MEF Video

I thought the video was really interesting, especially considering the photo I chose for my paper. I hadn't really thought about how pressure from the media on girls has been a problem for a long time, I had always thought of it as a more recent thing. I had also never considered the impact of the media on boys. I think it's really interesting how even after hearing over and over that commercials, advertisements, etc have such a negative influence on us, we're still attracted to those advertisements that feature beautiful, thin women and tough, strong men. I question how much of the desire to fit into those norms actually comes from the media and how much is just human nature. It seems logical that we would be attracted to beauty and health and desire to look better from an evolutional perspective, and that the media might just be capturing a natural human behavior.