Picture this, your in the car cruising down the highway with your friends when a really popular song comes on the radio. You know every word and every note. You crank it up. Your in the middle of the song when the most sexual line is sung. Your best friend makes a funny face. She feels uncomfortable. Do you?
Racy comments are not uncommon at all in the music that we hear everyday. We're used to it and it's nothing new. Even though the provocative images and nasty comments about breast size and booties shakin' are part of our regular everyday lives, some of us still feel uneasy when we see or hear those things. I don't blame anyone for cringing at it, even I feel icky when I hear them.
The media is trying to transform us (women) into an unattainable image by pressuring us to get plastic surgery and where less and less clothing. We're surrounded by photo shopped pictures of the male's view of beauty.
TV commercials are pressuring guys to be muscular and ripped. They're pushing them to become macho like The Situation from Jersey Shore. Boys are expected to be unemotional, tough and unnaturally developed.
Songs need to be censored more and commercials definitely need to have stricter rules. It doesn't look like that is going to happen too quickly so for the time being, change the channel and look away. Your beautiful or handsome just the way you are and you don't need to change anything for anyone else.