As girls we grow up watching Disney movies and playing with dolls. But what does this teach us about our bodies? We see the princesses with nice bodies, make up and getting a prince charming. Does this mean we have to grow and become these perfect women?
The
media and Ideology plays a big part in
our view and expectation of our everyday lives. According to Croteau “ideology”
often means belief systems that help justify the actions of those in power by
distorting and misrepresenting reality. What that means to me is that certain
people in power justify their action by making it seem what they are showing us
is real. For example in Orenstein reading were viewing girls that growing up
watching the Disney princesses, in this case Daisy that take part of being a
princess and that the prince is going to wake her up by a kiss. When have we
ever seen this in real life? Girls are growing up believing this. When we look
a princess or a doll we see a skinny girl that doesn’t have a perfect life
until she meet her prince and that’s when everything changes. According to
Crotreau, Ideology us a system of meaning that helps define and explain the
world and that makes value judge about world, which is related worldview,
belief system and values. The
dominant ideology is different perspective of struggle within media text, those
in the promotion of particular ideas such as diverse are among the primary
contemporary battleground.
According
to Orenstein she have never seen a study
proven that playing princess could damage girls self-esteem. But big evidence
that the more media girls consume the more importance they play on being pretty
and sexy. Many studies show that teenage
girls and college students who hold belief about femininity especially those
that emphasize beauty and pleasing behavior are less ambitious and more likely
to be depressed than their peers. They are also less likely to report that they
enjoy sex or insist their partners use condoms.
According to the Orenstein reading in 2006
survey of more than two thousand school aged girls repeatedly described paralyzing pressure to be “perfect”
not only to get straight As and be part of an activities but also to be “kind and caring” “please
everyone”, be thin and dress right” rather than living the dream. What does
this tell us? To me this is telling me
that I would have to be this perfect woman to fit in. This also goes back to
Disney because the princesses in the movies are perfect. I believe that people do not have all this
time to be thin and get straight As. The
media is very powerful and make girls believe that they have to be perfect in
order to have a perfect life. They now feel they must not only have it all
but be into all: Cinderella and super girl . aggressive and agreeable. Smart
and stunning. The
number of girls who excessively about their looks and weight actually between
2000 and 2006 did their reported stress
levels and their rates of depression and suicide. It is as if the more
girl achieve the more obsessed they become with appearance.
“we
can excel ion school, play sports, go to college, as pore to and get jobs
previously for men, be working mother , and so forth. But in exchange we must
obsess about our face, weight , breast size, clothing brands, decorating ,
perfectly calibrated child- rearing
about pleasing men and being envied by the other women”
According to Raby, Discourse
organize how we think, what we know and how we can speak about the world around
us. A discourse refers to a set of meanings, metaphors, representation, images,
stories, statements and so on. Discourse works as truth statement; it is to see
though them to identify how our reality is shaped. Many teenagers reject the
dominant discourse.
Why
do people resistance? It’s hard to resistant especially if it’s something you
grow up and its something that is install in you ever since you’re little.
According to Christensen our society’s culture industry colonizes their mind
and teaches them how to act, live, and dream.
This hits young children hard. The
secret education. Children’s cartoons, movies and literature are the most influences
genre. The stereotyped and worldwide embedded in the stories become accepted knowledge. These books are mostly are made to entertain
us, but are constantly giving us a secret education we are not only taught
certain styles of violence, the latest fashion and sex roles by TV, movies
magazines and comic strips . Many don’t believe that they have been manipulated
by children’s media or advertising. Being expose d to TV images of girls and
their set goals given to them by the media.
Changing
the standard is hard especially when you’re going to be judged by society. Many
people believe that you are an outcast if you go against society. Many people
that resistant are seen as rebel. But it’s hard to go against what you have
been raised with. According to Christensen,
they looked at how overweight people were portrayed as buffoons in episode
after episode. When people see overweight people they look at them as they done
something bad. People that are overweight are always looked as negative in the
media. If you think about it is a form to resistant what the media and what we
have been shown to be “real woman”.
What
is fat acceptance?
The
fat acceptance movement is known as the size acceptance, fat liberation or fat
power movement. What it is a social
movement to change ant-fat bias in social attitude. The movement grew out of
the various identity politics of the
1960’s and campaigns for the right of fat people to be treated equally both socially and legally. The fat acceptance
movement argues that big people are targets of hatred and discrimination. Fat
women are subjected to more social pressure than obese men. The movement argues
that these attitudes comprise a fat phonic
entrenched social norms. In the social medias fat people are ridiculed
or held up as objects of pity. Discrimination
includes lack of equal access to transportation and employment
Many
people sees a fat woman and automatically judges her. Have you ever a feeling
of walking to a run and everyone is staring? Or have you ever walked to eat and
people say little comments about you eating ? This is what society has come to
where people look at you stares because you are not a size zero. A person never
knows how it feels till you in that place. This all comes from media. Watching
runway shows where all the models are tall and skinny. That what American
considers to be pretty. Especially watching Victoria secret runway show. I feel
that every year girls get skinnier. Now
in days teenagers are focus on looks. But
it’s not there fault. Media has a big impact on teenagers behave. But there are
many girls that resist. For example when I was a teenager I remember wanted to
be skinny then I learned that I was never going to be skinny. I learned to love
myself because at the end of the day is not all about looks. I know it was hard
living in a society that only focuses on looks but you learn how to overcome
that. I believe that everyone is beautiful no matter what size, shape or color you are, because I believe that everyone has special within them.
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No to Victoria's Secret runway shows!!!!!!
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Before
taking these class I had no idea how much media influences us. When we are teen
we are seen as this rebel, misbehaved, troublemakers. Teenager just want to
live their life they don’t want people saying that they are aliens because they are not.
They are teens that just trying to live their lives just like the rest of us.
Before this class I had no idea how much Disney affected who we are and who become. This class raised
questions to me. Teenagers are not the problem they are just living their daily
life.
This
link leads to a page about how teenage girl feel. There are different experiences
and if you are plus then you’re going to relate to this
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