It’s no wonder that the media has this affect though. When you’re bombarded with countless images of thin models and actresses or muscular men, most people and especially teens are going to view these figure as role models. It also doesn’t help that real life role models such as parents and older siblings often openly obsess about their own weight. Everywhere you turn from friends and peers to clothing shopping ads, you’re surrounded by the popular opinion that you have to look a certain way. These viewpoints are dangerous but almost impossible to avoid.
The typical American teenager encounters thousands of sexual references in the media every year. These references come in the form of television shows, movies, music, advertisements, magazines, and the internet. Although there is frequent criticism concerning the amount of sexual content in the media, it continues to increase. The way sex is portrayed by the media does indeed influence teenage behavior because sex is constantly shown as consequence-free, and gives teens the wrong ideas of body image and gender roles. The media has made body image very important in today’s society.
Too many put themselves down everyday about their weight and looks because the media puts such an emphasis on “so called perfection.” Media has a huge influence on society today, especially on teens. It is mental, physical, emotional, and perceptive. Everyone has seen or heard of some type of advertisement promoting some type of beauty product, jewelry, or a new brand of clothing. It is almost impossible to ignore it unless being cut off from the world, which is not realistic. The media influences men’s image issues as well.
The worldly depictions of the human body are put to an extreme view because of how the media has affected the way people think about themselves. Wherever you go you will hear someone saying: “You are too skinny,” or “You are too fat.” These statements can have an influence on your self-confidence and cause you to try and “perfect” your body size. Even though the bodies we see are photo-shopped to look better, people still want to look the way they see others looking. Our imperfections are just what make us the way we are. A woman can have a little extra weight on her and still be beautiful.
SAFETY The safety of athletes is usually very high on a sports agenda. Administrators make sure athletes eat right, drink right, sleep right, do the right things, but if PED were to be legalised the safety of all athletes could be compromised. How many of you here have heard about the steroid junkies of the 80’s? Well these guys used to take so many anabolic steroids over such a long period that they used to go on rages. They would get mad at everyone and everything and often get very violent and most often they ended up hurting others or even themselves.
For example, T.V changes our lives dramatically, it affects behaviors, affects physical health, and it wastes everyone's time. T.V is well known for influencing our behaviors and our minds not only adults but especially on our children's. Indeed, children or teenagers are the most vulnerable objects who are easily affected by bad programs. Moreover, there are many movies and T.V shows out there right now that includes many sexual materials, violence, and adult language that are definitely not good for our children's growth. In addition, without the supports and supervision of our parents, this can corrupt our kids in many ways in their behavior, relationships, and possibly ruining the life.
That’s why the red queen was always fearful. In life you have to be kind but not too much, but in my opinion I do think that being feared is way better than being loved. Often kings or rulers of empires in history are feared by people and the outside invaders are also feared by many people, that how they take over land. When you work at a company, you’re usually scared of your boss because he could fire you and he could give you a raise. Also, my uncle went to boot camp because he was going to the marines, and he told me that the people there try to scare you.
Our shelves are stocked with products to make us appear younger in any way, shape, or form; our most popular reality TV shows revolve around the lives of the young and beautiful. Everyone wants to look young, feel young is so highly respect by the media also by the public. To be young is to be alive, sexy and full of energy. To be old is to be worthless, illness, ugliness, mental decline, isolation, poverty and depression. This discrimination allows the rest of us to separate ourselves from older people and view them as less than a fully human.
In television advertisements particularly, gender stereotyping tends to be at its strongest because the target audiences are frequently either male or female. In adverts men tend to be shown in more occupations than women while women are shown mainly as housewives and mothers. Men are portrayed as business people, sports people or athletes while women are mostly seen in a domestic setting as a wife and/or mother. Today I will use two different texts to prove this theory. The first text I will be analayzing is the Nappysan Advert.
Not winning a beauty pageant is telling children that are not good looking enough or they’re not special. They may begin to starve themselves just to have that ideal “perfect” image, this leads to life-long eating disorders. They are also put under a lot of stress trying to please everyone. Beauty pageants are killing the self esteem of the children involved. Many parents of these girls