Media is Wrong

So many people in the modern world don't know what to think.

Don't know what to think, you say?  What do you mean?

What I mean is that the media puts intrusive, wrongful thoughts and ideas into our heads.  Plenty of youth think that they're bisexual or gay when they're really not.  Some girls think that they have to be so skinny to the point of unhealthiness.  Some boys are led to believe that they have to be rude and watch porn in order to be cool.  Many others, both boys and girls, are the targets of alcohol and cigarette ads so that they can get an early start on shortening their life span.

And it's all because of wrongful media.

I know this because I'm a victim.  Given the fact that I have anxiety, I personally have doubted my sexuality many times because of how much the media puts lustful women in front of our faces.  Very uninvitedly, might I add.  I don't want to see that!  I know for certain that I am one of the most heterosexual girls that you'll meet!  For crying out loud, I've had more than one dream about making love to a boy!  All I can think and talk about are boys!  I know I'm straight!

Because of media's bad intentions, myself and countless other teenagers have had inward struggles about their sexuality and numerous other topics.  Heck, even teenagers without anxiety already are developing it at an unusually fast rate because of how much confusing advertisement is shoved in our faces.

If this doesn't get fixed, our world is just going to go further down the toilet.  And the funny thing is that a very small percentage of people are making these commercials or even want to.  They have too much money to stop or to have anyone stop them.

Money.  Now that's a whole different story.  I could go on about that for at least an hour.  But I'm going to spare you from that.  My only intention was to tell you a bit about what a lot of teenagers worry about today.  Hopefully we can make a difference, bit by bit.

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