Narrative
Growing up, I never realized that my life was being silently influenced by media and technology. Like most young girls, I played with Barbies, American Girls Dolls, and was quite the Disney movie fan. After reading Christensen’s, “Unlearning the Myths That Bind Us,” I now am seeing life through a new lens. Both, as an educator who works with today’s youth/teens, and in my very own social life. Christensen questions the effects of movies (Disney), cartoons, television, and music have on children and teens. She believes that many Disney movies are based on princesses that are based on our society’s viewpoint of “perfection.” Disney movies set the ideal of what women should look like. They also embed in children’s minds that they need to find a “prince” in order to be happy. As I sit here writing this narrative paper, I’m still pondering if my life choices have actually been my very “own” choices. This is because I have in fact always put a lot of pressure on myself to strive for ...