It's still a long way coming: the importance of humanizing the same-sex marriage discussion
Creator
Antinora, Sarah
It's still a long way coming: the importance of humanizing the same-sex marriage discussion
Creator
Antinora, Sarah
Sex and the City
Creator
Gennaro, Stephen
Sex and the City
This essay examines the marketing discourse of 'perpetual adolescence,' which trains both young and old to be consumers of 'youth' in a marketplace that privileges adolescence over adulthood. The main purveyor of this discourse is the media, and even more specifically, television, which de-stabilizes identity formation by over-saturating the individual with images and identities for possible ownership and consumption.