Family and media

The short video provided by the New York Times asked an interesting question at the beginning of the video. It targeted “older people” and asked “when was the last time you listened carefully to some of the words Rock singers sing?” With that, it explains how rock music has always been controversial, and in the 1980’s, Tipper Gore and Susan Baker had enough and fought against what rock bands were displaying through their lyrics. In addition, they stated that the lyrics were bad, and encouraged unlawful behavior, which initiated a campaigned to put a parental advisory warning labels on albums.Moreover, politicians in the 1950’s accused comic books for displaying negative images which encouraged delinquency among young individuals.

In regards to the Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls, there was a section of the article that i made a connection with the video from the New York Times. There was a parent where she mentioned her seven year old daughter, and stated that her daughter had asked her what a virgin was. In addition, the APA report has a section where it stated that every media form studied provides various examples and evidence of the sexualization of women, including television, music videos, music lyrics, movies, and more. But in this case, it was Madonna’s music video the young lady watched in which the lyrics subliminally caught her attention, which provoked the question of “what’s a virgin?”