Since we've been talking about the media, I've noticed a huge difference in how I analyze the media and it's effects on the people around me.
I've actually been kind of empowering about it, and I'm kind of okay with that.
Every time someone around me, mostly my female peers at work talk about something they aren't comfortable about themselves with, I lash out in a feminist rant. I start talking about how that's what the media wants and that they should love themselves even though others are taught to love the opposite and I get super intense and then I get the look of concern and slight fear.
"Jeez Melanie, all I said was that I feel fat."
then I go in with, "YOU ARE A BEAUTIFUL INTELLIGENT BUTTERFLY"
I like it. But I always have to explain why I'm so passionate about that stuff.
I like that too. So shoot me. I love talking about what I learned to people and I'm lucky I have people that wanna listen. I always talked about what I learned, but never so passionately. I'm so much more critical of the media I surround myself with. I guess I just realized how blatantly obvious everything is, Most people don't notice as they're scrolling down Twitter or Facebook, but I do now and it's EYE OPENING.
I guess you could even say I learned some advertising techniques just by analyzing ads I see everyday. I see them and think, "Damn they're clever" and I occasionally have to post ads on Facebook for work and I catch myself trying to use them. Like, damn, It's consuming. Imagine all the people who don't even know how consuming it is?? It's crazy how much of my life it's a part of. That's why I've been trying to enlighten my peers about it, Even though I do it with a slightly twitch eye and neck.
Always watching your media intake for ya,
Melanie.
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