This photo symbolizes mass media's influence on teenage girls. The photo represents adolescent girls' abandonment of masculine hobbies and interests as pop culture has a growing impact on their values. Closets are often used to hide unwanted or shameful objects a person owns, in this case the closet symbolizes the oppressed masculine interests of many teenage girls. The skateboard and softball glove hidden in the back of the closet symbolize "tom-boyish" hobbies girls tend to abandon in adolescence. The dresses hanging from the closet, heels, and magazines take up most of the frame showing how mass media has such a huge influence on teenagers. The more feminine clothing and colors such as, the pink sweater and heels represent the influence and drive pop culture has in encouraging young girls to abandon any signs of masculinity in order to be liked. The feminine objects throughout the photo, and even surrounding the skateboard and glove, represents how mass media dominates over most other influences in teenage girls' lives influencing everything from their choice of clothing to their hobbies.
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This photo portrays just as it says about how the mass media has a strong impact on adolescent girls. It shows how the girl has put away her skateboard, and picked up the Cosmopolitan magazine to educate herself about how to be the girl the mass media portrays. The media says that adolescent girls who play sports are known as tomboys. Adolescent girls who are called “tomboys ” are accepted by society, but often still looked down upon so the girl has put down her softball and glove and picked up low-cut, spaghetti-strapped dresses and heels because that’s what the media says adolescents wear. The dresses appear larger in the picture to show the major that change from a “tomboy” to a “girly” girl that the mass media created.
This is also protraying how now a days society is more accepting to gender mixed roles. Not all gender mixed roles though, mainly women doing masculine things not so much males doing feminine things. This is because male roles are dominant roles so it is okay for them to be following the dominant rather than taking part in the subordinate things.
This photo shows the clothes ladies are encouraged to wear to be able to be noticed in the society.
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