pltd+media

Media Influences Media, TV shows, magazines and other types of media can affect the way you take on puberty, most of the time the media represent adolescence in a different way. This can affect an early adolescenct experiencing changes abililty to cope. For example in some photos it gives you the impression that every girl is beautiful and has big breasts which is not always the case in real life. Some girls want to look like celebrities and get dissapointed in how they look because they want to look like celebrities. Magazines and television shows constantly show skinny and beautiful models they do not show the everyday woman. Teenagers are getting the wrong impression about there body image too often.



In the media:
 * Most things in the media don't look like the real thing. They alter the image.
 * The media tells us that the sex appeal are a lot more important than personality
 * The media uses stereotypes to sell things
 * The media can be misleading
 * When you see things in the media they are most of the time it's not what the real thing is.

What messages about men and women do pictures and the media represent:
 * Men=tough and built
 * Woman=skinny, pretty, big boobs and good appearance
 * Have to be skinny and beautiful and half-naked
 * Girls that are good looking have to be with good looking guys.
 * Physical appearance is more important than your true feelings
 * Showing lots of skin is good.
 * Girls are slutty.

Gender roles:
 * Women need to be respected by there physical appearance and not there personality
 * Girls wear slutty clothes and get plastic surgery.
 * Men are more tough, women are more beautiful
 * Girls are supposed to be entertainment for guys.

Magazines such as //Ralph are// getting to us by sexual images. They make us interested because what images they show. Ralph is a magazine showing girls that are skinny and beautiful and men that are tough and built. When teens going through puberty look at these magazines and images they give off the impression that men and women are meant to be like the ones in the magazine. The media influences teens, it lowers there self-esteem and there what they think of themselves,

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