kris	Wright	SC	US	I'm tired of being told I will never be good enough, that I am inferior and NEED a man to be complete as a woman.
805	Anonymous	Anonymous		AU	i think that women are setting a terrible example for younger women, younger teens. they make us all feel self concious. and do they realise the harm which they are causing to themselves? something must be done now!!
806	Teresa	McGlinsey
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808	Janelle	Jansen	IL	US	This epidemic must stop. How many more women in our society need to feel berated and "unworthy" due to the distasteful eye of the media?
809	Anonymous	Anonymous	OR	US
810	Launi	Dahl	UT	US
811	jessical	dahl-olsen	UT	US
812	Anonymous	Anonymous	UT	US
813	Anonymous	Anonymous		CA	DO ANY OF YOU NOT HAVE A MOTHER, DAUGHTER, OR SISTER?
814	Anonymous	Anonymous		CA
815	Samantha	Welsh		AU	This is terrible. The media have warped females' and males' minds. We should have a fair representation!!!!! and especially have no pressure upon ourselves by the media or anyone else to change our bodies!!!!!
816	Terina	Lopez	FL	US
817	Lucy	Lopez	FL	US
818	noluvuyo	ndinisa	SC	ZA
819	Amy	Bell	LA	US
820	Rachael	Flynt	TN	US	everyone is beautiful, and society shouldn't trample that.
821	Ceslie	O'Brien	LA	US
822	Anonymous	Anonymous	OH	US
823	Anonymous	Anonymous	LA	US
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825	Jayme	Smalley	GA	US	I think it is sick how women are portrayed by the media and also that women are not doing more to stop it.
826	Anonymous	Anonymous
827	dylan	freeland		AW
828	Monica	Pflug
829	Kathy	Scott	VA	US	I agree women shouldn't be portrayed in vulgar ways.Ladies love yourself !!!Nothing is wrong with you yhe way you are!
830	Jennifer	Wendt	WA	US
831	Anonymous	Anonymous		GU
832	Anna	Mardayan	CA	US
833	Amanda	Robinson
834	Stephani	Walker	UT	US	I solemnly believe the above statement and its horrific effects on women.
835	Anonymous	Anonymous		CA	The Only Way To Get Rid Of The Way Women Are Portrayed In The Media Is To Petition And Let The Voices Of Women Be Heard !! Start Sending Emails & Letters To TV Shows And Magazines Out There, People Will Listen If There Is Enough People Fed Up With This!
836	Aubrey	Whewell	OH	US
837	Gongo	Gangata		ZW	I fEEl U man
838	sanjuana	perez	IA	US
839	Anonymous	Anonymous		US
840	Anonymous	Anonymous	MI	US
841	Tim	Symonds		GB	Please also post or circulate - Oxfam journal Gender and Development Volume 15, No. 3, 195 pages. 10 chapters by experts on Gender and the Media. Copies will also soon be available online at http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/issues/gender/gad.html Contact gadeditor@oxfam.org.uk Contributors include: Lesley Abdela, 'Anyone Here Been Raped And Speaks English?': result of workshops for Editors and journalists on gender-based violence and sex-trafficking. lesley.abdela@shevolution.com. Lesley Abdela is presently high-level Gender adviser in Nepal to the UN Chief Humanitarian Coordinator until March 2008. The article is the result of recent workshops in Albania and Senegal led by Lesley Abdela for men and women journalists and editors. The Senegal workshops were organised and sponsored by the UNFPA West Africa, and in Albania by the Mediterranean Women's Studies Centre and The Albanian Centre For Population & Development. As well as being a consultant specialising in Gender in Development and Gender in post-conflict reconstruction, Lesley Abdela has a professional background in journalism, with features for The Times of London, The Guardian, The Independent, Washington Post etc. See http://www.abdela.co.uk/Information/Archive/Lesley_Abdela_archive.htm. lesley.abdela@shevolution.com Colleen Lowe Morna, Director, Gender Links Associates, and former CEO of the South African Commission on Gender Equality: 'Making Every Voice Count: a southern Africa case study' admin@genderlinks.org.za 'Why is it,' Colleen Lowe Morna asks, 'that in relation to every other issue, South Africa wants to be measured by, and exceed, world standards - yet when it comes to gender, we are happy to be counted with or below the lowest common denominator? This question is at the heart of the work of Gender Links.’ Sarah Kamal, 'Development On-Air: women's radio production in Afghanistan'. sarah@unitycode.org Sarah Kamal is a Media specialist who has conducted independent research in Afghanistan since 2001. She is engaged in Doctoral studies at the LSE. Further chapters on Kenya women's pages, Feminist Media coverage of war, African women blogging, sex-selective abortion in India, asylum seekers in Britain, disappeared women, and short-but-useful sections titled 'Resources', 'Views, Events and Debates', and 'Book Reviews'
842	Anonymous	Anonymous	VA	US	I, too, believe that women should be more respected through the media without any provocative statements being made about us. The portrayal of women has gotten too out of hand and something needs to be done. All women are beautiful and deserve more respect toward their outer appearances.
843	Randhi	Martinez	CA	US
844	Anonymous	Anonymous
845	Anonymous	Anonymous		CA
846	Keren	Parnell		AU
847	Anonymous	Anonymous	MN	US	I am also fed up with the way women are portrayed in hte media. There is constant reference to women and their appearence. Women are valued for how they look on the outside and not who they are on the inside.
848	Katie	Hoyt
849	Vanessa	Unrau		CA
850	Dee	Fortier	VA	US	It is time women all over the world stood up and said "We do not have to be 100 pounds to be beautiful,smart and funny."Perhaps ad campaigns so catch up with the progress women have made in the past 100 years.