House Party Ideas
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Get together and watch a good movie. Evaluate the movie for positive and
negative content.
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Since January, NOW has run a survey asking feminists what they think are
the top five woman/girl-positive movies. The enclosed sheet lists video
rental suggestions taken from the survey responses. If you choose, you
can analyze the movie based on the four
criteria NOW has used to rate television programming: violent content,
gender composition and stereotypes, sexual exploitation, and social responsibility.
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Have a group discussion about the current state of women in the media.
Strategize about how feminists can help pressure the media to improve its
portrayal of women, girls and people of color. Take the answers to these
questions and turn them into a challenge to the media to better represent
women and to act more responsibly. (Sample
questions are available.)
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Write letters to the Federal Communications Commission, national television
networks, your local TV stations, movie studios, newspapers, magazines,
radio stations--anyone you want to listen up. Tell the media decision-makers
how you feel about the content of their programming; let them know what
you like, what you think is discriminatory and unrepresentative, and what
is missing. (Sample letter to the media
and to the government and addresses
are available.)
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Create a section of your web site devoted to media activism. Check out
the media section of NOW's web site at www.now.org/issues/media/
for ideas.
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Form a media activism team and start making an agenda and plans for ongoing
actions and media monitoring. Contact NOW to see how your team can continue
participating in the Watch Out Listen Up campaign.
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