Media Stereotypes Females

Even more insidious than the unnatural proportions of Barbie dolls which perhaps leads girls to eating disorders like bulimia and anorexia in pursuit of impossible figures, images seen in scenes on our televisions sets socialize girls and female in ways to he detriment of them developing their own personalities, instead assuming the gender roles watched.

[The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media (founded in 2004 by the Oscar-winning actress and United Nations special envoy) has published a new report (PDF) detailing the stereotypes, barriers, and straight-up exploitation that still define how badly women and girls are treated on screen. The study takes a deep dive into prime-time television, as well as children's programming and family-friendly films. Women are scarcer in prime-time shows and family films, and those films depict "fewer women in prestigious occupational positions," the study notes. "Females are not only missing from popular media, [but] when they are on screen, they seem to be there merely for decoration."]
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2012/11/geena-davis-institute-women-girls-are-stereotyped-sexualized-hollywood

Why did we never see female teenage mutant ninja turtles?