Media affecting us

This week we talked about how the media affects men and women in America today. Women in t.v and movies are always tall, thin and beautiful and men are always muscular and "tough" guys. When people watch t.v, many start to question their own appearance and notice more imperfections. People try all these different products to make them look a certain way when they don't understand that half the time people are airbrushed and not even real, or they starve themselves to death to look a certain way making them unhealthy. I don't think it's fair to have a little girl watch tv and already start to question the way she looks because of what her favorite character on tv looks like. Recently, Dove came out with their new campaign to promote self esteem and use models that were normal women. If they had workshops and campaigns like this a long time ago I think the media would not be as bad as it is today. Also, the stereotypes now used for men and women in media are completely unrealistic. Guys supposedly have to be "macho" and like all sports and aggressive, while girls can be bad at math and science or "ditzy" and used as sex objects. Most of the time, people will see those projected characters in the media and think that's how it is suppose to be. It's not fair. It's not realistic, and it needs to be.