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H.R. 4925, The Healthy Media for Youth Act (7 comments ↓)

H.R. 4925 would authorize grants to promote media literacy and youth empowerment programs, to authorize research on the role and impact of depictions of girls and women in the media, to provide for the establishment of a National Task Force on Girls and Women in the Media.

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Sporknicely

March 31, 2010, 3:31am (report abuse)

Sounds like a great idea to me, I'm having a hard time finding anywhere that breaks the bill down and tells exactly what it's going to do. Any suggestions as to where to look?

Concerned Citizen

April 14, 2010, 12:36pm (report abuse)

@Sporknicely:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-4925

This is great!

Samantha

July 7, 2010, 3:21pm (report abuse)

I'm pretty sure this bill is illegal under the first amendment...nice try though.

Brian OMalley

July 16, 2010, 1:59pm (report abuse)

This ain't 1970 kids, this is 2010. Every time I turn on the TV I see women news anchors, sportscasters, commentators, and Speakers of the House. Why do we need a bill to promote depictions of women in the media? This bill is being promoted by the Girls Scouts USA, but isn't Girl Scouts USA supposed to be promoting women everywhere, including in the media?

Tabby Biddle

July 27, 2010, 3:58pm (report abuse)

I think this bill is fantastic. Thank you!

Angie

July 28, 2010, 2:49pm (report abuse)

Skimming through it, the bill is mainly about (grants) promoting healthy depictions of women in media, so our twelve-year-old girls don't feel they have to starve themselves to fit into size zero jeans.

Encouraging more diversity in the representation of women in media will help widen the internalized definition of beauty that is currently dominated by images of skinny white models.

CELESTE

September 2, 2010, 3:13pm (report abuse)

@ Samantha - what is illegal about research and media literacy?

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