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My Lovely Paper

I just wanted to give a little update on the status of my paper.  I am pretty bummed that I couldnt have had all semester to do this paper.  It would have been nice to focus solely on my topic.  I am writing about the media and how they have influenced the expectations of todays youth; primarily their sexual standards.  I have found a lot of great information.  I watched a couple of documentaries.  One was titled, "The strength tp resist--media's impact on women and girls"  I thought that was the most facinating thing I have seen in a long time.  Everyone should watch it.  It shows how the media dictates the male as having a macho attitued and the female looking frail and how advertisers make the consumers feel inadequate as a means to sell more even though they are ruining our self esteem. 

Gloria Steinum recalls a comment at one of her speaking engagements made by a young lady saying, “I don’t look at beauty magazines, they make me feel ugly” (Strength to Resist).  After being hailed as a feminist icon, Steinum agrees with her colleague Gail Dines in addressing that the aspect that Feminism gave women the courage to know that women have a right to take up space in this world.  However, soon after the movement took place they way people defined themselves started to change. No longer did people chose to write as a primary means of communication, the importance of image gained strength in the awesome eighties.  Advertising began to stress the skinny image through the use of supermodels thus undermining the feminist movement to take up space, replacing it with taking up the least amount of space as possible; thus fueling the popularity of eating disorders (Gail Dines Strength to Resist). 

**Before you bash me on the posting, I suggest that you view the matterials for yourself--you know who you are! 

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