John Wayne seems to have had played a large role in Joan Dideon's views of how men and women should live.  John Wayne is in an "Alpha male" kind of role that Joan believes should be like every man.  In reality, most men are not as macho as she was probably hoping.  The movie has set unrealistic standards that skew normal perception of the perfect person.  Joan has also changed her ideals of the average woman.  Although she is aware that the movie is setting new standards, she does not realize that the movie is sending subliminal messages of fake personalities.

Failblog.org came around in Middle School along with many other website and related media that had a large impact in my life.  Failblog is a website where people can post videos of "Fails" that usually included severe physical injury.  I initially thought the videos were "Bad" and should not be funny but as I watched more and more I became more accostomed to it.  I laughed and enjoyed watching other people get hurt.  This is sort of when I started to lose some of my innocence and started to change my sense of humor.