Can you imagine being in a world and culture where advertisements and media affect your life everyday? Well, many don't realize this; but media affects us more than we notice. In sociology, we watched an eyeopening movie that showed us just how much media has an impact on our lives. I was astonished! We see at least 300 advertisements a day! Who would have thought?! Media has some positive aspects; but probably more negative that we don't come to realize. It influences the how we should look, act, talk and express ourselves. The scariest part is before we talked about it in sociology, I never noticed how much it impacted me. I feel the worst way it affects us though is how they seperate men and women, and have many limitations on what women can do. A lot of the advertisements demonstrate women staying at home with the children cooking, cleaning, taking care of the house. On the other hand, me have to be tough, strong almost heroic!
In my life, I can admit I have been impacted by media in multiple ways. I remember when I was little especially I felt as though I could never be as good as the boys in our school. They were always strong and did sports. They made me feel as though I could never be as good as them. Whenever we had teams in gym, they always picked the other boys first and then picked me and the other girls last. At such a young age, I was already discriminated against because I was a female.
I used to feel the same way as a little girl, I never realized it was because we were treated differently as girls though!
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