The difference is that obesity is still discrimination based on physical appearance. Obesity is treated differently than race, because a person may be born into a certain ethnic group, but people believe that obesity is caused by one’s own actions. It may have been caused by parents over-feeding them, certain disease states or genetics, not just over eating or leading a sedentary lifestyle. There are several areas where overweight people face discrimination; at work, applying for a job, while shopping for clothes, traveling, and at school. Obese people are also prejudged by others based on the way they look.
Thus leading to a similarity in that both articles discuss the effects of the mistaken beliefs fueled by our society and misconceptions of history’s impression of the body. The article, “Too Close to the Bone” complicated an idea shown in “Rethinking Weight” because one believes that a cause of weight problems is mostly genetics. In “Too Close to the Bone” by telling about the trials and physiological demand that society has on women of all ages, Seid discusses whether or not obesity is just a disease. Seid took under consideration many researchers and doctors opinions of this topic. Considering
Do you think there is racial bias in advertisements?? Personally, I think there are many racial biases in advertisement and less now because before, there are many inequality advertisement about race and discrimination of many human beings and so advertisement using the method of “discriminating people” will make the people looking at the advertisement (offenders) feel good and so the person will buy the product. One of the biggest discrimination in the world is the black people and the white people and there are many historical evidences in the advertisement saying they are being racist. Also, there are many religious racial biases in advertisement. One of the famous advertisements selling the sandwiches, as you can see on the right, it’s definitely offending the Jewish.
It is collectively an insight of how social media can be so sickening to young adults, while it covers both genders, it it generally focused on women seeing as “it is women’s bodies, rather than any other attributes, which appear to make them worthy of being represented” (206). That quote alone just show how much the female body is of importance in succeeding in this world, and just how fragile it can become due to eating disorders. Media is very negative when it comes to girls of all ages loving themselves, by simply telling them their bodies aren’t beautiful. Which is what Maggie Wykes and Barrie Gunter were trying to bring light on that media reinforce vivid images of femininity, that it has been :”within history of cultural constructions of femininity” (207). It is a cultural phenomenon that media effects those drastically that it has been given a name: body shaming.
Sexism in The Hunger Games Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm once said, “The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, "It's a girl. "” Collins demands that we take notice of the fact that society has made it acceptable to degrade women. The Hunger Games urges society to recognize the way it diminishes women by sexual objectification. From a young age women are told they should act a certain way, usually to please others. In the article, “Controlling your reality” Paige Pfleger states “Reality television can also preserve old fashioned notions about sexual stereotyping.
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.
Television, bill boards, newspaper, radio, magazines etc. are all guilty of applying such pressures to females. Media is also guilty of creating a “cult of thinness” known as cutting girls down to size, infantilizing so grown women appear as children and objectifying women by turning them into objects, cutting out body parts and attaching them to objects in ads. It’s important to understand that the ideal body image that is presented by the popular media is not healthy or realistic. Should a female actually achieve this body image or weight, she would be classified as underweight.
"Negative Effects Media Has on Women- English Media". (YouTube. November 1, 2009. www.youtube.com/negativemediaeffects/enhlish-media ), an inspirational video shows the negative effects that the media has on women by showing the negative female media images. The video explains the frequency of negative media effects by showing the 1950’s celebrity as being a healthy size, and then today’s celebrity as extremely skinny. The video shows how the media constantly bombards us with false images of the perfect woman, showing heartbreaking images of sickly skinny models that became this way because the media told them that they should be skinny-that skinny is beautiful.
There's no question that the opinions of society play a very big role in how we see ourselves, mostly in terms of prettiness. For example, in our society, women are judged greatly on their body weight. Men get criticized for not being muscular enough, although men are not criticized as much as women. There is a lot of pressure to be a certain body type from the pictures and messages the media send out. Two main eating disorders are anorexia and bulimia.
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.