While growing up, I always felt a sense of inferiority when in the presence of the opposite sex. Society has divided specific tasks, like mathematics or working out, and placed a label on top saying “men are better at this than women.” In grade school, I remember walking into math class, my favorite subject, and allowing myself to believe the boy’s answers were always more accurate than mine. I could have been 100 percent sure of an answer and still changed it only because one of the boys changed theirs. While at the gym, I would occasionally feel a wave of nerves deluge my stomach because “I might be doing something wrong.” Once I realized what I was thinking, I snapped out of it because I knew that women could do anything men could do. The documentary, “Miss Representation” allots a large portion of its work to the insecurity of women resulting from media as well as media’s influence on both genders, to accept the self- objectification of women. “Misrepresentation,” as well as my own opinion, claims there is one specific source to blame. From the beginning, the media has been manipulating society to accept harsh treatment toward women; this powerful influence leads to self-objectification and insecurity. Self-objectification is one of many problems caused from media’s portrayal of women. Self-objectification is defined as an overexposure to objectifying experiences that females engage themselves in; it leads to an internal self image as being an object or a collection of body parts (Tanjara 1). One prime example of a self-objectifying women is a celebrity we are all familiar with, Rihanna. She was known to be a successful, influential individual but when her rekindled relationship was brought to light, she became a weak, subordinate woman. She had herself wrapped around Chris Brown’s arm at the most recent Grammy awards, yet just a short time before, she was in the hospital because he has beaten her half to