1. The most challenging part of the gender role given to teens through the media is appearance. We see ads everyday of these stick figures that truthfully not even those models look like. It hard being an average girl in a world of media of "gorgeous" models. It is hard to live up to an potenital that can never be achieved. When comparing yourself to others you just learn to critize yourself instead of prasing yourself. We nit pick everything about our bodies and images which then expand to an even larger problem. We started finding flaws and faults in everything we do. Trying to fit the ideal image of a teen girl is impossible when the ideal image is unheathy.
2. The message I do like about females is our mother instinct. I know no women can be the number one mom and some women don't even wants kids but this message alludes to so much more about our characters. We get seen as caring, compassionate, loving, kind, helpful. All these qualities I want to be associated with now and in the future and most messages about moms shows the nurturing side of a women.
3. The media normallly projects the ideal relationship to be a women and a man. This relationship tends to have the man being the dominate person and the women falling at his everyword. We see women as being dependent on a man and while she tries to live her own life she always goes back to the man for ultimate support. In the media I see women as being needy and men as being jerks. I know that in reality this isn't always true but the media has an interesting way of making man superior when it comes to relationships. Although the norm is a man/woman relationship, lately there has been more tolerance of man/man and woman/woman relationships. I think this is due to the increasing number of people who have spoken out about these kinds of relationships.
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