“Over 70 percent of girls age 15 to 17 avoid normal daily activities, such as attending school, when they feel bad about their looks” (Image and Self-Esteem). The mass media, including T.V. shows, movies, pictures, where it is all easily accessed, is a big influence on the way female teenagers act and feel. In a work written by Jennifer Pozner, she states that “as executive producer, Tyra Banks claims America’s Next Top Model aims to expand beauty standards…” (Pozner). However, she shames females within a different skin tone and stereotypes them. A female contestant on the show America’s Next Top Model named Gina Choe was referenced; she feels that she is pressured by the media, as well as the show, to choose whether she was “more tied to her ethnicity or her nationality” (Pozner). Not only how America’s Next Top Model is manipulative, they are also setting high standards for ordinary females to look
“Over 70 percent of girls age 15 to 17 avoid normal daily activities, such as attending school, when they feel bad about their looks” (Image and Self-Esteem). The mass media, including T.V. shows, movies, pictures, where it is all easily accessed, is a big influence on the way female teenagers act and feel. In a work written by Jennifer Pozner, she states that “as executive producer, Tyra Banks claims America’s Next Top Model aims to expand beauty standards…” (Pozner). However, she shames females within a different skin tone and stereotypes them. A female contestant on the show America’s Next Top Model named Gina Choe was referenced; she feels that she is pressured by the media, as well as the show, to choose whether she was “more tied to her ethnicity or her nationality” (Pozner). Not only how America’s Next Top Model is manipulative, they are also setting high standards for ordinary females to look