In an essay, the author Tisdale elaborates as to how she felt while dieting, “I am sick of the way I acted on a diet, the way I whined, my niggardly, penny-pinching behavior” (14). what people do to their bodies because of the media really affects them more than they would like to think. Dieting usually leads to major depression and lost feelings. Tisdale had these effects, and she expands on the idea saying, “What
Daniel Resultan Professor Steve Fried English 151 1837 16 March 2012 Cupid’s Scent Are you a guy struggling to find the woman of your dreams? Don’t you just wish you could have hundreds of model quality females chasing you because they are sexually attracted to you? The question is how this can happen in real life. Axe advertisers help answer this questions with their commercial for Axe body spray. It’s sometimes a problem for guys when it comes to meeting women.
Advertising effects women’s image (Pro) Hello everyone. Did you know that young women between the ages of 18-34 y Burns have a 7% chance of being as skinny as a catwalk model and only a 1% chance of being as skinny as a supermodel? Advertising affects the women’s image by increasing eating disorders, changing the ideal body image of women over the years, and by creating unrealistic beauty standards. According to a study in pediatrics, about two-thirds of girls in the fifth through twelfth grades said that magazine images influence their vision of an ideal body; about half of those girls said it made them want to lose weight. Some researchers believe depicting thin models does not appear to have a long-term negative effect on adolescent girls but that it does affect girls who already have body image problem.
It only took thirty eight months for seventy four percent of teenagers to feel too big or too fat, and sixty two percent started to diet. Teenagers at risk of eating disorders more than doubled in this time period (Goodman 608). Before watching Melrose Place, Beverly Hills, or 90210, big was beautiful, it was something to aspire to. Then after watching television programs that idolize women with smaller waist sizes teenagers beginning feeling as though they need smaller waist sizes to be attractive. These teenagers are associating being thin with getting the great jobs, the beautiful clothing, and the expensive cars that the characters on their favorite television programs seem to acquire with little to no effort.
This is because the models that are shown in magazines today are size double zero. According to the National Eating Disorder Association, 80% of women are dissatisfied with their appearance. Young girls are motivated to do extreme diets by the physical ideals they see every day in the media. According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, as many as 10 out of 100 young women suffer from an eating disorder. Young women want to look like the models they see in the media, but most images are modified with special computer effects, so they have no chance of looking like them.
From an early age we have been shown with images and messages that reinforce the idea that to be happy and successful we must be thin. Even if someone reads magazines, newspaper, watch television it will say that being fat is very bad. The most frightening part is that this destructive message is reaching kids. Many of them feel bad that they don’t look like that actor or actresses. There is always a low self-image body against women by media.
Discrimination or stereotyping based on an individual’s weight is known as weight stigma and is an increasing problem in society today (Thomas, S., Hyde, J., Karunaratne, A., Herbert, D., and Komesaroff, P., 2008). Individuals with weight problems are constantly ridiculed and stigmatised in a number of locations and social settings around the globe. This constant humiliation appears to be encouraged within society and negatively affects the victims of the stigma (Wang, S., Brownell, K. and Wadden T., 2004). When weight stigma appears in the media, it can form inaccurate stereotypes, sensationalise issues through unwarranted references to obesity and use demeaning languages to represent individuals in these groups that are stigmatised. The obesity ‘epidemic’ is becoming of major concern and until recently there were very little studies designed to focus on weightism and anti-fat attitudes.
How exactly does the media portray women? The easiest way to answer this question is to take a look at how the media depicts success and beauty in regards to women. Some of the most successful women in the celebrity world are known for one thing: their bodies. “Female empowerment, as portrayed in the media, is achieved through sexuality” (Generation M: misogyny in media & culture 62). For example, at the MTV Video Music Awards, Madonna and Britney Spears locked lips in what was considered more than “a peck on the cheek”.
Advertising is one of the most compelling messengers in a culture that can influence an adolescent. In the article by Kilbourne, she starts out by making a great point. She says, “ Adolescents are new and inexperienced customers- and such prime targets.” I agree with her statement because in many movies, magazines, and television shows targeted towards teenaged viewers, the “ideal” body type is constantly portrayed. I’ve noticed that in many cases, it’s the main character whom everyone envies because of her beauty. In magazines, the “ideal” body type is always on the cover so teens wont be able to miss it.
Ahmed 1 Sami Ahmed Professor Grannis English 112 7 December 2008 The Medias Affect on Teenagers The rise of violence and sexual activity in teenagers has placed the entertainment industry under scrutiny. Parents blame the industry for exposing their children to inappropriate content at a tender age. The industry has argued that the rating system at place should give the parents control over the content viewed by their children. Now let us find out whether the content of the media has an affect on teenagers? Or if it is the parent’s responsibility to regulate what teens watch?