Many women feel insecure, self conscious, and unappreciated because they don’t look like the woman portrayed in the media. Secondly, this image being portrayed by media can resort to unhealthy treatments to lose weight. Woman have tried to stop eating or throwing up their food to stop them from gaining weight, which has only led them to becoming ill. Other women use diet pills and meal supplements to lose weight, however, when they stop taking them, a majority of the time they go back to their previous life style and gain a majority of that weight back. A lot of women exercise to lose weight, but if they have really low self-esteem, they try to push themselves, leaving themselves exhausted and dehydrated; still seeing no results. Women try unhealthy diets, excessive exercising and sometimes anorexia to look a certain way, but in the end, they just end up unhealthy and unsatisfied.
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.
Or perhaps it’s from the magazines that plague the checkout stands at the local supermarkets. 4 Week by week women are exposed to negative body images of themselves and others by means of media. They fall victim to thousands of half-naked women who have perfect bodies, flawless personalities, and beautiful faces; but while this image of perfection is very desirable, it’s extremely unattainable for most. As a result, younger women feel inadequate within society, and older women fear the effects of ageing. Body image is a person’s perception of his or her own physical appearance.1 A person with a poor body image will perceive his or her own body as being unattractive or even repulsive to others, while a person with a good body image will see him or herself as attractive as others, or will at least accept his or her current form.
Erica Nichols Hum/176 Societal tolerance essay 10/9/2012 Recently a story made national news for a controversial issues that involved a news anchor and a viewer, the viewer wrote this anchor a letter explaining that he did not feel it was proper for her to be on air because she was a bad example to kids especially you girls, he stated the reason was because she was overweight and that made the children think it was ok to be unhealthy and want to eat bad and look like her. He included a few names in the letter that he called this anchor, including fat. The letter the viewer sent in was worded in a way that made it sound nice, yet it was rude no matter how it was worded. The anchor used this opportunity to send a message to her viewers
Girls are most effected by this more then guys. If girls are super skinny there anorexic, and if their not skinny there fat. There's no way out and kids are taking their own lives because of this. The person you judge could be being abused at home, some kids have it rough and judging makes it ten times worse. That pushes people to the edge, and causes them to just give up on everything.
Media’s Affect on Teens Media in the form of magazines, infomercials, television, and films have a negative effect on teens and the way teens portray their own body images. Pressure to be “picture perfect” like models increases the risk of harmful dieting and medical problems such as bulimia and anorexia. In today’s society, the ideal body image has continued to become thinner and the dieting techniques have become extreme. With thinner models across magazines, television shows, and movies, the average teen can begin to feel insecure and lose self-esteem. According to Webster’s Dictionary anorexia nervosa is defined as an eating disorder, marked by an extreme fear of becoming overweight, that leads to excessive dieting to the point of severe ill health and sometimes death.
Amanda Mortensen Mrs. Hawkins ENG 102 21 Feb. 2013 Stereotypical Beauty for a Beast Who has ever felt unworthy or not pretty enough? Many times I have wondered: who decided what is beautiful and what is not? With deep thought, I realized that it has been instilled in me since day one what beautiful is. According to the media, pop culture, and society beauty is being skinny, having nice facial features, and a big bust. Every movie I watched growing up instilled this very image into my brain.
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.
Professor Dionne Taylor an expert in criminal law stated “....skimpy outfits and sexual dance moves are ruining the self-esteem of girls. The explicit dance moves and foul-mouthed lyrics fuel negative attitudes towards women and affect women’s confidence, education and even their employment prospects. It is blindly ignorant.” (Cox, 2013) Ever since the launch of YouTube in 2005 the consumption of youth watching provocative music videos has increased and “In August 2008 Teachers reported a rise in sexualised behaviour in children aged seven. “(Jones, date unknown) In July 2013 Walkwood Church of England Middle School in Redditch became the first to ban skirts for girls aged nine. The ban comes as increasing numbers of young girls copy the 'sexy schoolgirl' look popularised by celebrities such as Rihanna and Brittany Speers.
Before, I was a mess. I thought that I was an ugly, horrid monster that no one would ever be able to love. I compared myself to almost every other girl I saw. And I know that a lot of girls do that too. Some statistics show that on a weekly basis girls spend 31 hours watching TV, 15 hours (average) online, and 3.5 hours looking in the mirror.