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the society need to reexamine how they portray gender roles and perhaps think about programs to revise it. I think the biggest influence on gender roles is the television. Television shows portray the male characters as active, noisy, and aggressive, while the girl characters are shown as domestic, concerned about appearance and so on. It really is having a huge impact on the youth. For example, my sister Emma, is seven years old and in love with the infamous Brittany Spears. Brittany is always shown in mid drift showing shirts, with an emphasis on her large breasts and her dancing seductively. My sister wants to be like her. She wants to have those large breasts. She thinks they are necessary to become a beautiful woman. I kind of feel bad for my sister she is at the vulnerable age where she is tempted to strive to become someone that is virtually impossible. A person’s body figure is mostly genetic and my sister is going to have a hard time accepting what she was given.
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