Linda Christensen

Premise:
society
disney
stereotypes
racism
media
children
society

Christensen's Argument:

Christensen argues that children are subjected to planned out messages from the media of how they should look and act to fit a certain mold in order to be accepted in society.

Evidence:

Daffy Duck--"'This is just a dumb little cartoon with some ducks running around in clothes' Then students start to notice patterns-like the absence of female characters in many of the older cartoons. When women do appear, they look like Jessica Rabbit or Playboy centerfolds--even in many new and 'improved' children's movies" .

This gives girls the idea that they need to be skinny and sexy in order to be liked and to fit in. For a guy to like them they need to fit a ceratin mold on the outside, they are taught this instead of that it is their personality that really counts.

"But I want students to understand that if the race of the character is the only thing changing, injustices may still remain."

Just because the race changes doesn't mean the same message isn't put across.

Comments:

I never really noticed that all these messages have been put across to children and at such a young age. I knew that teenagers were subjected to this everyday in the media, but to have to be subjected to it at such an early age? To have these thoughts about having to have the perfect body, and be a certain way by the age of ten is crazy.