Stop Letting Media Dictate Your Life

I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of looking in the mirror and feeling like I am not up to par with the “typical girl.”

Charlyn Corum, Staff

What is wrong with me?

My relationship is not like Olive and Todd from Easy A, my social life is not close to Jess from New Girl and my body will never look like Jennifer Aniston’s.

Every waking moment the media tells us who to be, what to like and what the ideal body appearance is. People soak it up until it becomes their reality.

Subconsciously, people try to fulfill the media’s expectations, but continuously feel like something is missing or not up to par.

Women have movie nights with friends and watch romance movies that depict a man who has a chiseled body, nice car, manly voice, stable job and who goes above and beyond to buy corny gifts.

Naturally, women are going to seek men who fit this definition.

Let us be honest, these men are few and far between and the men in the movies normally kick ass to look that amazing.

For an example, Taylor Lautner had a strict workout routine so he could be ripped for the movie, “New Moon.”

Men look at magazines with models in them and think that they are going to score some stick figure girl with double D boobs and a tight ass, but unless Photoshop has stepped up its game and can now alter live women, you are out of luck.

Children watch Disney television shows and think that their parents are neglecting them.

They don’t live in a mansion, have a smart-phone, a walk in closet or access to their parent’s credit card. Shame on parents for neglecting their children, right? Wrong.

The media teaches children that objects are a symbol of love, but this is false.

According to dictionary.com the definition of love is “a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend. “

People who are raising children in today’s society have a bumpy road ahead of them due to the media.

This is unfair to parents because percentage wise, the majority of society is people who cannot offer their family a million dollar life.

I do not know about you, but sometimes I feel like screaming because according to the media, the spotlight will never shin on the little people in a positive way.

The media is not reality and as long as it keeps shunning celebrities for having bad skin complexion, poor income or bad beach bodies, people are always going to be searching for the unpractical.

I do not know about you but I am about tired of looking in the mirror and feeling like I am not up to par with the “typical girl.”

I believe that instead of humans letting the media dictate how we see life we should dictate how the media should see the world.

Show the media that everyone should be seen equally unless their actions give you reasons to view them differently.

Take Bill Cosby for an example, I think this man is funny and a great actor, but hearing he sexually assaulted young girls makes me view him differently.

This factor does not change his talent, it changes his morality.

There is a huge difference between disliking someone for a moral choice than bashing someone for having a ratchet haircut.

Articles should not be written about how Lady Gaga called Adele “a fat cow” but it should be about how Lady Gaga does not like Adele’s music and why. Why does her weight even matter?

When celebrities are posting about another celebrity’s talents on social media, they should be giving constructive criticism, not bashing them for things that do not alter their talent.

For example, Amanda Bynes tweeted about different celebrities being ugly. Why? Does she have nothing better to do than bully others and what is this teaching young children?

It seems that the media is missing the true meaning of talent.

Talent does not discriminate.

Talent is given to people who earn the title.

Next time you are feeling low about yourself, realize that the media has an askew definition of talent, love and self-appearance.

Not waking up next to a man with chiseled abs and a Ferrari is not going to make or break you.

We are just human and each and every one of us has to create our own reality and see the media as it is, an elaborated story.

Everyone needs to be more like Tina from Bobs Burgers.

She does not have the perfect body, face or friends but she thinks she is smart, strong and sensual.

So stop mourning about your poor skin complexion or excess weight and go out into the world and let your charm bomb explode just like Tina.