teenage girl article

peer pressure from the media plays such a big part of shaping our lives

this photo shows how technology is also affecting our teenage girls.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1840556,00.html



How the representations affect teenage girls 
in this article the publisher is writing about how teenage girls are growing up so fast, girls at the age of 14 are having to worry about things that shouldn't be affecting them at this age, they are taking on problems that should only be presenting themselves at the age of 16 and 17. the media is producing all of these images of younger and younger girls being in things like half naked model shoots and t.v programs and magazine articles that are full of sex and nudity. this representation of hat a teenage girl is has been drilled into societys mind and so people wonder why 14 year old's are wearing make up and  go to party's and drinking, it is because this is what they are being told they have to do to grow up and be a normal girl.

How the representations affect society's perception of  teenage girls attitude?
this image is affecting society's perception of teenage girls because there is so much bad publicity in the media about them  that society is believing that this is what our generation is actually like. there is probably more younger girls around the age of 14-16 who dress slutty and do the so called 'normal' teenage girl thing because they are still finding out who they are, when older teenage girls have already found themselves and have decided there own opinion and beliefs. society is believing that all young girls are like this so people are starting to look down onto them and not just them but young woman adults in the ages of 20-23 because society believes that this so called behavior from teenage girls is still going on when they reach this age, this could affect so many aspects in a girls life including the way that they get hired in a job and the way teenage girls see themselves, if society has a low expectation for them they are not going to aim very high.

Reasons/ implications for any differences between the representation and reality
 In reality yes some of these situations do happen but the representation of teenage girls has been blown out proportion, girls are been shown from birth the way they should act and how to look, there are so many video clips movies t.v programs ect that show woman as sex objects something that is there to be looked at or used, know wonder there are girls that get pregnant at the age of 14. The implications of having such sexual representations of girls is that some of them strive to be like this because it is portrayed that with beauty there is popularity money and lust from boys,  But in reality this is not something that young teenage girls should be striving for or be getting told to be like, it is the media who is sending this message out to our generation and they are the ones that are mixing there ideal reality by representing woman in a way that is disrespectful for the female race.