range from blue-black, copper, olive, and pink. Yet we are all measured against the same

unrealistic standards promoted my the advertising industries (Boston Women's Health Collective

33-34). "Images of beauty vary across ethnic groups, demonstrating how racism and sexism

interact to shape expectations of women" (Kessleman et. al 111). Advertising agencies generally

use young, white, skinny, and attractive girls to promote a product. What is worse is the media

generally promotes the product using the girls's sexuality. Adolescent girls are particularly

affected by this type of propaganda technique. The mind of an adolescent is just begging to form

abstract ideas and develop morals. During this period of growth an adolescent begins to form a

complete self-identity. This means that anything in the adolescents life that affects her daily is

going to have an impact on who she thinks she is. This includes family, peers, and the media. All

of which should have a potentially positive affect on the child. But given the junk values of

considered a normal healthy sex-crazed boy. If a girl rejects a boys demand for sex she is

reinforced by images of sexy women with small brains and big breasts and hearing the music that

touch with who they really are. They are innately taught to be sexual beings and to stifle their

Some common words found in the essay are:
Health Collective, Tracy Higgins, Beauty Myth, sexual violence, sexual relationship, healthy sexual relationship, brains breasts, girls growing, et al, healthy sexual, girls begin, media images, adolescent girls, female sexuality,
Approximate Word count = 1542
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)