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Media analysis is a valid and even venerated study and has in the last few decades revealed a boatload of information about childhood socialization and how it is that we internalize messages, both explicit and implicit in the media. One of my favorite classes in college was one that analyzed male and female sexualization in tandem with developments in media; the sexualization of MTV, music, etc., and how it changed how men and women saw themselves. Whether men thought it was okay to cry, whether women thought it was okay to lie to get what they wanted, how men and women should solicit sex, etc., etc.
The difference between those sorts of credible studies and this (among other things) is that they are presented as actual studies - as correlations and p-values and patient interviews and double-blinding and peer review. This, on the other hand, was hard for me to elevate beyond the level of "loose change" idiocy - I notice a pattern, and therefore it exists.
Another recent and stunning revelation in neuroscience and psychology is just how hardwired we humans are for detecting two things; agency and patternicity. It makes sense, when bolstered by studies in evolutionary psychology, but generally speaking we will find patterns and agency (a conscious force) even when there is none. This is a case of seeing God in the clouds, the Masonic order in the paintings at Denver Airport, or Jesus and the virigin mary in a piece of toast.
I can't be entirely hard on it, because it was interesting, if not particularly accurate.
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