The movie Perfect Body is about a young girl named Andie Bradley who has big dreams and will stop at nothing to achieve them. She is a gymnast whose dream is to participate in the Olympics. Andie gets the opportunity to be able to train with one of the best coaches in the U.S. At Andie’s first lesson, her coach criticizes her for her body weight saying that she is too big. This bothers Andy a lot so she is hard on herself and feels pressured to lose weight. Andie develops a good diet, however after some advice from her teammate telling her that there are ways around eating and not gaining any weight.
Margo’s ambition in All About Eve is what leads to the downfall of her great career. In The Film it is quickly noted that Margo is an ageing woman and an actress that is beyond her years. She is also very self-conscious of her age and mostly keeps it a secret until she confesses to Lloyd that she is “40, 4-0”. We see though out the film that the director Joseph Mankiewicz uses lighting techniques to make Margo’s skin seem very old and weathered. Margo’s main ambition in the movie is to ensure that Bill still loves her.
Today, the advertising world promotes products to young girls using thin models influencing them that being thin is the only way to be. Fashion designer Ralph Lauren fired a female model because she was considered to be too fat because she wore a size 4. When these stories come about, this causes women to have problems with
Mia is surrounded by many people who look as if they should be on the cover of Vogue magazine with their slender sun kissed bodies, making Mia feel ugly and not good enough. It did not help when Mia’s mom called Mia fat, that led Mia to have all sorts of body image problems. As Mia hangs out with Simon more and more she starts to realize that she is beautiful just the way she is. Simon’s one liners like ‘letting go’ and ‘just living in the moment’ really helped Mia to figure who she truly is and to not worry about what others think about her. The tone that the author set was complication and romance.
They’re learning that physical beauty is the primary judges of their character and not their brains. Child beauty pageants are wrong because it encourages sexuality at a young age, they can also create harm for that child, and they are sometimes being forced by their parents to compete. Young girls parading around a stage wearing a bikini and pounds of makeup is very wrong. The outfits that they are wearing are outfits some grown women wouldn’t even wear because it’s so inappropriate. There is a popular television show called Toddlers and Tiaras that documents what goes on during these child beauty pageants.
The Dark Matter of Beauty It is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but in today's media, beauty is perfectly out lined image forced upon society, especially women. The strive to be beautiful is plastered everywhere in the media, trough advertisements, magazines, movies, and television. The "ideal" form of beauty has been etched into every mind of females since they were young girls through media consumption. One must be thin, have a big bust, have a certain hair or eye colour, certain facial features; these aspects in order for society to find a women beautifu is never ending . This image created by the media can have many negative effects to the body image of women by leading extreme vanity and obsession with being perfect, major insecurity and depression, and even eating disorders.
Her agenda are to use man for money and anything else she need to look glamour and to survived. Like, most parent ask their self why many teenage dress like, ‘hoochie-mom’. Are we considering them as ‘hoochie-mom’ or are they acting like a prostitute or maybe, they may be the fastest who are wearing sexy clothes. Many of them get on face book with a picture of them self being half dress holding some type of alcohol bottle to show that they are sexy. Most teenage tell about their sexy life and taking picture with their boyfriend kissing just to be cool.
Putting aside the differences they have a trait in common; they are true life stories that happen to women on a daily basis. The poem “Barbie Doll” is very different from the poem “La Migra.” It is a very discouraging poem because the destructiveness of the standards of female beauty led to the girl’s death. The young girl classmates used to make fun of her big nose and fat legs. “Everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs.”(line 6). She got to the point that she was not strong enough to take all the pressure, so she cut herself up and offered her legs and nose up.
The article is a representation of the critical attitudes of our society in relation to physical flaws and that even the most beautiful celebrities are not exempt. Young women who model themselves after actresses and other celebrities often perceive that having less than perfect figures or facial features is unacceptable. Their flawed perceptions may prompt the development of low self-esteem, eating disorders, and even extreme alterations in body shape and features through the use of plastic surgery. All of these attempts to satisfy their ideas of perfection can eventually lead to the damage of mind, body and spirit. In past generation’s women waited for marriage before having sex, but the mindset of many of the women of today is just the opposite.
DRESS CODE FOR WOMEN? An expert in women studies has created an outrage in the country, with a recent comment which suggest that a universal dress code for women could end sexual harassment. The former department head of woman studies at Bangalore University says that a dress code should be maintained for all woman for their own good. Recently, Roadies, a reality show on MTV also questioned their contestants about the same topic. It was shocking to know that most of the contestants agreed to the fact that a woman's clothing depicts her character, which in turn causes attraction of the opposite gender, and eventually leads to rape.