Many people can find it easy to point fingers at advertisers and the media for polluting our minds, but have we ever sat down and thought that maybe we’re also the ones to blame? Theres many clear ways to see how we might be directly influencing people just like media (ex. What we listen to, what we watch, and what we wear). What about the other ways that aren’t so clear to us? Like what we avoid listening to, wearing, and watching. Or how about the ways we portray ourselves in our everyday life.

We don’t think about it but what we might avoid comes from the media too, since we don’t want to fall into a certain stereotype, (ex. wearing chains and our pants really low, people might think were into rap music and all the associations tied to that genre). This can be the media’s blame since they perpetuate the stereotypes and make us look at people who dress a certain way and assume they are as the media portrays them. Making us avoid that look ourselves unless we want others to associate us to that genre. The same principle can be connected to every aspect of our daily lives (ex. what we eat, how we do our hair, even how we speak).

So maybe we too are the ones to blame, falling into these different types of genres. Not Because media told us to, but because media told us not to.