The Effects Of Media On Young Girls Around The World

Media has become a significant component within society. While media provides many pros, it supplies various cons as well. One very prominent fault that the significance of media has is its visual depiction of women. There is an abundance of media portraying women to have ideal bodies, and this undoubtedly has a negative effect on adolescent girls. Two of the many effects of media on females are depression and self esteem issues, as well as eating disorders. Unfortunately, body dissatisfaction caused by media is becoming more and more common.

I can remember her standing in front of the mirror looking at herself. How she thought she was beautiful, I don’t know. Because the image I saw was of a person who looked like a living corpse. She had to have weighed only 100 pounds, her hair so thin, the black bags under her eyes, and her overall grayish complexion made her look as if she were a dead. As she saw me staring at her in the corner of her eye, she slammed the door in my face. That was the big sister that I knew now. She was no longer the big sister that I could go to and get advice from or have a good laugh with. No, she was too busy with her own schedule and not to mention her terrible mood swings. My older sister

Sexualization of females has always been a problem. Many of the commercials from the 60’s to the 2000’s depict women as nothing more than sexual beings to sell a product. We often see commercials that deal nothing with the topic of sex use it as a means of a way to sell products. In my presentation I used two videos one with Paris HIlton and the other with Scarlett Johannson. They each are advertising two well known companies one fast food restaurant and the other a well known appliance. In my essay I will explain how sexuality in media affects adolescents, the percentage between men and women being sexualized and the affect it has on young girls.

As you’re walking down a street you may notice a young group of girls or women walking and they see a huge billboard of a beautiful model. They might stop and stare at her and then discuss about her perfect her body is. Not knowing in the next five minutes they’ll be comparing their bodies to the model and feeling bad about themselves wishing that they had her body. Not to mention, that the photo may be photoshopped to make it seem as her body is perfect, or she had plastic surgery to fit the idea of having the perfect body. The fact that the media thinks they’re encouraging young girls and women to embrace their beauty, they’re influencing them that they have to have a perfect body in order to get attention. The media has put a lot of pressure on young girls and women to look perfect and second guess their bodies, when plastic surgery is never the answer to build their self-esteem up.

There has been an ongoing issue that has not been acknowledged. This issue has affected the lives of particularly young girls and has led to a deep disconnect in the many lives of girls and that culprit is the media. Much of the media has altered the way our young girls look at the world due to the media painting a picture that women are only beautiful when they are tall, skinny, and powdered down in makeup. In society today, women are being degraded, sexually degraded to be exact, in every way possible. On magazines, television and the internet, the women that make it to the front cover are the ones who are wearing the least amount of clothes and because of this, young girls feel that they are not good enough and tend to seek other outlets so that would feel like they fit in with the women that are viewed as perfect.

Every day we are exposed to some type of media. Whether you know it or not, the media that you view each day affects you in some way. This is especially true for women and girls. The media puts a huge emphasis on how women are supposed to look to be considered beautiful, liked, and successful. All around the world women and girls look in the mirror and think that they are not thin or pretty enough to be accepted by the world. Would you want your sister, niece, best friend, or even your mother to think of themselves in that way? The media puts way too much emphasis on looks, and it needs to stop.

Media has many negative affects on a girls personality. From young ages girls are seeing girls with what media calls the perfect body thin with big boobs a gap

My hypothesis was that if adolescents are largely exposed to media; they will be affected it to a point where they learn and accept certain things about sex through it. Independent variables would be the extent to which adolescents are exposed to the media. The dependent variables were the ways in which adolescents were affected by the media. I used resources such as Gale and SIRS to look up articles related to my topic. Eventually, I went out and used the information from my articles to help create questions for my questionnaire and interview. To research my population I used these two methods of research: a questionnaire and interview. I conducted my research in Cocalico High School. I asked my SAT prep class, civics and government class,

Mass media shapes the world and the ‘perfect’ female is depicted through magazines, TV, music, internet, billboards, toys, movies, commercials etc. on a daily basis, impacting women and girls on how to perceive their own bodies, how to look and how to behave.

Teenagers spend hours everyday watching television, checking social media and more. Everyone says that these actions will rot your brain and cause bad grades. The thing no one over considers is the effect media has on teen food choice. Keep reading to learn some of the ways that media can be an affect.

From an extremely young age, the media engraves into our heads that skinny is the only pretty. Everywhere you look there are advertisements trying to make you change yourself. "Get rid of cellulite now!" "Lose 10 pounds in less than two weeks!" "Get rid of wrinkles with this anti aging cream!" All that on top of all the stick thin, clear faced models exclusively being displayed in magazines and beauty commercials then the actresses always portraying the protagonist that finds love. It all sends a sad message: you're worth a whole lot less if you're not thin and society's perception of beautiful.

The media and advertisements are meant to influence our everyday lives in society. Young girls are being exposed today more than ever to the over sexualized images of women within the media, advertisements and in pop culture. Young girls are seeing these types of images everyday either in magazines, television shows, movies or fashion. The research questions I propose to explore: “Are the images that young girls are exposed to within the media influencing their body image and self-esteem?” I would also like to study: “Could the ways women are exemplified in the media lead young girls to have a poor self body image? Finally, “Can the influences of the media and advertisements lead young girls to depression or develop eating disorders?”

20% of girls around age 4 want to lose weight while over 40% of girls around age 14 report wanting to lose weight (Serdar, 2014). Men all over the world are being harshly effected by masculine ideology (Ward, Merriwether, & Caruthers, 2006). Advertisements have reached a point that would be considered porn fifty or some years ago. Today, there are 1,848,485 pregnancies to unmarried women and 72.6% of these pregnancies are completely unplanned (Curtin, Ventura, & Martinez, 2014). Now, why is all of this occurring and how is it related? Media is negatively effect women and their self-esteem while posing a ridiculous masculine ideology for men; throughout time, these facts become extremes which results the demeaning of women, the emasculation of men, and ultimately, an increase in unplanned pregnancies.

The media in today’s society is very influential on children. Many children learn violent behavior and they become aggressive children because they are exposed to so much mature content. Many television shows contain a lot of violence, for example kids fighting each other, kids bullying other kids and kids yelling and disrespecting their parents.

Love me Harder, Talking Body, Habits, and I Don’t Mind are all newly released songs playing on the radio stations, portraying sexual intercourse as acceptable behavior. They are found all over the media today. Not only is this type of media affecting the minds of teenagers, but also the young minds of our nation’s children. Media is spewing misleading information to the minds of our teens and children; abstinence is no longer being pursued. Sexual intercourse is more common now than it was decades ago. Our teens need to be taught the truth of these misconceptions and myths, because we are in a new era where drugs and sex are looked upon as child’s play. We need to teach young students of the perilous penalties of pursuing a sexually active lifestyle, as media claims to do so. Following a sexually active lifestyle can lead to life threatening diseases and unwanted pregnancies. The best environment, such as a classroom, to do so is in a learning environment where they would receive medically accurate information.