Shannon Holmes
Rethink Our Classrooms
This was an informative article that asked us to question the messages that are sent to our youth through cartoons and movies. As we get older these messages continue through advertisement. magazines and commercials. The author is stating that as a society we need to make a difference and change the views that we put out there for our our youth. Stereotypes need to be broken starting with our youngest viewers. This educator not only taught his students to recognize the injustices that the media puts out, he also taught them how to make a difference.
1) My waist didn't dip into an hour glass ; in fact, according to the novels I read my thick ankles doomed me to be cast as the peasant woman reaping hay while the heroine swept by with her handsome man in hot pursuit.
This is a feeling shared by many young girls who at a very young age are competing with the images they see in their daily images of how a heroine should look. They are always beautiful, with perfect bodies and they only care about getting their man in the end. This is definetely how most of us want to raise our daughters.
2) Many students don't want to believe that they have been manipulated by children's media or advertising.
Most of us would like to believe that we form our own opinions and ideas without the influence of outside sources. The exercise that the teacher did with the children was a great way to show them how, from a very young age , the media invades us with negative stereotypes.
3) Catkin wanted to publish her piece in a magazine for young women so they would begin to question the origin of the standards by wich they judge themselves.
This was a very valuable life lesson for these students. This lesson lit a fire within some of them that will now carry over into their lives and change the way they view material in the media . It will also impact their lives when they have the oppurtunity to raise their own children. Images of beautiful people surround us,and one of my favorite ads of today is from Dove, that shows women of all shapes and sizes in their underwear . This shows girls that you can be proud of yourself and feel beautiful no matter what shape or size you are. Maybe if more advertisers were willing to take a chance we could break through some of the negative ways we infest our youths minds. Media, cartoons, movies and advertisres need to be more responsible and realize that they are indeed playing a part in shaping our youth.
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I agree with you that advertisers shape our youth, whether positively, like the Dove commmercial, or negatively.
Also, I liked how you took initative, interacting us with the presentation about having the freedom to "choose" our schools. You said that something may look nice on paper but may not always play out the way you have intended. This powerful view made me question more of the sometimes "vague" responses that candidates give us.
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