U1A7- That’s More Than Just My Opinion Assignment #4 By: Chelsea Holmes Many women around the world are being brainwashed by the appeal of how a woman should looked, based on the media’s perspective. They show women as skinny, chesty, and cane free but when they Photoshop these women, they don’t take into consideration the feelings of women. The media’s idea of a woman’s body image can negatively impact her self-esteem. It can cause them to feel fat and ugly, result to harmful and unhealthy weight loss and it can cause suicide. The media’s idea of how a woman should look causes many women to feel fat and ugly about themselves.
In our society many girls believe that image is everything and strive to become the ‘perfect size zero’. In this generation style is everywhere; magazines, popular clothing brands and t.v shows which all promote size zero models. Models are constantly blamed for setting a bad example for young girls when majority of the models are also feeling the pressure to be perfect by the media and modelling agencies who will not accept models who are not under a healthy weight of size 6/8/10 or above as it as commonly seen as ‘fat’ or ‘plus size’. Many models suffer from anorexia nervosa which is an eating disorder cause by people restricting their food intake because of fear of gaining weight. Those who are suffering from anorexia often view themselves at ‘too fat’ and overweight although majority of them are unhealthily underweight.
Likewise, more women than men tend to apply for lower-paying cashier positions-a trend that inadvertently skews averages down for women. This is what makes it seem that women and men are paid differently. Walmart has taken the steps to reduce the disparity occurring in the promotion and pay of women and men. They told their 50,000 managers to promote more women and minorities, with 15 percent of the managers’ bonuses tied to achieving
When girls go through puberty and gain body fat, most of them will start to differ from the images burned in their heads by the media of the “perfect” body, causing them to develop negative body images and self-esteem issues. “The mass media has long been criticized for presenting unrealistic appearance ideals that contribute to the development of negative body image for many women and girls” (Hargreaves and Tiggemann, 2003, p. 539). So, even though advertisements may be seemingly innocent, they may be causing harmful implications that affect adolescent girls for the rest of their lives. How Do Television Advertisements Affect Body Image? In the course of a hour television show, how many times do networks run advertisements for diet pills or food that will magically cause viewers to lose weight and look as skinny as the people in the commercial?
However, the hourglass figure that cover girls seem to posses are however not always real. Nowadays, with professional Photoshop skills, any photo can be warped into something totally different. Media uses such technology to conceal the true image of these women morphing the way people perceive an ideal body along the way. Media being immature as it is trying to use such images of thin, young, airbrushed female bodies to promote a “perfect” body image to the public which causes women to feel the lack the confidence in their body creating negative effects. In Singapore television, don’t you often see the London Weight Management promoting their packages by showing how women lost 20kg over 5 months?
Should a female actually achieve this body image or weight, she would be classified as underweight. Risks associated with being underweight include anemia, nutritional deficiencies, osteoporosis, cardiac problems, increased susceptibility to illness and infection and poor wound healing (Linken, 2009, para.6). Furthermore, the media’s effect on the self-esteem of young girls has resulted in deadly damaging conditions such as eating disorders (binge eating, bulimia, and anorexia nervosa), mental depression and physical depression (Von
What they wear, is what we want. We feel the need to look exactly how they are depicted to us and this is how models and the media affect body image – the most significant concern in young females in contemporary society. These skinny models project negative and false expectations of what girls are meant to look like at such a young age where their biggest concern should be their education. Beauty is positioned as the paragon of most teenage girls lives, and this is what causes many common problems to evolve around their lives, particularly eating disorders. Luisel Ramos is an example of a particular model who suffered from an eating disorder only wanting to be accepted into the modelling industry.
Christyn Rivera Mr. Baca English 11 May 2nd, 2014 Does the Media Have a Negative Effect on Teen Girls Dieting Habits The way the media targets teen girls with overly photo-shopped models, can lead girls to feel pressured to be a certain way. I am writing this essay because I feel that the media is a bad influence to teen girls. I strongly feel that the media portrays these images that are photo-shopped to teen girls to be a certain way, or a certain size. It gets to a point where teen girls become anorexic, pressured, and can lead to depression. The focus of this research was to see what caused girls to be so pressured into being really thin or why some girls were anorexic.
According to modern day society, girls should walk and talk pretty, have perfect skin, and cake on makeup; they should watch their weight and keep up with the newest trends in fashion. The mass media depicts unrealistic images of beauty, which have led many adolescent girls to attempt to become these unattainable figures. Girls go to extreme measures to imitate society’s impractical beliefs of beauty. The pressure that society puts on women to be thin is unhealthy, which links to the increasing rate of eating disorders and psychological problems among young women. There have been plenty of studies linked to the negative impacts of body image caused by the media.
The Effects of the Past Continue to Affect Women’s Wage The gender wage gap has narrowed faster because women have showed labor market experience in the last twenty years. In the last two years, the wage gap between men and woman has changed from 77.0% to 77.4%; therefore, the wage gap has been closer between these two genders (“Gender” par. 1). In ancient times, everything was different for these two genders because men were the people who kept the economy of their families. For example, women used to do just domestic tasks and take care of their children at home and men were responsible to work very hard to bring money to their homes.