Missrepresentation: Do Women in the Media have Power?

Recently I saw this trailer and it really hit me hard. Pat Mitchell (CEO of Paley Centre for Media) says this quote in this trailer:

"The media is both the message and the messenger"

That quote makes so much sense when you think about it. When connecting that quote to other topics I have covered in this blog, (sexualization of women/violence in fashion advertising), its quite easy to realize that the only reason why these things are somewhat okay in this society, is because advertisements and the media put out this message that more or less says "It's okay to sexualize women, you get to wear Jack Will's panties if you do." 

The media essentially tells people its okay to make fun of a women because the media and advertisements do it. I can't begin to tell you the amount of times I have heard the "Women belong in the kitchen" joke that many teenage boys use nowadays, and I think that stems back on how many degrading advertisements that feature women. If the media continues to degrade the most powerful women in North America, how can any women be powerful and rise above this discrimination?

I think that the fact that advertisements show many girls being degraded, that its become okay for a lot of advertisements to show that.

(As an example of how the media criticizes woman in the industry, here is a video of the women of The View discussing how the media criticizes Michelle Obama's fashion)