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COSMOPOLITIAN TAUGHT ME TO LOVE

June 03, 2018

Recently, When I was looking at swimming suits in the cosmopolitan magazine I recognized the use of many different body types. The simple picture of a larger woman next to a short women made me extremely happy. I couldn't help but smile knowing that fashion magazines are starting to include all body types. This inclusion is a big step into making media healthier for the eyes of women and little girls everywhere. Now, while looking through magazines, a women doesn't have to feel like she has to change to fit an unrealistic image. My favorite part about the article was the subtitle ,” Because every body is a bikini body”. After looking at the many different body types in all kinds of swimwear I was able to find one that would fit me perfectly. I walked away from my computer knowing that I don't need to change to fit into a bikini or the more mainstream expectation of what a girl should look like in the summer time.

TV SHOWS OR ADS ?

May 28, 2018

My absolute favorite TV show is “The Ranch”, a show about a small family living in a small town and the crazy experiences they go through. The show stars my favorite actors, Ashton Kutcher and Sam Elliott, who I find hilarious. I have been watching the show for a while, starting it way before I took critical thinking. Though as I have started to expand my awareness of media, I have noticed the ways the show advertises certain products. The products shown on “The Ranch” are mostly drinks, including Pepsi, Corona, Bud Light, etc. The products are incorporated in light hearted scenes and never leave the center of the frame. The drinks labels are easily recognizable and a positive comment about them is usually said. These ads have subconsciously affected me as my mom will ask me what to get at the store and I reply with a Pepsi, not knowing why I am craving one. I now notice every time a product is advertised and it is interesting to me that I find at least one ad in every epis

MISS REPRESENTATION: MEDIA IS A FRIEND TO NONE

May 28, 2018

According to Miss Representation, media is a friend to none. Media is a harmful drug, one we know can hurt us, but still crave it so consistently. Media impacts both men and women, though at different levels, creating unrealistic expectations girls and boys feel they need to reach in order to be accepted by society. Media builds these expectations by generalizing an entire population of young people into one being who they project on screens internationally. The documentary goes on to say that media has created a national problem, a generation infected with self objectification and degradation towards women. Though I agree with this, the filmmakers of Miss Interpretation failed to correctly prove these points. They relied on false cause to portray points like: women are raped because their rapist is a man who had grown up on video games that degrade women, ignoring that fact that there are just some really bad people out there. Though, the filmmakers clearly portray the ulti

PBS's HURTFUL APPEAL/ASSUMPTION

May 20, 2018

Another subject addressed in PBS’s “Making Cents out of Teens: Merchants of Cool” was how brands attracted teens to their products. Brands compete to find and make the newest “cool” or trend. A trend that brands can always trust is sex. PBS believes that teenagers are obsessed with everything having to do with sex. Big television companies rely on the appeal to attract and target teenagers. They tell women that they should be proud of being a sexual object, using cliques disguised as empowerment. In reality, they are making all girls look down upon themselves for girls as young as 13 can't walk out of the house without a full face of makeup and perfect hair. Brands think that we are obsessed with sex because we are teenagers, but the sexual appeal was something created by media, something that we have been weaned on since we hit double digits. The appeal hurts girls and boys who don't fit its stereotypes and creates unrealistic expectations for those who do,

PBS's MONEY BANDAID

May 20, 2018

PBS’s “Making Cents out of Teens: Merchants of Cool”, discusses why brands pursue the teenage population and how teens obtain and spend money on those brands. Today, teens hold the majority in the world's population, making them one of the biggest targets for brands. Brands sell new things everyday to this huge group of consumers, a group not yet old enough to hold an income that can provide for all of their spending. PBS thinks the only way teenagers have this money is they are given it, out of guilt or annoyance. They believe that parents who can not be apart of their child's life enough feel guilty for not being there, then look toward money to “make-up” for their absence. Money given out of annoyance is happy money, money given to a child to keep them content. Instead of having to deal with your child's emotions you buy them a purse or the newest soccer cleats to keep them smiling. Money is a bandaid in the eyes of PBS. I have definitely been given mone

TIDE PODS ARE NOT CHALLENGES

May 13, 2018

Challenges over social media have been the biggest rave for a number of years now. Starting in 2014 with the ALS ice bucket challenge, a harmless challenge used to raise money for the ALS association, has made a dangerous turn as the audience craves more “interesting” acts today. With the past year, people of all ages have begun to consume tide pods as a dare. Youtube stars take bites out of these laundry detergent packets, encouraging their viewers to do the same. In 2017 over 10,570 cases of detergent ingestions were reported to Poison Control in America. Tide pods contain chemicals that are not meant for consumption, chemicals that can easily lead to death. This challenge horrifies me. I cannot understand why someone would want to eat a pack of dangerous poisons. What scares me most about the life threatening dare is how big it has become. I caught my younger brother opening a pack of them a few months ago, a ten year old boy was about to risk his life for a couple of view

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