Gender in Social Life

Although I found Anderson's article about what is expected of male cheerleaders very interesting, I feel I can relate to milkie's article much more. Melissa Milkie interviewed black and white teenage girls to find out there thoughts about teen magazines. The majority of the girls like the article's in the magazines. Stories in the magazines were about peers, family and boyfriends. These articles made the girls feel like they were not alone with there problems. Many of the girls had a problem with the models in the magazines. They felt the girls were not realistic. They made them seem perfect and nobody is.(page 105) when I was a teenager I remember me and my friends always dieting and exercising. The media made us feel like we were not normal. Now having read this article I look back and we were sadly mistaken. I hope to teach my daughter that what is shown on television and magazines is not what a girl or women should look like. We are all beautiful and unique in our own way.