About This Blog

As a consumer of the various media that exist today, I have long been trained to eat up anything and everything the media presents to the public, no questions asked. I have bought into the never-ending fads that magazines and commercial corporations constantly market –whether it be the newest diet trend, the hottest brand names to purchase, the sexiest way to style my hair, and so the list continues. I have been stuck on a perpetual endeavor to achieve the unattainable ideals of what it means to be a white, heterosexual woman in modern day America. I have listened to and purchased the popular music of our culture in which the media has molded and manufactured, I have shopped at the fashionable stores and worn the clothes that the media has advertised and made socially acceptable, I have darkened my skin color as the media has communicated to me that tanner is better, and I have cut and dyed my hair to resemble that of a celebrities’ as the media has gawked over what Hollywood hairstyle is the trendiest. I have committed all these acts because that is what the media has forever taught me to do. But when is enough truly enough? When is it time to step back from the mindless consumption that we constantly and habitually perform on a daily basis to think about the ideologies the media is mass marketing to the American public? Who says that what the media declares is even correct? The media has made a living on critiquing the actions, behaviors, bodies, and styles of others; however, who critiques the media? I say it’s time to take a closer, more critical look at the different concepts and ideas the media are relentlessly hounding into our minds. Thus, I have decided to dedicate this blog to those who question what the media is marketing – be it through concepts communicated on a magazine cover, pictures posted on an online website, video clips of musical artists of popular culture America. Whatever the case may be, I will critique the piece in question as you should do the same.