3 Women 3 Ways

The news article covers the latest woman murdered by her husband, and quotes a neighbor saying, “I can’t believe it, he was such a nice guy!”  The TV reporter leers happily at the woman wearing a swimsuit while doing a story about a swimming pool.  Beauty pageants…er, make that “scholarship pageants,” hang onto the bikini competition while pretending to ask each candidate a tough, intellectual question.  How many headlines have screamed, “Grandfather elected to city council,” when the headline about a woman announcing she is a grandmother precedes all other information about her accomplishments? And how can we forget the scantily clad Paris Hilton slithering around the top of a luxury car and being sprayed into her ecstatic face with spouting water, all to sell a hamburger? We are surrounded by media messages regardless of how they portray women, and how does that affect us?  Joining us Saturday is media activist Ann Simonton, once a top fashion model, who now works to expose the disturbing consequences of