Media... normal or fake?

Idealized images surround the world entirely. Every image is set to portray and aim towards a group of people. We may not realize how an image effects us. It may not cross our mind initially but it can effect us at any time. I believe media aims more towards young women than me; but young men still encounter this "image". The tabloids make females feel they have to have a sense of "style" and a specific "look" to be "normal". But who is deciding this "normal"? Who is choosing what the right image is?
Idealized images are every where. There is no specific time and place to look for such images but just in daily life. A female may be happy about themselves, but then that image comes into view. Some young girls may be out shopping for what they like, but then they see a clothes ad or other women with that "beauty look". From magazines to television to billboards and newspapers, the world around us is full of this specific image. The people then believe they have to be the same or better than this image they see, change who they are, or become someone new.
High school is a time when young women really look into this image. Girls believe they have to be "perfect" to get the boy they are eying, to get the student body to like them, and to even just be noticed. And young men all seem to have to be this jock, the guy all the girls want, or the hard ass everyone's afraid of. Teenagers can't really ever seem to know what they want to be or what they should be looking like.
Media has over taken society. If something isn't cool anymore, then why stick with it? Why not try the cool new thing? Change who you are to get others to like you; that's all the messages we are receiving. The media isn't just about the looks we see but the things we do. Say a young girls idol is Lindsay Lohan, since she is doing all these "bad things", is that what she should do? Become anorexic, so drugs, go out drinking and partying all the time.
Just because media says and shows a way of "life" doesn't mean that's the right life to live. Be the person you want, not what others are doing and looking like. The tabloids and adds are there life, its not just the norm.