“We live in a look-obsessed, media-saturated, ‘girl poisoning’ culture” (Pipher, 1994). Girls these days are looking for someone who they can base their life upon, a good mentor. Unfortunately, most of the women girls choose to idolize are photo shopped, or are not comparable to regular persons. Wanting to be like these women is causing a lot of problems, in the adolescent girl who already has enough problems as it is. As some men like to think, boys don’t have to worry about adolescence as much because of a popular belief that boys don’t strive for the same kind of perfection as young girls. “We expect too much of boys—and we don’t expect enough” (Kindlon & Thompson, 2000). Boys don’t have the same pressured, but they do have pressures that are unrealistic. Some major issues in adolescence today consist of body image, depression and school performance that can lead to suicide.
One issue that leads to suicide is body image. “Body Image refers to an......
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