Wherever we look, catalogs, magazines, television, movies, and billboards, images show us the cultural standard, what we should be like and that is in fashion. The standards that women should be beautiful and sexy are present throughout these images. Girls as young as twelve start to dress up and imitate Britney Spears (left) wanting to be like her. On Opera, there was a show on girls between the ages of ten to thirteen dressing up like Spice Girls, wearing a miniskirt, a tube top, and makeup. Jennifer Lopez (right), in the movie industry, and Britney Spears, in the music industry, show how pop culture depicts women, to have the “sexy” look no matter what they do, as they exercise or just going through an ordinary day.

As people walk through shopping malls, surf the web, and flip thr

Popular culture indirectly teaches people how they should act and look like. Movies, magazines, fashion catalogs, television, and newspaper show women to be a sex object, to be skinny and sexy and men to be a romantic womanizer who have sex with as many women as he can. On the other hand, Pop Culture shows women that men are this romance person that can sweep women of their feet. These images places tremendous amount of pressure on men and women to live up to these standard that is impossible to meet. Women go on diets; some even become bulimic or anorexic trying to meet the cultural standard. Women who cannot meet this standard lose self-esteem and confidence in themselves, which impairs their ability to function to their best ability. Men are the same but not as severe. At the moment, pop culture has a bad influence on everyone. It influences people to become this ideal person that is not reachable and lets people think that having casual sex, taking drugs, and committing violent act are expectable.

Men have similar pressures from the pop culture. Just like women, advertisements for men are everywhere. In movies, the man who always get the girl is depicted as a romantic womanizer like Agent 007 from James Bond or someone with a “perfect body”, a wash board stomach and a body that is so cut up people ask, “do you need bandage?” Like LL Cool J (right) is shown on his album cover. Movies also show men as a hero, the “knight in shining armor” that rides to the rescue of a woman in distress on his white stallion and sweeps her off her feet with his bravery, charm, and romance.

ough magazines there are hundreds of pictures and mannequins clothed in outfit from cute skirts to sexy lingerie. “400-600 advertisements bombard us everyday in magazines, on billboards, on television, and in newspapers. One in eleven has a direct message

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