Images in the media

I read the article on the people protesting outside the homes of Viacom and I don't really see why people are so outraged. America is the land of choice. It is a democracy and people can choose what they want in life. No one makes you choose pancakes instead of waffles in the morning, they don't make you wear t-shirts instead of polos and they don't make you stand on poles and dance naked.

Are videos shown on MTV and BET demeaning to women? Without a doubt, but women aren't forced to participate in them. Instead of protesting outside the homes of Viacom executives, they should go and protest at the houses of the women who are portrayed in the videos.

I strongly believe that if people(men) respond to the kinds of videos the protestors are agianst, then the big shot executives are going to keep providing them videos to the masses beucae quiete frankly, sex sells.

Is it possible that little girls who watch these kinds of videos will want to be just like the women shown? Very possible. Although I think that media doesn't make children do things, it does influence them. For example, my little cousins would watch Rugrats a lot and one day, my other cousing saw them eating dirt and looking for bugs. They said it was becuase Chucky and Tommy do it too.

It was funny but it is evident that what they watched influenced their actions.