Media Effects On Women
Savannah Glasgow
Mrs. Watts, per. 3
AP Lang and Comp
24 Jan 2013
The Effects of Media on Adolescent Females She stands in front of her full length mirror sucking in her stomach and looking at her body from every angle. Taped to her mirror are cut outs from her favorite fashion magazines of impossibly thin models wearing clothes she can’t afford. She compares every part of her body to the women in the pictures, whom she idolizes, that exemplify a corrupt cultural definition of beauty. Her mother calls her in to the kitchen to eat dinner, and she ponders how she plans on finding another excuse to skip another meal and spend as little time with her family as possible. This girl is an example of one of the many girls feeling unnecessary pressure …show more content…
Being thin is a value that adolescent and adult women alike share, and making a goal that involves the embodiment of this ideal is normal due to its exaggeration within the media. Members of the family raise thinness, especially as a form of femininity, and foster an environment with in the home that obsesses over weight being “crucial to identity” (223). As an effect of such, families that make being beautiful and thin a recognized value, are 2/3 more likely to have daughters that praise the thin ideal …show more content…
When the child rebels, corporal punishment is often involved and there are lots of rules within the household. Often, parents use coercive control to control the food given to the child. The children would be forced to eat, even if they are not hungry. During the teenage years, it is natural for children to rebel, and young girls would rebel by refusing to eat, resulting in weight loss. By having complete control of their bodies, especially the food they put in them, is power to the daughters, as well as a symptom of eating disorders (224). With a critical environment and coercive control being demonstrated within the household, food restriction or weight control can become a mode of self-improvement as well as a form of resistance to parental authority. In a society where the media says a thin body is the ideal body, this sort of food restriction can be considered as self-improvement. With this sort of home life, it seems legitimate that this is another aspect in which the family worships culture and the media
Mrs. Watts, per. 3
AP Lang and Comp
24 Jan 2013
The Effects of Media on Adolescent Females She stands in front of her full length mirror sucking in her stomach and looking at her body from every angle. Taped to her mirror are cut outs from her favorite fashion magazines of impossibly thin models wearing clothes she can’t afford. She compares every part of her body to the women in the pictures, whom she idolizes, that exemplify a corrupt cultural definition of beauty. Her mother calls her in to the kitchen to eat dinner, and she ponders how she plans on finding another excuse to skip another meal and spend as little time with her family as possible. This girl is an example of one of the many girls feeling unnecessary pressure …show more content…
Being thin is a value that adolescent and adult women alike share, and making a goal that involves the embodiment of this ideal is normal due to its exaggeration within the media. Members of the family raise thinness, especially as a form of femininity, and foster an environment with in the home that obsesses over weight being “crucial to identity” (223). As an effect of such, families that make being beautiful and thin a recognized value, are 2/3 more likely to have daughters that praise the thin ideal …show more content…
When the child rebels, corporal punishment is often involved and there are lots of rules within the household. Often, parents use coercive control to control the food given to the child. The children would be forced to eat, even if they are not hungry. During the teenage years, it is natural for children to rebel, and young girls would rebel by refusing to eat, resulting in weight loss. By having complete control of their bodies, especially the food they put in them, is power to the daughters, as well as a symptom of eating disorders (224). With a critical environment and coercive control being demonstrated within the household, food restriction or weight control can become a mode of self-improvement as well as a form of resistance to parental authority. In a society where the media says a thin body is the ideal body, this sort of food restriction can be considered as self-improvement. With this sort of home life, it seems legitimate that this is another aspect in which the family worships culture and the media