How is the media a bad influence for teen girls?

TEEN GIRLS AND THE MEDIA

70% of teen girls believe they are not good enough to do certain things because they aren’t pretty enough.

25% of teen girls with low self-esteem purposefully injure or cut themselves.

25% of teen girls with low self-esteem develop eating disorders such as: starving, anorexia, overeating, or bulimia.

SELF-ESTEEM ISSUES

Teen girls with really low self-esteem don’t receive as much happiness and praise from their mom and dad.

34% of girls with low-self esteem feel they are not good enough of a daughter and are to shy to tell their parents how they feel.

57% of girls have mothers who criticize their looks.

PARENTS: MAKING IT BETTER OR WORSE?

Commercials aimed at kids spend 55% of their time showing boys looking important. They show girls, on the other hand, spending 77% of their time looking stupid and

untrustworthy. Many girls feel insulted by how they look in commercials.

Some girls try to look like the airbrushed models on TV and in magazines to impress people instead of focusing on more important things like: school, family, friends, and

homework.

This is an example of an airbrushed model’s picture(before and after.)

TELEVISION: IS IT A PROBLEM?

“They have ads of how you should dress and what you should look like and this and that, and then they say, 'but respect people for what they choose to be like.' Okay, so

which do we do first?“

Most people judge girls on how they look not how they act.

IMAGE

Many girls feel insecure about themselves because of makeup.

Some girls don’t think they look pretty enough without it.

Girls go to extremes with makeup…even if they know its bad for their skin.

MAKEUP

Many songs mention things that young people should not be hearing.

Some girls get false ideas from songs and do things they later regret.

MUSIC: IS IT GOOD OR BAD?

http://morebeautyhealth.com/woman-beauty/cosmetics-in-teenagers-skin.html

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/women_and_girls/women_girls.cfm

http://www.cleancutmedia.com/articles/girl-self-esteem-image-issues-parents