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
This is a mental illness common to the young woman. This illness happens because people call you fat even though you are skinny. To not get teased in society you have to look and act normal. Cassie is the one that looks the hottest and that’s why the boys remember her name while referring to the other girls by their appearance. Forgotten Jelly shows us how people
The program will be beneficial to the girls because it will allow them to feel accepted for who they are, not having to pretend to be someone they are not. They will be grouped with other girls whom many of them have the same issues and
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. I think that there needs to be a clear message that tells young girls that because if there isn’t it could become very dangerous for
But the REVLON advertisement clearly conveys why their make- up collection is best. In this ad the diction used appeals to more females. The advertiser used celebrity endorsement to persuade one to purchase their product. Susan Sarandon is a well-known actress. The close up on Susan Sarandon’s face is used to show how beautiful she is because she uses REVLON.
On May 6, Patty cried out to the public, through making a video and posted it on a social media website called Youtube, titling it, “Pretty or Ugly”. On this video, Patty wanted the honest truth on how people looked at her. Her peers responded to this video, not with love and compassion for a teenage girl who struggles with self-esteem, but with mockery and judgment. On the same day as Patty posted the video, the bullies posted on her wall stating how the video was “rad and totally epic”. The very next day, May 7th at 4:14pm, Ms. Desolatia posted on her Facebook, “sigh… I swear today was the worst day that I have ever had before; I just wanted to kill myself.
Each girl that was interviewed was pregnant, and every one of those girls had different opinions as to how they responded to the act and or thought of abortion. Barbara was one of the girls that were being interviewed in this documentary. In the documentary, she was a 17 year old mother with a 2 year old son. The father of her child was a violent man, which eventually led to them breaking up. When Barbara found out she was pregnant another time, she felt an abortion would be the best decision because she had little money to support her and her son already, and her mom said that she would not help her daughter with to have another baby.
A cult grows in America chapter really talked about how the cult is taking over the American society. Society, family and friends pressure women to look a certain way which leads to extreme disorders. Hesse-Biber interviewed young women who were in the cult and you are able to get a point of view from a past cult member. One person really stood out the most to me that Hasse-Biber mentioned was Delia. 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.
In the first reading, “Socializing to be Thin”, I support Mrs. Donovan’s fact that The social network has a major affect on teenage girls developing eating disorders. By seeing images of your favorite celebrities on face book everyday as you would see them on television it can also give the teenage girls more of a personal look into the life of how the celebrity is so fit and what they eat or do to maintain it. The celebrity advertisement on face book provides young women to get Influenced by them and in the process it also lowers their self esteem because they Don’t realize that the size they maybe at their age is actually a healthy weight compared to the
Businesses spend thousands of dollars on creating commercials that appeal to the consumers; it can create different images on the consumers’ minds which can be negative or positive. In this paper I will prove how the media has influenced different people in different ways, how it has shaped their life into two ways; negative and positive. Media’s Portrayal of Women Pressure to Be Thin Women are distracted by their appearance, particularly women are highly conscious about their weight and bodies. Research has shown that nearly half of the girls aged between 12 and 17 have been on a diet (Patton, et al; 1997), more and more young women show the signs of anorexia (Kilborne, 1997). In a survey conducted by the Glamour Magazine showed that when asked women if they could achieve one goal what it would be, they all said they would lose weight (Wooley and Wooley, 1984).