Christensen

Christensen
"Unlearning the Myths that Bind us"

Christensen is arguing that the media we have as younger children imbeds into our brain early stereotypes, racisms, and superficial motifs. She reveals that as adults, and parents that it is our responsibility to stop these actions and not let them conitnue because it is not right to have these images being displayed to young children who develop into adults that have these ideas in their heads as being "ok.""Women who aren't white begin to feel left out and ugly because they never get to play the princess."This must be the worst feeling as a non-white women. What little girl (or in my case now) doesn't want to be a princess, or pretend to be one, or be treated like one. When every single princess is white, every single queen and royalty is white, doesn't that give the image as a non-white women could never amount to a princess. This doesn't only make a women feel bad it is also racists, why can't an Africain American women be a princess? There isn't a good reason there should be a non-white princess in a fairy tale, in fact their should be many.

What I dont quite understand is if it is ok to still watch these cartoons, and still have the image of becoming a princess. I know we need to clarify an objective goal that might become in children's heads but are we allowed to still enjoy these fairytales?


"Happiness means getting a man, and transformation from wretched conditions can be acheived through consumption-in their case, through new clothes and a new hairstyle." WHAT?!

This article shows how much the media has effected our everyday lives, and how much we take from the media and relate it to our own lives. It scares me to think that media effects so many people so much that they even go off to the far end, relate video games with violence to true life and use those ideas to cause harm. When has the media probed into our lives too much? When is it ok to censr what we see and take charge to change what our students or children are watching or being exposed to.