Most women these days would do anything to look pretty and attract the opposite sex. This story gives us the importance of body image to women and they get judged about it. Amber the “finger throated sickness one”. She gets teased because of her anorexic appearance. This is a mental illness common to the young woman.
Keske1 Drew Keske Mrs. Haaser P.1 2/28/12 Body Image Essay Most people like to keep up with the Jones' as far as body image goes. This is the outcome of the astounding media people see and hear every day. Many people wish to lose weight and look like models for the sake of “fitting in.” The media affects the minds of most nearly all teenagers and adults into feeling guilty about their bodies and do what ever it takes to have that waist-size, forcing them to the extremes of harsh dieting, starving themselves, or becoming anorexic or bulimic. This harsh media takes its toll on many teenagers, the most unstable period of a person's life. Teenagers feel guilty about their bodies due to the media, and how they see themselves.
Eating disorders are becoming more common today in society and it is quite unsettling how young women arrive to that point where they get sick trying to fit in. Sharlene Hesse-Biber’s book The Cult of Thinness really elaborates on different reasons why young women specifically join the cult so
Susan Bordo is constantly writing about body image and how the media influences eating disorders because she has done her research and knows what she is talking about. Susan Bordo makes you shit back and think why you didn’t see it that way in the first
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”.
In my opinion, Americans tend to think that their appearance is everything and go to great measures to get their desired looks. I also believe that people in society are always trying too hard to make them self look like their ideal celebrity. I feel that men and women have different standards when it comes to appearance and how they view it. I also agree with Nancy Hellmich in her article, “Do Thin Models Warp Girls Body Image?” as she says that girls are becoming skinnier and skinnier as the years go by. I think as society tends to focus on their appearance more, it also becomes more dangerous.
Female Athlete Triad is a serious health issue that involves disordered eating, low bone mass, and amenorrhea (cessation of the menstrual cycle) in female athletes. The condition is most common in sports that stress leanness, such as cross country running, gymnastics, and figure skating. In the past 25 years, much has been learned about symptoms, risk factors, causes, and treatment strategies for Female Athlete Triad. Studies involving different types of athletes have provided valuable information that has helped many physically active women avoid the health problems of this condition. Low-calorie diets are usually the first sign of eating disorders.
The many celebrities like Miley Cyrus and magazines who all try to portray their idea of a woman, alter and distort their perception of womanhood. These girls wear overtly sexual and suggestive clothing and opening act promiscuously in their interactions, forced to go through extreme diets, wear large amounts of make-up and even modify their bodies through surgeries all due to the cumulative pressures of friends, family and their developed self-confidence issues to become this counterfeit ideal. These girls wear uncomfortable heels, constricting clothing and skimpy outfits to hyper sexualize themselves. This is what they believe it takes to become fun, sexy and a desirable woman in today’ society. They go out, drink, “grind” and “twerk” (different forms of highly sexual dancing), and hook up with random guys.
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.
(Hamilton and Beck 2005) stated National Collegiate Athletic Association study of eating disorders in athletes revealed 1.1% of female athletes met the criteria for bulimia, but not for anorexia. This research explained problems in weight control behaviors which cause female athletes to feel negative about their appearance. Weight control behaviors are a major challenge when dealing with eating disorder. It makes women feel as though they have to be thin in order to compete at the highest level in their sport which is not even n important factor