The Influence of Mass Media on the Young Male Image

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Mass media creates a stereotype promoting an image of how a young man should act, appear, or resemble in today's society. The media has a great influence over what we view and hear as a society and it can have an effect especially on a younger men and the image that they want to portray. Moreover, the media has a lot to do with the image we perceived in our minds and young men are easily perusable by what they see or hear. With the media flooding negative influence, it builds up to having this negative effect on younger men by how they look and feel about themselves and others. Furthermore, a man even a younger one is not to expose their vulnerabilities, weaknesses or to even to display emotions such as love and fear. In addition, mass media is a big contributor to this negative younger male self-image. The media has its own version of what a normal younger male should be; act, think or even look like can be very impressible to younger male generation. According to D'Arcy Lyness, Ph.D., a Behavioral Health Editor with KidsHealth.org describes in the article, A Guy's Guide to Body Image. Lyness writes, "Body image is part of someone's total self-image. So how a guy feels about his body can affect how he feels about himself" (par 7). Even though mass media plays a very important role in creating providing entertainment and awareness, it does however, shape the minds of the younger male generation. In other words, mass media creates a negative image in the younger male's mind.

Although mass media plays a very important role in creating entertainment and public awareness, it also shapes a younger man mind by creating a false representation on how these men should appear, act and behave in society. The media does not wa...

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