One other factor that adds to the dilemma is the American pastime of avoidance. The majority of both sexes spend a great deal of their time not here and now in the calculable future, but somewhere else, in the irrelevant other worlds of sports and soap operas and will find it hard to resist the encroachments of those who would manipulate and control it. Although most of us are still stuck in the cult of American media, through the haze of manufactured happiness, we are realizing that we must stop its monopoly on the production of meaning. The media has no soul, no morals. The media is not much more than an efficient way of creating revenue and when we as a society stop allowing the media to control and manipulate women and people in general we could solve a great deal of problems.
Humans are in a constant search for something.
What we need to do is create an environment of equality for young boys and girls and allow girls to develop their true selves, not the ones they think the world wants. We need to downplay the importance of physical features and stress the virtues of character. If every parent of a girl starts by overcompensating for the damage done by the media so far, much ground can be gained. If grown women learn that maybe what we have been told our whole lives is not true we can begin to start fresh. The unrealistic portrayals of women by the media have quietly been destroying the psyche of American women and it has gone unobstructed for too long.