Media Influences Young Girls - BLOG

Have you ever contemplated how the media influences young teens, both boys and girls and what the consequences are of it?

Some news and information in the media forces us to change ourselves completely and it is often young teenage girls who have to experience this change. They feel the need to forget about their surroundings and isolate their childhood and grow up as rapidly as they can. In this blog, I will expose the thoughts and feelings of the public concerning this issue of girls having to grow up too quickly.

I spoke to members of the public and Jacob, 32, a youth worker from London, explained how currently many young teenage girls are following in the footsteps of the singers they look up to. He said: “From my point of view, media has a large impact on teenage girls because the music videos they watch show people wearing very provocative clothing which makes them want to dress like them and act older than their age. It also sexualises them too quickly.”

I asked a 30 year old man about his views on this topic of young teenage girls being encouraged by the media to act like someone older than they are. “The media likes to promote the negative things instead of the positive, and blames the youth for a lot of problems they hear of, yet they don’t address the situation properly. They don’t understand that they are kids, and it’s their learning time. Life is all about learning. This is what I think all you young kids should do, just switch of the TV, don’t read the paper and make up your own media.”

Shamima, 13, from East London, said: “The media definitely has a very large affect on young teenage girls but at the end of the day it is all up to them, it is their choice and no one else can change their decision. Being a teenage girl myself, I admire many celebrities but I know that to be like them would be unreal because it may look real to us but it’s all actually fake!”

My personal advice to the victims of this issue would be to not challenge yourself to do anything to make yourself feel more mature and grown up because at the end of it all, you will find that you are the one suffering from an abundance of dilemmas.

Also never allow anyone to tell you that you have to change to please them because you are your own individual person and you can achieve great accomplishments and gain a lot of success if you keep your head held high and love yourself. Keep being just the way you are.