The majority of teenage girls are more likely to know of pop singer Kesha, than Kate Shepard – The most prominent member of the NZ suffrage movement.
Pop culture is a huge influence to how we think, and it’s especially good at influencing the young impressionable minds of teenage girls.
Today’s role models usually stem from Hollywood celebrity status’s such as Lindsay Lohan, Snookie and Kim Kardashian –who got famous because of her “leaked” sex tape -and yet these women are idolized. The priority of these women is to be the most beautiful, eligible, the most famous. Fashion magazines pressuring girls to care more about their weight than using their brains! Why isn’t intelligence or a woman’s integrity to achieve as highly glamorized in today’s media?
However, even though the majority of pop-media tends to pressure woman into only valuing their sexuality, it’s not all a negative influence. Take singer P!nk for example and her video “Stupid Girls” where she parodies the stupidity of idolized female celebrities such as Paris Hilton, while singing lyrics “Where, oh where, have the smart people gone?”.
However, even though the majority of pop-media tends to pressure woman into only valuing their sexuality, it’s not all a negative influence. Take singer P!nk for example and her video “Stupid Girls” where she parodies the stupidity of idolized female celebrities such as Paris Hilton, while singing lyrics “Where, oh where, have the smart people gone?”.
It is safe to say that the mainstream music industry presenting woman as sexual objects is so common and that kind of negative influence can shape a young girls way of thinking.
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