Women's Rights & Issues

question everything

(48,671 posts) Fri Jul 7, 2023, 10:12 AM Jul 2023

There is a talk, again, about how social media, especially TikTok, harm young women

and again I wonder: it has been more than 50 years since women started taking their place in society, any occupation that they chose, financially independent to take bank loans, to purchase houses, anything.

Why, then, do they lack self esteem that they need those imaged on social media to measure their worth?

I don't have daughters but if I had, I would like to think that I would raise them to measure their worth by their personality, by their accomplishments, by their view of the world, by their friends, by caring about others, by contributing to make the world a better place, not by wanting an unrealistic image on social media.

What happened?

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There is a talk, again, about how social media, especially TikTok, harm young women (Original Post) question everything Jul 2023 OP

Advertising? 2naSalit Jul 2023 #1

Where are the parents? Why can't they emphasize her worth regardless of these marketing? question everything Jul 2023 #2

Good question. 2naSalit Jul 2023 #3

2naSalit

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1. Advertising?

Reply to question everything (Original post)

Fri Jul 7, 2023, 10:26 AM

Jul 2023

Marketing campaigns using sex as the lure. Objectification isn't so noticeable for the young when they are looking for acceptance and sizing up their standing in the world of finding a partner for whatever future they imagine. The lenses we give them to see the world through matters as to what they will be able to understand. It's base and those who utilize this aspect of human need is what is pernicious about it, call social engineering or a propaganda campaign, it's still manipulation.

question everything

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2. Where are the parents? Why can't they emphasize her worth regardless of these marketing?

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 7, 2023, 08:42 PM

Jul 2023

instead of expecting "the government" to do something?

2naSalit

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3. Good question.

Reply to question everything (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 7, 2023, 08:48 PM

Jul 2023

But then, O know parents who did everything they should have and still, when the rebellious teens come around, they will be the last people heard. Our outer society has some questions to answer too.

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