When it comes to teaching values to everyday children, teenagers, and even some adults, the media ultimately fails at teaching anything remotely true to these people. Take for example any one of the several dozen morning or afternoon soap opera shows, they all present these beautiful women one might never see when walking down the street, as well as these overly masculine and emotional men. Not mentioning the overly dramaticized and screwed up situations one could almost never find in a hundred years in reality.
Then there are the so called news giants and social channels, who only show the dark side of humanity and these select few humans who are "Adonis" type of guys who are overly buff, have these washboard abs, and the tight butt, and wide shoulders. Giving regular guys this image of "beautifully sculpted men" who are really only a select few in our society, attempting to force regular men to change their image to fit these select few, by dieting, refusing to eat, and even cosmetic surgery at times.
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I agree with you, it seems that most media tends to focus solely on beauty and the clothes and bodies which make them. I'm not saying there aren't any companies which focus on something else, but they either aren't recognized at all or they even fail as a competitor to these other big companies.
I have no idea if that makes sense!
I find it very interesting that girls/women have been dealing with this issue for years. unfortunatly it has moved into the male cutlure. I am sad to see that these realities are affecting men in the same way that women have been affected for years. I wonder why we, as a culture, did not put a stop to this years ago. Wouldn't it have been great if we could have been proactive and stopped these ideals from entering into the male concept
You are so right about the soap operas! I think that soap operas are so distorted anyway that i am not supprised that the people are too. I agree with you about the steryotypes.
I agree about soap operas and how they project things that are not even remotely true. I agree that people get brainwashed by the media, but I have to keep telling myself that we also have to become familiar and comfortable with ourselves, and begin to know what we really want to look like ourselves, just not from some outside source.
I know, I try.To be funny I mean.
Am I the only one who thinks guys with huge muscles are gross? I can't believe the extremes we go to as a society to "look good." And soap operas? No wonder America is so messed-up.
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