On Thursday, December 18, my group and I met with 12th grader Esme Edwards to conduct an interview and talk a little about our social justice project, women in the media. It was interesting to see someone a little around our age group talk about a topic as serious as ours. Not only that but,  because young girls like us and her are constant being hit with the negative sides of media, it was interesting to see how she took it. We got to hear about her views and perspectives about the way young women are portrayed throughout things we have in everyday life, for example something as accessible as Instagram. During our interview we got to learn a lot about and reflect on the way our generation is constantly reviewing and judging ourselves. In a world where beauty is defined by many by the faces on magazines or advertisements, we have to be aware of the negative effects the way media portrays young girls like us. During our interview Esme states, “the extent [in] which people go to achieve the beauty standards are crazy”. I personally thought that this was true and played a big part in our generation. We see it everyday on TV, young women are over sexualized just so they can be accepted, those commercials where those women are portrayed as sex objects are all for those huge, greedy cooperations, and all those ridiculous reality TV shows show just how far our generation has fallen. We need to fix the problem we have created and fed, especially for the girls younger than us, we can’t let them live the way we do.