Societal Pressures on Youth

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This paper examines how society, especially the media, damages the natural development of boys and girls growing into adulthood. It shows that images produced by action figures, Barbie dolls, and advertising send out messages, which ultimately confuse the youth and bring about problems, such as steroid abuse, anorexia, and other eating disorders, to name but a few.

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"What has made children feel that they must be a part of society? Society itself! Besides the fact that society makes children become physically developed, it also burdens them with many roles. For girls, it creates -isms like sexism and capitalism. Sexism is based on the fact that women are not physically as strong as men are. It links this fact to an obscene idea that physical deficiency creates mental deficiency."

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