Media & Advertising

I have never realized how bad of an effect media/advertising can have on girls and boys and how easily it shapes our society. It had never even come to my attention before till i seen those videos on media and advertising. Its like people don't even realize the negative effects of advertising. And advertising is everywhere: magazines, movies, TV shows, buses, schools, and Internets. The media shows and tells boys that you have to be independent, strong/tough, and aggressive to be a real man. Its sad to see that males have to grow up feeling that way. Its sad that they have to hold in a lot as if they have no feelings or emotions because that is what their taught. Its just making man more violent and aggressive. And then the impact it has on girls is horrible. It effects their self-esteem and body image. Girls are taught that the perfect body shape is to be skinny since advertisements emphasize thinness. But what they need to realize is that is all fake and photoshopped. It influences girls from such a young ages, its sad. This reminds me of a TV show that I saw once. It's on TLC, its call "Toddlers & Tiaras". It basically a beauty pageant of little girls. Those girls are wearing makeup, fake eyelashes, spray tans, costumes such as dresses, have there hair and nails done. I think it's crazy and wrong. I think children deserve to be children. The show actually made me mad especially at the pageant moms. The one show that I shown, this one pageant, this little innocent child she had to be only 5 years old, said that she was too scared to tell her mother that she didn't want to be a pageant queen. I believe this show is ridiculous. The media is having a terrible effect girls and boys. :(