My group along with the other social justice visited the Paley Center for Media. We attended one of their classes called “Girls, Body Image, and the Media” Caroline, was the lady who helped us learn more about our topics. Once we arrived she greeted us and led us to a small auditorium. First she started talking about media in general and how it evolved over time. Then we shared some things we were focusing on. One of the things we did during this class was look at many different clips from TV shows, movies, commercials, music videos. The clips were from many different time periods. Some were from the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and some were modern day ones. This gave us a chance to see how the beauty culture industry evolved over time and how the standards of what is expected form a women have changed. It was very interesting to see how women are always portrayed as weak and not being able to stand up for themselves. They are always the ones who need someone to save them, and they are the ones who need to impress the man. Another thing that I found very interesting was the toys that are made for girls. There are games called Girl Talk, and barbies that show a lot of skin. The dolls are unrealistically skinny, big eyes, long perfect hair, long legs, skinny waist. These are the types of images that young girls are surrounded by everyday and the society impact them to be this persons they are not. I have seen some of these clips and toys before but what was different this time was that Caroline pointed out all of the little things I missed. She pointed out how the toys were made for girls to dress up and put make up on. The clips made girls feel insecure about themselves, and that they always need a man to make them feel good. In one particular clip from the Vampire Diaries one of the main characters is asked why she wants to learn how to fight vampires. She replies that she wants to learn how to fight because her vampire boyfriend left her. Everything revolves around the boy being desperate for the girl. After the class my group talked about everything we learned and saw. We came to the conclusion that if young girls are exposed to these types of stereotypes when they are young then they are more likely to feel insecure when they are older. Caroline helped us understand this more. She said that young girls look up to the older girls. So if the older girls worry about being prefect for the right guy, then the younger girls are most likely to worry about their looks at a very young age. Our trip to the Paley Center was very educating and the experience of talking about all of these things in a group was extremely helpful. Caroline also gave us passes to come back and visit the museum in our free time if we want, which is going to be extremely helpful for the rest of our project.