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J Diaz 7/30/10 Comm 401A Where the Girls Are Intro, chap 1-6:Reflection First Id like to say that this book does raise some really interesting points and facts about American culture, but my only complaint about the authors writing style is that she went overboard on the examples. Her points were made too thoroughly for my taste, however she makes good points. I liked how she laid out who she is and how American culture and media has in history both demoted and promoted femininity. Still to this day media both objectifies women as sexual objects and promotes an independent style of thinking. I personally think though that the negative sides that she cites such as clothing line models,(or models in general), certain TV shows, and certain political influences are all detrimental toward people. Rather then being who they are personally they are heavily (if not completely) influenced by these icons and live an unhappy life since they can never fully become that perfect person. Though at the same time we have taken strides to better understand our selves and get away from being drawn to perfection of standards. What was surprising to me was the sexual revolution in the 60s as I thought that started more in the 80s. It made a lot more sense though since there were many counter ads to premarital sex in the 60s. What I identified with the most though was how she described the social hierarchy as truly being imbalanced and bias toward women and to some extent poor people. It was worse 50 years ago, but I still think that we deal with some of the same issues that are all caused by an idea that wealthy white men control the template of how society is suppose to act.