Op-Ed Outline

Structure	Outline
Main Argument It is best to identify and highlight your main argument in the first or second paragraph of the op-ed	Hook- The average American is exposed to over 3000 ads every day. Thesis- ·       Everyday, girls are bombarded with sexualized images from every media platform. ·       the pressure to look sexy is starting earlier and lasting longer Argument: ·       people are influenced by all media, especially advertisements ·       We know that sex has been used for selling, but now a days we are targeting the smaller audience. ·       Physical characteristics are considered to be the only indicator of sexiness ·       Sex is nothing new when it comes to selling a product- it is only new when the women used to sell the products are girls-5 year old girls
First Supporting Statement Statement supports the main argument	Advertisement of clothes girls at increasingly younger ages are invited to try on and wear teen clothes designed to highlight female sexuality. Wearing such clothing may make it more difficult for girls to see their own worth and value in any  way other than sexually. ·       Halloween ·       Look like hookers ·       pathetic ·       Beyonce’s clothing line ·       Tacky ·       High heels ·       Push up bras for little girls ·       Thongs for 5 year olds ·      imagine a 5-year-old girl walking through a mall wearing a short T-shirt that says “Flirt.” Imagine it is your daughter
Second Supporting Statement Statement supports the main argument	Advertisement in Toys sexualized dolls are marketed to girls. ·       advertisements of toys “hooker-chic” Bratz ·       Bratz targeted for 4-year-olds ·       Advertising- age compression- dolls were targeted for girls 9-12, now they sell breastfeeding dolls for 5 year old girls ·       Mi Bebe Gloton ·       The breastfeeding doll ·       doll that cries to suck on the nipples of little girls ·       Bratz dolls come dressed in sexualized clothing such as miniskirts, fishnet stockings, and feather boas ·       Bratz girls are marketed in bikinis, sitting in a hot tub, mixing drinks, and standing around ·       Children’s dolls are made-up to look like prostitutes
Third Supporting Statement Statement supports the main argument	Advertisement in Magazines ·       girls often appear with sexualized adult women and are posed in matching clothing or seductive poses. ·       Vogue ·       10 year old model ·       heels and a dress with a cleavage cut to the waist ·       This isn’t what you see when you watch real kids playing dress-up. The body language and facial expressions are adult-staged and adult-choreographed. ·       Do they make people associate young girls with adult sexuality? ·       Do they make it easier for people to believe that young girls want to be involved in adult sexual relationships?
Specific Recommendations/Solutions	we need to replace all of these sexualized images with ones showing girls in positive settings - ones that show the uniqueness and competence of girls When I will be a mother will girls be wearing push up bras and panties at the age of two? Will my daughter want to wear sexualizing clothes at the age of 5? If the media keeps doing this, probably yes. But I will have to say: “Hey, your only 5. There is no way in hell that you are going to wear that”, and mothers should start saying that to their daughters right now.
Strong Ending It is best to have the ending, to the extent possible, wrap up the beginning or reference some theme introduced at the beginning of the op-ed.	Girls get this message repeatedly: What matters is how “hot” they look. The insistent and ubiquitious presentation of this unbalanced view of the world is nothing less than a form of child abuse. children’s imaginations are dying. Little girls aren’t women. They aren’t even adolescents. They are children, and we need to respect that.