Girls Resisting Sexual Stereotyping - survey results - Brief Article
USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), August, 2000
Women are always being stereotyped more harshly than men. This article talks about a survey of 1,000 girls from grades 3 to 12 conducted by Harris Interactive, Inc. Through-out the article there is an almost fifty-fifty percentage outcome for almost every “finding” such as:
52% of girls said that people think girls are only interested in love and romance; 59% said that girls are told not to brag about things they do well; 65% said that girls are expected to spend a lot of their time on housework and taking care of younger children; and 62% said that, in school, boys think they have a right to discuss girls' bodies in public.”
This survey was conducted a decade ago, and I now believe that through movies, songs, television programs, radio, and media in general- for some girls it either got a LOT easier or a LOT harder to accept themselves. Depending on the type of personality the girl has built during the early stages of her life, it will determine how she views her own actions, and treats the people around her. It is all about having a positive & strong attitude towards life, but accepting the inevitable......that there will always be someone richer, poorer, prettier, blonder, darker, lighter, taller, shortet....etc. then you. But if you have a goal, there should be absolutely no reason for you not to try and get what you want out of life!
Teen Media Manipulation The most frightening mass media target!
Why are teens so easily manipulated? Is it because they are still building their identity? Because they want to always look good, and appealing to others? Or is it because their parents aren’t there to guide them in the right direction, and be the number one influence in their teen’s life? How about all of the above?
If makes sense when you are still growing up that you don’t know exactly what you like, what habits you want to carry in the long term, and the consequences you have to pay for every step you take. So.....you try on every type of outfit, experiment with every colour of make-up, dance to every tune, drink as many brands as popular, and smoke until you have ash coming out of your nostrils! You see people doing all these things in movies, magazines,videos....but what we fail as teenagers to sometimes realize soon enough is that first off, not everyone likes to live the “high” life, not everyone can go to a bar every other day, and some people have never stepped foot into a club, or held a cigarette between their fingers. These glamorous moments that you sometimes see through media outlets are just snap-shots of products they want you to fall in love with. And become a slave to your own addiction if you do not learn from the start that “what you see, is never exactly what you get.....sometimes it’s a LOT better, and other times it’s a LOT worse!
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