Wild teen girls: Dangerous lifestyle patterns – Part 3

Teenage girls today engage in wild, dangerous, obnoxious behavior for many reasons,

some related to their home lives and some impressed upon them by different forms of media.

Anyone born after 1980 has grown up in an age where marketing tools and strategies

have become more and more sophisticated. The use of computer databases to store massive amounts of information related to the behavior and habits of potential customers allow marketing strategists to develop very specific ad campaigns. They then market every aspect of a persons life, from birth to death. The marketing of attitude and extreme behavior has changed the way young people interact with each other and society at large.

Young girls are often portrayed in the media as tough, sassy and full of attitude. “Keeping it real.” They are also portrayed as being as sexually hungry as teen boys.

Reality shows are a frequent source of this type of portrayal. There is a show called “Exposed” on MTV where either two males or females compete for a date with a member of the opposite sex. The male or female “interviews” the potential suitors by asking them questions. The contestants microphones are connected to a voice analysis machine that speculates whether or not the person is telling the truth. The machine is monitored by a friend of the interviewer, who relays the result of the answer via an earpiece. The friend is in the back of a disguised truck located nearby.

Granted the contestants are all around 18-24 years of age. However, the show is easily accessible to teens and preteens who soak up what they see the older kids doing and mimic that behavior.

At the beginning of each episode the person who decides which contestant to date introduces themselves with a heavy dose of sexual innuendo. The women are usually scantily clad.

After that , the two contestants are introduced. They are shown meeting face to face. As the contestants approach each other they trade insults and mocking remarks. The girls generally make each other out to be sluts, make derogatory comments about their clothing or that they are unbelievably ugly.

To the young viewer this may seem to be the way cool, older kids speak to each other. Suddenly you have a “dozens” contest going on in the sixth grade lunch line.

When a young man sits the girls down for a Q & A the questions usually revolve around either gross or sexual behavior. One of the most often asked questions by the males is “Have you ever kissed or hooked up with a girl?” followed by “Did you like it?” The girls, sometimes sheepishly, sometimes boldly most often answer yes to both questions. This enforces to young women that it is expected and desired by men that they be bisexual. If a woman is attracted to women naturally, as a lesbian, then she has made that choice on her own, not as a result of peer pressure or imagined social expectations.

On another recent episode, a female is questioning two males. When she is first introduced to them she exposes her breasts to them and asks if they like what they see. They grin and mumble “Hell, yeah.” During her Q & A she asks if they consider their anatomy to be “OK” or “Oh My God.” One boldly answers that his is in the “oh my God” category and she asks if he will show her. He gladly obliges and whips his penis out in her face. She agrees, with a hungry look, that it is definitely an “Oh my God.”

This is only one of many shows, on many networks, that encourage antisocial, promiscuous and potentially risky behavior in both young men and women. While the shows don’t officially endorse these types of behavior, the impressionable minds of it’s viewers pick up on the cue.