Exploratory Draft In this paper I plan to reveal the problems males face with media and how it shows

a false image of what males should look and act like. Our culture rarely hears about these problems because it is not in the male image or ego to want to show their emotions and cant show how much they truly care about their image. I plan to argue that media can also affect males even though we rarely see or hear about it. I believe this is important for people to know because everyone always assumes things like eating disorders are only for females. Although men are less likely to want to lose weight than women, they are much more likely to want to gain weight. Males have many of the same problems as females with their body image, they just dont like to show how much they care about how they look or act. I would like to reach out to both genders between the ages of 12 and 30. Both genders have these problems and people need to see that not only females have these issues. I think males would agree with my topic even though most wouldnt want to admit it. I think it will be more difficult to persuade women about my topic because they may not feel like it is very true. I plan to use many facts and statistics that are very surprising since most people dont know about male problems anyway. There are many articles to use for my research. I found several on the library database that will be perfect for my paper. I am struggling to find a book on my topic that would be a good source to use. I need to use evidence to show that we havent learned a lot about the affect of media on males. I need to find shocking evidence that is fairly new to prove my point to readers. I havent decided on source material from the course, but since my topic is about media it shouldnt be too difficult to find course material to include in my paper. I feel like (as usual in my papers) that I will not back up my argument as much as I should. I always feel like I have used enough evidence but then the comment I get the most from teachers is that it was poorly worded, confusing, or that I didnt use enough evidence. I though about my topic a lot, and I get many mixed opinions on it, some people think its a good topic, while others think its a bad topic. I feel like I can say and give a lot of knowledge to show a side of things people never really knew about in my paper.