“You have to lie to get what you want, being mean earns you more respect than being nice” and is often necessary to get what you want. This quote by Meredith Melnick effectively presents the mentality teenage girls have as a result from watching reality television. The article “The Impact of Reality TV on Our Teens: What Can Parents Do?” by Holly Peek, Peek mentions multiple reality shows that teens pick up bad habits from such as excessive partying, bullying, gossiping, and changing personalities, looks, and beliefs to fit in with their peers. Peek accurately portrays the negative effects of reality tv and I agree that girls’ mentality and physicality are altered due to reality television. In the article, “The Impact of reality TV on our Teens: What Can Parents Do?” by Holly Peek, Peek states that most girls are influenced by what they see on television and try to mimic celebrities’ actions. Peek provides a few examples of different reality shows to depict how teenage girls base
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When girls watch shows such as Keeping Up With The Kardashians and America’s Next Top Model, they see a high-fashioned lifestyle with beauty, designer outfits, and loads of money that they wish they could live. Peek uses The Jersey Shore as an example for excessive partying and mentions that the cast “spends an entire summer binge drinking to excess, participating in risky sexual behavior, engaging in physical altercations, and even being arrested” (Peek). She also uses The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills as an example to state that “throughout the booze-fueled dinner, the women accuse each other of spreading rumors” (Peek). Both of these examples display inappropriate behavior in adult celebrities. I agree that teens watch these shows and feel as if this behavior is acceptable and decide to imitate it in hopes that their popularity
When girls watch shows such as Keeping Up With The Kardashians and America’s Next Top Model, they see a high-fashioned lifestyle with beauty, designer outfits, and loads of money that they wish they could live. Peek uses The Jersey Shore as an example for excessive partying and mentions that the cast “spends an entire summer binge drinking to excess, participating in risky sexual behavior, engaging in physical altercations, and even being arrested” (Peek). She also uses The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills as an example to state that “throughout the booze-fueled dinner, the women accuse each other of spreading rumors” (Peek). Both of these examples display inappropriate behavior in adult celebrities. I agree that teens watch these shows and feel as if this behavior is acceptable and decide to imitate it in hopes that their popularity