[Emily]

I believe the situation and class in which a teenager finds herself/himself is the most influential factor in being affected by magazine ads. When I was in high school, none of my friends were plagued by serious disorders such as anorexia or bulemia, and they all read magazines and watched ads. I think the group one belongs to as a teenager contributes the most to any pressure one might feel, since certain cliques aim for popularity through fashion, and others have more down-to-earth goals such as hanging out. The influence of much more intimate contacts are bound to be more powerful than that of distant and impersonal pictures that cannot reject and expel you from a social group.

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Name : Emily, Gender : F, Religion : Atheist, Age : 18, City : Escondido, State : CA, Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, 

[Emily]

First of all, the question begins with an assumption, that women are more emotional than men. However, as everyone is unique, there are several exceptions who have expressed themselves here who can refute this statement. I do not presume to be an expert, but chemicals are mankind’s basic makeup, and the specific levels that regulate our emotional and physical differences do vary. Although women have a different genetic makeup than men that give them basic and obvious differences, emotion and its expression surely depend on individual chemical levels, and indeed quite significantly on one’s environment, especially in the first stages of life. As a rationalist and a woman, half-Chinese, I do not express much emotion myself, at least not to strangers, and I believe that has as much to do with my own genes as my upbringing in a household of supressed feelings. Based on my own experience and my observations of others’, I have seen enough to dispel most of these stereotypes of aggressive men and emotional women, and I hope that we can in the future acknowledge and appreciate the differences that exist between all people as we do here now.

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Name : Emily, Gender : F, Religion : Atheist, Age : 18, City : Escondido, State : CA, Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, 

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