The Article “Outraged Moms, and Trashy Daughters”, talks about girls with no self-respect for themselves and others. This article resonates with me because it covers the issues that girls in my generation have to deal with and have troubles with.
Generation gap makes it hard for parents to deal with their children's problems, because if they need to give advice to their children but do not have any experience with those things it might be hard to be helpful. If someone has not gone through the same problems it is hard to put themselves into other's shoes.
On the other hand, parents always try to compare their generation to their kids' and usually over exaggerate. They say, “It was different when I was your age.” This fretting over the changing world is unnecessary because every generation went thought the same problems of not being able to relate, it is just something we have to adapt to.
Parents who already have enough to deal with in this always changing world also have the stress of equal opportunity for their girls to deal with. Many parents choose to ignore the fact their girls will never get equal chance while others talk to their girls up front so they are prepared. No matter the reason, they want their child to go into their first jobs with the mentality they can do anything but it is better to tell them first instead of letting them find out for themselves.
Girls these days have no respect for themselves. They are prone to having their friends call them demeaning names and boys calling them sexually degrading names and comments. Songs and raps that are about not treating women fairly are considered merely ‘songs’ and the swearing and put downs are regarded as lyrics that rhyme. This is a far cry from years back where if you were heard using that language you would have your mouth rinsed out with soap.
The media practically shapes the world now a day, how we act, what we eat, how we dress and whom we look up to. The media is a terrible influence for young girls because it encourages unhealthy living, promotes sex at young ages and pressures girls into thinking everyone should look like models. There are hardly any good role models out in the media that are not known for their looks or ridiculous behaviour. For example Snooki is known for “smushing” everyone she meets, drinking and partying excessively this is not what young girls should look up to. Many say it does not have to do with them it is so ridiculous, but it actually allows girls to act like sluts and act terribly.
There is a constant unfairness to girls and women who have sex compared to a man who has had the same amount. Women that have sex are called sluts, when a man is not judged at all. This gives men the advantage and makes them think it gives them the ‘right’ to control women. Many girls think being a sex object is powerful when it is quite the opposite. Many say they are in control that it will be fine but pleasing men sexually gives them the wrong idea. Even dating to earlier times men were always superior and some women’s bad behaviour and attitude does not help at all.
The media is always starting new trends and putting new looks across that people wear without even giving it an extra thought. Some of these looks require the “perfect” body type meaning that ultra skinny with huge breasts are always in. All styles are made around showing the upper curves and legs long when reality is no one look like that. Girls that keep up with latest trends are constantly put down by looking at the beautiful models and do not realize all the photo shopping done to make that picture. They starve themselves to look like that and even when they already look beautiful, enough they still torture themselves for no reason. The article states that hardly any girls these days have healthy self-esteem and it is completely true because this constant drilling that skinny and full in beautiful blocks their brain from realising their true beauty.
In conclusion, things these days are very different then they used to be. The media is promoting bad self-esteem and examples that are changing the way people look at themselves. However, sometimes change is good, good for people to realise that things can and will change for the better. People should alter the way they treat others and themselves because it will make a huge impact on their life and future. As a wise man once said “When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.”
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