Why does the media have such a hold on society? Answer, because we let it. The video "killing us softly" showed how our society is being influenced by the media from the ideal image, to how it is effecting the young children today and everything in between. So now ask yourself are you trying to obtain the ideal image/body and it isn't working, now ask yourself why it isn't working? You really can't obtain the ideal body that the media trys to sell because most of the ideal bodies that are in the magazines are mainly computer generated. They take and ordinary women and change her into an entirly new person that doesn't exist. Women are in the media potrayed as passive, sweet, naughty, innocent, and as sex objects where as men are potrayed as tough, active, powerful, violent, and they are far from innocent. When the media does start to de-humanize the men in the videos it usually just makes them seem more powerful than they did before. Now ask yourself do you want your son or your daughter being objectified like that? If your answer was no then something needs to change, and we need to change it.
