Actually the media has started using larger women in some of their commercials so that they can appeal to a broader audience of people.
Not everyone is a size 4, but yes they do play up the glamor, makeup, life style, jewelry and cars.
But the people portrayed are not 9-5 ordinary people like we are.
Today's teenagers, will be tomorrow young adults and they are so much smarter, than to buy into all that garbage...(Ugly Betty) is setting a great example that you can be smart, nice and still achieve success.even within the confines of high tech fashion.....just my opinion...thank youDo you feel that teenagers today feel more pressure to look like celebrities and models ?
In a way, yes. The media symbolizes, in my opinion, a fake view of beauty. Although as a cosmetologist, I'm all for fixing people up and making them look better from their command, but too much makeup to the point of looking different is unnatural; for an example, take a look at celebrities. They look so 'beautiful' on the screen, but when you look at videos of them without their makeup, people say they look 'ugly.' In fact, most people are so brainwashed by the media, they forget those stars are normal people like us, just wearing tons of makeup and getting mainstream exposure. Therefore, they're so used to seeing the fake makeup image until when it's removed, they didn't primarily see what they normally looked like, so they believe they're ugly. I bet, if they seen without the makeup beforehand, they'd be considered just as beautiful. I'm not against wearing makeup, don't get me wrong, but too much to the point of looking like a mannequin is pathetic. As for teenagers, they watch TV often and don't realize the 'media' or nothing more than normal people like us with their personal opinions. Therefore, they need to learn to develop their own opinions WITHOUT media help. As for fitting in, it's not all because of the media, but also peer pressure. In school, student that were influenced by the media to look pretty in a fake way could influence other girls, and therefore, creating even more 'symbolical beauty.' My advice is, be yourself, find things about yourself you find beauty and forget other people's negative opinions, thank positive opinions, and remember, makeup and flashy may look great, but self-confidence and determination to feel better about yourself is more attractive. Beauty is too good a thing to be wasted on a superficial image rather than a true image.
I don't understand why people always say things like 'today' and 'this generation'. There has been an obsession with the idealized body since the beginning of human kind. Look at the Greeks! all their sculptures were of always of what a perfect person should look like. Wanting to look a certain way has existed for all people in all cultures. People always act like this is some recent epidemic, but its not. Humans (teenagers included ) are always going to want to reach the standard set by their society on how they should look, whether it is harmful or not. Its inevitable.
The celebrities and models in the media are just our 'Greek Sculptures' of the modern era that are the means in which we view society鈥檚 physical expectations of us.
Definitely. i have an ';alternative'; family structure that somehow manages to include at least one example of each of the major ';types'; of people. Despite all efforts to make sure my daughter understood that all we wanted her to be was herself she still managed to get it in her head that she had to pick a type to be like. Skinny or fat. Emo or preppy
i know this is directed at females but i shall answer anyway =P
im a 16 yr old guy, and i do feel that they influence me but more of a role model. I see them and believe i can do it too. I also act because i want to be fit to be healthy and maintain self respect.
Yes, they do have that extra pressure. I support my 12 year old daughter to be fit, but not to try to ';fit-in';.
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