She admits that the job of changing America's bad eating habits will be a big task to handle. There would be tremendous push back from food corporations, conservative politicians such as Palin and the American people themselves. She feels the best way to get people eating right is to make it seem like a very appealing choice instead of enforcing laws(404). Birkenstein, Cathy, and Russel K. Durst. "They Say/I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing: With Readings.
Peggy says that the girlie girl culture we are living in is increasing issues like eating disorders, body weight issues and unsafe sexual behaviour. The author says “According to the American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture’s emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls’ vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents: depression, eating disorders, distorted body image, risky sexual behavior." (Orenstein, 6). Society expects females to beautiful and always strive to stay thin, therefore Peggy is going against those stereotypical views and saying that those unreasonable expectations are resulting in self-conscious girls with eating disorders, unsafe sexual practice and depression. Further on in the book, Peggy discusses how the emphasis on girl’s beauty from the culture that we live in is greatly inspired by Disney princesses promoting the idea that girls should be “the fairest of them all”.
The article is constructed with teenagers, role models and celebrities to communicate effectively with teenage girls. It contains simplified terminology and information in comparison to “Medicine Today” which is constructed differently to communicate effectively with the target audience. “The Big Issue” is constructed to grab a teenage girls attention to explain about the health issue of overweight teenage girls. Countless teenage girls are affected by obesity, therefore steps need to be taken to prevent this psychological and physical health
The slender, “beautiful” women are regarded as influential, successful, and erotic. This being said, it is very much so based on facts and reason, also known as logos, in the aspect that real life is often viewed this way. Throughout Elementary school up to High school, no one wanted to be best friends with “the fat kid”. As the world already knows, girls and women in general seem to stress over their physical appearance and have been especially concerned about weight for many years now. The emotional effect media has on a woman’s mindset, or ethos, could very well send her overboard into what is commonly known as an eating disorder.
Delia came from an easy life where she got everything she wanted but the pressure to maintain a certain look was pushed down on her by her parents especially her mother. Delia states that her mother said “only eat small amount, don’t overeat”. She was also influenced by Glamour and Vogue magazines that had pictures of beautiful thin women. At that point she started binging in secret at age thirteen and she thought that “I can eat and not get the calories and not gain weight.” Delia allowed herself to continuously binge and have this image of being thin at all times. Delia’s story was important to Hesse-Beber’s argument because it showed how the different factors such a family and media outlets really influence women how to look a certain
A study published in the Journal of Communication found that high school girls as young as thirteen are affected by the media’s portrayal of ultra-thin models and celebrities. The article goes on to say if children grow up and see thin women in advertisements, on television, and in film, they accept this as reality despite evidence in the ‘real word’. This is called the cultivation theory. Ultra thin women depicted in the media are constantly influencing American female youth who are most prone to developing eating disorders as a result of repeated exposure to such images. This article is saying the reason for the increase in eating disorders is directly related to the
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.
I know how we always want the next new makeup or hair product that’s going to make s look like the model in the commercial. Women can’t just run to the store in sweat pants because they value their appurtenance too much. Women don’t feel as confident when they don’t look nice, but men don’t really care either way. In the reading, “Do thin Models Warp Girls Body Image?” I agree with Nancy when she says thin models on the runway or on TV can cause very young girls to become anorexic or bulimic. Nancy says, “Girls are being bombarded with the message that they need to be super-skinny to be sexy.” (Hellmich 706) I believe that is very true when she says that but what young girls don’t realize is that you could be beautiful and sexy with any body type that you might have.
Models of a very low weight are setting bad examples to these girls and can be held responsible for the increasing number of girls with eating disorders. The fact that some websites celebrate anorexia and hold up skeletal models as examples to follow
Let me remind you again that this is why girls under 16 shouldn’t be allowed to be models. The fashion industry is to blame for most girls’ fixation on being thin according to the 89% of respondents who took part in a survey conducted by the Girl Scouts of Australia. Psychologists and eating-disorder experts are worried about this and so should we all. These children are part of the future generation. No one wants to see what could have been bright and healthy futures taken away from them simply because of their diet.