Media Targeting Teenagers
When realizing the average person in America sees approximately 40,000 ads in magazines, billboards, and television each year, it is obvious that media causes teens to be dissatisfied with their bodies, aggressive and accepting of drugs and sex at an early age!
Typical Advertisements in today’s society spotlight skinny models that look nothing like the average woman. Media targeting teens stress the idea that the ideal women must be skinny and the ideal man is not only physically fit but muscular as well. To do this they portray models as the “average” person. The average height and weight for a model is 5'10" and 110 lbs, whereas the height and weight for the average woman is 5'4" and 145 lbs. The fact that models generally weight 23% less then the average woman …show more content…
Many psychologists agree that the more violence observed the more tolerant children are of violence. The amount of inappropriate violence in media boosts and promotes hostile tendencies in many teenagers; especially in teen boys. Hollywood icons such as Little Wayne claim bragging rights to the number of times they have been shot yet they are glorified and plastered on teen channel hot spots such as MTV and VH1. Although many don’t understand how doing something as simple as watching a movie could mold a teens mind it is proven that it does. There have been reported reenactments of actions in movies where teenagers resemble victims in slasher movies by mutilating corpses. Popular movies portray action movies as those including death such as Rambo 3. This movie alone shows approximately 106 deaths! (Bennet, 2006) Video games are another form of the media that promotes violence. The major concept in most teen rated video games is to beat an opponent by knocking him out. In some video games you might even kill your opponent; games like this brainwash teens into believing that violence is an adequate way to
Typical Advertisements in today’s society spotlight skinny models that look nothing like the average woman. Media targeting teens stress the idea that the ideal women must be skinny and the ideal man is not only physically fit but muscular as well. To do this they portray models as the “average” person. The average height and weight for a model is 5'10" and 110 lbs, whereas the height and weight for the average woman is 5'4" and 145 lbs. The fact that models generally weight 23% less then the average woman …show more content…
Many psychologists agree that the more violence observed the more tolerant children are of violence. The amount of inappropriate violence in media boosts and promotes hostile tendencies in many teenagers; especially in teen boys. Hollywood icons such as Little Wayne claim bragging rights to the number of times they have been shot yet they are glorified and plastered on teen channel hot spots such as MTV and VH1. Although many don’t understand how doing something as simple as watching a movie could mold a teens mind it is proven that it does. There have been reported reenactments of actions in movies where teenagers resemble victims in slasher movies by mutilating corpses. Popular movies portray action movies as those including death such as Rambo 3. This movie alone shows approximately 106 deaths! (Bennet, 2006) Video games are another form of the media that promotes violence. The major concept in most teen rated video games is to beat an opponent by knocking him out. In some video games you might even kill your opponent; games like this brainwash teens into believing that violence is an adequate way to