Stay Woke Research Paper

Stay Woke As a female, minority, overweight child, being accepted is all that I really wanted. As a teenage girl it continued and grew into something I needed. The more technology advanced the more I was subjected to constant visuals of what a woman should and should not be. I watched movies like Clueless where it showed that to be the most-liked person at school you have to be rich, thin, and have all the latest clothes and accessories. Music videos like P. Diddy’s I Need a Girl that showed I need to have a pretty face and curves on my body, but in all the right places, in order for a man to want me. With TV advertisements like Victoria’s Secret Body commercial and Cover Girl’s commercial with Brandy (one of my favorite music artists) I was shown what products I could buy to be sexy and look attractive. Being older now and much wiser about accepting myself as I am I have come to realize that media has been slowly brainwashing me. But that is one person in this large society that has been woken up from this fantasy. As someone who has experienced this I can’t say the same …show more content…
There are some celebrities and popular names on social media that young girls see as role models. 61% of teen girls are using Instagram (Lenhart). There are many women on this app that promote corsets to have a slim waist or a brand of tea because it helps make you lose weight. The key word here is promote. Media plays into how girls want this socially accepted body type and sell their products through older women. Teen girls don’t even see it but society tells them if you are not slim like the women they look up to or celebrities then by buying these products this is how it will happen. No one said that is how they actually got their slim body though. Young girls scroll through Instagram all the time and this is what they are subjected