How is the Media effect Social Norms

Most of the music we listen to today has some kind of derogatory/sexual/suicidal/harsh wording in it, and WE as TEENS eat that up! We feel grown and mature listening to sexually explicit things, and they bring sex to the fronts of our minds. At school dances, how many of the songs we listen to have at least ONE sexual reference? Almost EVERY SINGLE SONG!!! That's insane! If you listen to that kind of music (which I will admit, I do as well) you become more likely to accept it as a norm. If my father went through my playlists, he would blush, and my ol' man hardcore. He doesn't allow my brothers to listen to most things because of how rappers refer to girls as "bitches" and "hoes" and he says to always ask yourself "If someone was saying that about your sister, girlfriend, or best friend, would you wanna listen to a song about it then?" And I realized that that's a good point. Women today act as though we need to be treated equal and not as pieces of meat to be used and played with, but here we are encouraging big breasted women to shake their booties and become our role models. When we see famous women do those types of things, we accept them as normal and think we should do them too, so we get our butts out on the dance floor and shake them vigorously to attract all sorts of attention. If we see an actor throwing up and singing about it while looking fabulous, we may try to purge our way to fame and beauty. Now if we see our role models having sex and doing things like that, don't you think that we're much more likely to want to have sex and do those things too? All we have to do is watch a music video about sex, and already we're thinking that we should probably do that sometime, because that is the social norm and being a virgin isn't good anymore.
The media acts as if the act of losing your virginity is a small thing and having sex with lots of people should be encouraged. This causes teens and young people to be more likely to have sex and we all know that young people aren't always the brightest, and don't think about the mistakes they could be making. Thus, unprotected sex happens, then babies and diseases. It's not a bright outlook, I know this, but it's the reality of the generation we're in today. If you accept the media's outlook on how women should look, or how people should act together is decreasing the amount of self-worth  and respect people have for not only themselves but everyone around them. This allows people to treat others with disrespect and use them for their bodies, and when something bad happens, it's so much easier to drop that person and forget. That's what the media has told us, and that is how we act because of it.

Until I write again
Au revior,
~Rayne