Labeling Members of Society: But Why?

It is impossible to escaped labels. It is in our human nature, no matter how disappointing that is. I'm sure we all know plenty of examples of labels that have plagued both genders for decades and even centuries. We discussed these in class plenty of times. I was thinking, though, is the media responsible for creating these labels?

I wonder where we are headed, you know, since media companies are growing substantially every year. Those media companies feed people with a perspective of how we should look, speak, and act. They influence these gender codes. If they are growing, then their influence is growing. It seems like they have labeled just about everything and created a manual to go with it.  It worries me to think originality and the need to be different could be overshadowed by being cool and socially acceptable. It would be nice if the media could find a way to get rid of the labeling system, but it just wouldn’t work.

See, as an audience, we want to see labels. The majority of humans are followers, not leaders. I actually read somewhere that, on average, 5% of people are leaders. This means that most people want someone to tell them how to act or look. They won’t admit this because, most of the time, they aren’t even aware of this happening. Ratings actually increase when recognizable labels are used in television, which has created an endless tug and pull between people and the media. We need them to entertain us; they need us to be entertained. The only way to dissolve the idea of labeling people by size, color, hair color, etc., is to convince the majority to do something that is unnatural to them, make up their own minds.