Blog Reflection: Steph You

       I learned a lot about the available media outlets and content/message provided and targeted to teenage girls. Through my own content development process and our class debate on standards of appropriateness, I realized the importance in sending our youth, particularly young girls, empowering and healthy images of womanhood and particularly, images of women being actively engaged in leadership, whether it be in art, entertainment, politics, or business. Since I was a teenager, I always "trolled" the internet for empowering, some may say "Feminist," content and had kept a word doc of pictures,quotes and speeches that resonated with me and this blog was a great opportunity to share some of the media "gems" I've collected over the years. I was lucky to have my own archives of empowering media, also through my personal Pinterest and Tumblr accounts where I had reposted things,  to draw on for this project due to the very objectifying, dainty and unimportant nature of most of the mainstream content targeted to teen girls. I think blogs like the ones our class created are very important in providing empowering resources for young girls and to groom future female leaders. A counter to the mainstream media's objectifying and unrealistic images of woman need to be cultivated and presented to our youth, on and off the internet.

xo Steph You