Recently, on my Facebook and Instagram I've seen a lot of people sharing a video that a classmate of mine from middle school made a video about catcalling and young girls. The video and the topic overall has caught my attention because I know what its like since it happens to me often. I've also seen a video of an artist who wore a camera and walked around and documented all the comments and confrontations she had during an entire day. I've also seen a buzzfeed video where women wore cameras and their significant others saw the video and feared for their safety. I strongly agree that this is an issue because it happens to the majority of women in any place and at any time. It makes women uncomfortable and sexualizes them for things that they wear or how they look, as if women don't have the right to do wear what they want. Men sometimes argue that they are just trying to give women compliments and they shouldn't be made to seem evil for that. However, a compliment is much different then the catcalling that is constant and goes on.
Another issue that I have seen on my social media sites is body image. In the media, there is a very specific idea of what the correct body is and this is very limiting to what could be seen as "beautiful" in media. The media's depiction of what the right body is leads to issues with many young people. Girls may feel too fat or not good enough because they don't feel like they match the image in the pictures they see on tv or in a magazine. This could lead to anorexia, bulimia, and risky surgeries. All of which could be detrimental to a person's health. This also goes for boys who feel like they need to fit the images they see and decide to do things such as take steroids.
http://www.westminstercollege.edu/myriad/index.cfm?parent=...&detail=4475&content=4795
http://www.mirror-mirror.org/the-media-and-body-image.htm
