Here are some exciting parts/highlights of the bill:
"To 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, and for other purposes.
(a) Media Literacy-
(1) IN GENERAL- The Secretary shall award grants to nonprofit organizations to provide for the establishment, operation, coordination, and evaluation of programs to increase the media literacy of girls and boys, including by--
(A) educating youth on how to apply their critical thinking skills when consuming media images and messages;
(B) promoting healthy, balanced, and positive media depictions of girls and women among youth; and
(C) countering the perpetuation and damaging effects of narrow, restrictive gender roles, stereotypes, and expectations, including the sexualization of female children, adolescents, and adults.
(2) ACTIVITIES- Programs funds under this subsection may include--
(A) assisting youth in critiquing and rejecting sexualizing and objectifying messages within society;
(B) teaching youth how to create and use media that contribute to social change, especially in their communities;
(C) building confidence and self-efficacy;
(D) building leadership skills; or
(E) facilitating connections between girls and women, and boys and men, as mentors."
This bill has sooooo much good stuff in it, I wanted to copy and paste the WHOLE THING! haha. Some of the stuff is rather vague though, and we can ALWAYS do better, and being a cynic, I don't even think it will pass... HOWEVER the fact that there are actually people in congress trying to do SOMETHING makes my day so much brighter! One small step for congress.... one GIANT LEAP for the young girls who think they have to look perfect and be perfect and not eat, and do not have the media literacy or adult role models in their lives to tell them otherwise.
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